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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 400 (Judge Dean J. Kitchens): Courtroom Information

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 400, 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/LAM/courtrooms/400/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department 400's courtroom information (Stanley Mosk Courthouse): pre-trial information - ex parte applications (Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m.), motions (hearing dates reserved through the court reservation system), discovery motions (an informal discovery conference strongly encouraged; motions to compel further responses heard on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays); and trial procedures - trials usually set for Mondays at 8:30 a.m., final status conferences usually the Friday ten days before at 8:30 a.m., jury selection, witnesses and the trial day's schedule, exhibits, jury instructions and courtroom decorum - with the court's questions for all prospective jurors and a sample exhibit list.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Stanley Mosk Courthouse > Department 400

Source of truth

COURTROOM INFORMATION JUDGE: Dean J. Kitchens JUDICIAL ASSISTANT: Juliete Ramirez COURTROOM ASSISTANT: Martha Quinteros COURT REPORTER: None DEPARTMENT 400: 4th Floor, Stanley Mosk Courthouse 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 TELEPHONE NUMBER: (213) 633-0150 COURTROOM HOURS: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PRE-TRIAL INFORMATION EX PARTES: Ex parte applications are heard Monday through Friday at

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_LAM_400.pdf (209803 bytes, sha256 53827efa7875cd218752225b6125307cd32c87c90c1ab09ccb90a26e01a352b3; 8 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 Dean J. Kitchens: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Dean J. Kitchens in Department 400 of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.