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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Norwalk Courthouse, Department C (Judge Lee W. Tsao): Courtroom Information (05/30/2025)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Norwalk Courthouse, Department C, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles; served by the court's Courtroom Information application (https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/apps/courtroom-information) at https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/web3/courthouse/api/courthouses/courtroom-information/courthouse/SE/courtrooms/C/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department C's courtroom information (Norwalk Courthouse): courtroom hours; general information - remote appearances through LACourtConnect, help for self-represented litigants, interpreters, court reporters (Form FW-020 for fee-waiver requests) and accommodations (Form MC-410); ex parte applications (check in at 8:30 a.m.; reviewed in chambers); case management conferences (9:00 a.m. daily; the parties meet and confer no later than 30 calendar days before); law and motion (9:30 a.m. daily; hearing dates reserved on the Court Reservation System and the motion filed within three business days); informal discovery conferences (strongly encouraged in lieu of discovery motions); the court's settlement programs; and trial preparation (a court reporter or a joint daily summary; final status conferences under Local Rule 3.25(f), lead trial counsel attending).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Norwalk Courthouse > Department C

Source of truth

COURTROOM INFORMATION DEPARTMENT C JUDGE: Lee Tsao JUDICIAL ASSISTANT: Kevin Caudill COURTROOM ASSISTANT: Eric Armenta LOCATION: Norwalk Courthouse, 3rd Floor TELEPHONE NUMBER: (562) 345-3702 EMAIL: Nordeptse-c@lacourt.org COURTROOM HOURS: 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. GENERAL INFORMATION Remote appearances may be scheduled through LACourtConnect at https://my.lacourt.org/laccwe

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: May 30, 2025
Last verified: September 29, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-los-angeles-2026-09-29

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-29 (California T3 Los Angeles build 2026-09-29) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-los-angeles/dept/CourtroomInformation_SE_C.pdf (149030 bytes, sha256 183f3f4f6ddb28eb5cad3d3f9a4013d2bd69139d102461d89835ef16a3eedbab; 4 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow, drawn-glyph reading): page numbers, pleading line numbers and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the sheet's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only), proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) and proof 3 (same characters as the glyphs drawn on the page) all pass. 1 documented layout fix (whitespace or line order only; the proofs hold). Attached to Judge Lee W. Tsao: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Lee W. Tsao in Department C of the Norwalk Courthouse.