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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Santa Monica Courthouse, Department J (Judge Susan Bryant-Deason): Courtroom Information

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Santa Monica Courthouse, Department J, 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/SM/courtrooms/J/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department J's courtroom information (Santa Monica Courthouse): courtroom hours; ex parte applications (Monday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m., Friday at 9:00 a.m.); remote appearances through LACourtConnect (sign in by 8:15 a.m.); motions (hearing dates reserved on the Court Reservation System; heard Monday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m. and Friday at 9:00 a.m.); courtesy copies (a courtesy copy courtroom); and trials - the trial documents, starting with the operative pleadings, and other trial guidelines (jury selection, the lectern and approaching witnesses, objections, witnesses, reading discovery responses and deposition transcripts, visual aids at opening statement, exhibits) - with the department's standing order re motions to compel further responses: an informal discovery conference before any motion to compel further responses is heard (three agreed dates, a Tuesday or Thursday at 10:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m.; meeting and conferring; a joint brief of less than five pages two court days before).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Santa Monica Courthouse > Department J

Source of truth

LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT SANTA MONICA COURTHOUSE, DEPARTMENT J COURTROOM INFORMATION HON. SUSAN BRYANT-DEASON GENERAL COURTROOM INFORMATION Courtroom telephone: (310)-255-1855 Courtroom Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. FILINGS: All parties are to comply with the First Amended General Order re Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil dated May 3, 2019. Courtesy copies are re

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: —
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_SM_J.pdf (265612 bytes, sha256 6a1d2d5bb3fb08f0132de0ff39605901afe073a0abd03b61f232d6c63dbcd085; 9 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. Attached to Judge Susan Bryant-Deason: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Susan Bryant-Deason in Department J of the Santa Monica Courthouse.