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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 513 (Judge Robert B. Broadbelt): Courtroom Information

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 513, 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/513/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department 513's courtroom information (Stanley Mosk Courthouse; formerly Department 53): civility and professionalism; settlement; motions (hearing dates reserved on the Court Reservation System); ex parte applications (8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, usually decided in chambers; Local Rule 3.4(l)); court reporters; discovery disputes; the trial preparation order; electronically lodged documents that require the court's action; and less experienced attorneys - with the department's Trial Preparation Order (meeting and conferring; 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 binders; the trial binder).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Stanley Mosk Courthouse > Department 513

Source of truth

COURTROOM INFORMATION FOR DEPARTMENT 513 Judge Robert B. Broadbelt III Judicial Assistant: K. Mason (213) 633-0653 Courtroom Assistant: Cherie E. Vaughn (213) 633-0653 Welcome to Department 513 (formerly Department 53). The court appreciates attorneys’ and self-represented parties’ taking the time to read and comply with the policies and procedures set forth below. 1. Civility and Professionalism

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_513.pdf (452734 bytes, sha256 d4288112e2d4cbe21cf8457eb5b93ef3fb11883246c60eaec8b191d50dc8095b; 15 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. The two-column pleading caption of the trial orders it reproduces is set left cell, then right cell (the “)” column and the box's rule left out). Attached to Judge Robert B. Broadbelt: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Robert B. Broadbelt in Department 513 of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.