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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Spring Street Courthouse, Department 2 (Judge Kristin S. Escalante): Courtroom Information (Rev. 04/26)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Spring Street Courthouse, Department 2, 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/SS/courtrooms/2/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department 2's courtroom information (Spring Street Courthouse), an individual calendar, general jurisdiction civil courtroom: the change to its informal discovery conference policy (an IDC strongly encouraged before a motion to compel further responses, no longer required); general information (remote appearances, court reporters, interpreters, accessibility and accommodation); law and motion; discovery motions and informal discovery conferences; ex parte applications (heard at the end of the morning calendar; filed by 10:00 am the court day before); case management; and the department's trial preparation order (amended effective 27 February 2025): meeting and conferring, optional trial briefs, joint witness and exhibit lists, a joint statement to be read to the jury, joint and contested jury instructions, verdict forms, a joint chart of deposition designations, motions in limine, exhibit and trial binders, and court reporters and settled statements.

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California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Spring Street Courthouse > Department 2

Source of truth

Welcome to DEPARTMENT 2 SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE An individual calendar, general jurisdiction, civil courtroom Judge: Hon. Kristin S. Escalante Judicial Assistant: Armando Garcia Courtroom Attendant: Telephone Number: (213) 310-7002 IMPORTANT: CHANGE TO THE COURT’S INFORMAL DISCOVERY CONFERENCE POLICY The court’s informal discovery conference policy has changed. The court STRONGLY ENCOURAGES the p

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_SS_2.pdf (571382 bytes, sha256 1a55f6ddc513fc0d43ab53569fd7c07e34eae041c6b0222229750ef95e90e5c9; 12 pages) assembled in page order: the printed pages composed with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow, drawn-glyph reading), and page 1 (a page scan that also carries a text layer, hidden under the scan or printed over it); pages 4 to 12 (page scans), transcribed by eye from the rendered page images, every page read against the image, with a local machine reading (RapidOCR) as the second reader and, for pages that also carry a hidden text layer, that layer as a third; checkboxes are set as “☐”, blanks and signature lines as a rule of underscores, a two-column caption left cell then right cell, line and page numbers omitted, and notes in brackets. For each composed run, 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. Composed pages 2 and 3 carry Acrobat ClearScan text; each was read against the machine second reader and checked at the page image. Attached to Judge Kristin S. Escalante: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Kristin S. Escalante in Department 2 of the Spring Street Courthouse.