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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Van Nuys Courthouse East, Department T (Judge Shirley K. Watkins): Courtroom Information (effective June 2024)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Van Nuys Courthouse East, Department T, 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/NW/courtrooms/T/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department T's courtroom information (Van Nuys Courthouse East), a civil independent calendar court: general information (courtroom hours); alternative dispute resolution (the court's settlement programs); ex parte applications and requests for temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions; hearings (all hearings, including trial, final status conferences, law and motion and ex partes, at 8:30 a.m.); the morning calendar; motions (reserved on the Court Reservation System, other than motions in limine); informal discovery conferences; interpreters; jury fees; trial and final status conferences (trials typically set Monday - Thursday at 8:30 a.m.; final status conferences 7-10 days before); and the final status conference orders (the documents filed and lodged, motions in limine, and compliance).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Van Nuys Courthouse East > Department T

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL INDEPENDENT CALENDAR DEPARTMENT NW-T JUDGE SHIRLEY K. WATKINS COURTROOM INFORMATION WWW.LACOURT.CA.GOV (effective June 2024) COURT WEBSITE: www.lacourt.ca.gov LOCAL RULES: www.lacourt.org/courtrules GENERAL INFORMATION: Court Address: 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van Nuys, CA 91401 (Van Nuys East Building) Courtroom Telephone Number: (818) 901-4612 Courtroom Hours

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_NW_T.pdf (438247 bytes, sha256 6c0030abb66e03a624389fe83b538181ecb19d14e310fac87e1e1ca228e2b8df; 7 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. Its pages carry Acrobat ClearScan text (glyphs traced from a scan, character codes guessed); each was read against a machine second reader (RapidOCR) and checked at the page image. Glyph codes the file maps wrongly are set as printed: U+00AD as “-” (U+002D). 2 places where the file's character codes contradict the print, set as printed after the proofs and checked at the page image: “MONDAY - THURSDAY at 8:30 а.m. Final Status” set as “MONDAY - THURSDAY at 8:30 a.m. Final Status” (page 6: the ClearScan code is a Cyrillic small a; the print has a.m.); “motions in Iimine and that they” set as “motions in limine and that they” (page 6: the print has a lower-case l (the height of the h and l beside it)). Attached to Judge Shirley K. Watkins: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Shirley K. Watkins in Department T of the Van Nuys Courthouse East.