These 640 rules apply across Los Angeles Superior Court. Where this judge's own standing orders above address the same topic, the judge's requirement controls.
All electronic filings must comply with California Rules of Court Rule 2.257 (electronic signature requirements).
Referee reports for pretrial matters must include a place for the judge to enter an order if accepted.
Paternity questionnaire must be completed by mother and father and filed with the court in all dependency cases.
Electronic filings received between 12:00 am and 11:59:59 pm on a court day are deemed filed that day; filings on non-court days deemed filed next court day.
If e-filing fails due to service interruption, non-filer transmission error, or post-receipt processing failure, the court may order the document deemed filed as of the attempted transmission date.
Ex parte applications and supporting documents must be e-filed by 10:00 a.m. the court day before the hearing.
Parties must file documents with court and provide copies to temporary judge/referee.
Copy of completed LACIV 109 form must be served with summons and complaint or petition.
Motions to relate cases must be served on all parties listed in the Notice of Related Cases with proof of service attached.
Represented litigants must electronically file all documents through an approved Electronic Filing Service Provider (EFSP).
Certain document types (peremptory challenges, bonds, trial exhibits, certain ex parte applications, conditionally sealed documents) are prohibited from electronic filing.
Notice of Lodgment must be electronically filed; attachments to Notice of Lodgment must be lodged in paper form.
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Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki is a judge on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, the state trial court serving Los Angeles County. The court handles a broad range of civil, criminal, family, and probate matters.
Judge Iwasaki's procedures are published through the court's general rules.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Parties must arrange for their own court reporters.
Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki's rules specify how parties may contact chambers. Trial counsel must appear in person at the final status conference and on the trial date.
Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki's rules specify what an adjournment or extension request must include. Requests for continuances may be made by stipulation and proposed order or, if no agreement is possible after good faith discussion among counsel in-person or by telephone, by noticed motion.
The rule addresses filing timing, filing status, or cure windows. Law and motion matters are heard Tuesday through Friday at 9:00 a.m.
Trial counsel must appear in person at the final status conference and on the trial date.
Law and motion matters are heard Tuesday through Friday at 9:00 a.m.
Ex parte applications are heard each day at 8:30 a.m.
Parties must arrange for their own court reporters.
If a party or witness requires an interpreter, counsel must arrange for a certified interpreter.
Cases originating in Orange or San Diego counties will be returned to their county of origin for trial.
Counsel must call Department 14 as soon as possible to take a matter off calendar and then file and serve a notice that the matter is off calendar.
Requests for continuances may be made by stipulation and proposed order or, if no agreement is possible after good faith discussion among counsel in-person or by telephone, by noticed motion.
Before filing a discovery motion, counsel must meet and confer in person or by telephone to attempt to resolve or at least narrow the dispute.
If the dispute remains unresolved, counsel should immediately call Department 14 to schedule an Informal Discovery Conference.
Three court days before the Informal Discovery Conference, the parties must file a statement of no more than three pages describing the dispute.
If the dispute is not resolved at the Informal Discovery Conference, counsel may file a discovery motion.
The court tolls the time to file a discovery motion from the date a party schedules the Informal Discovery Conference to the date of the Informal Discovery Conference.
The Court usually posts tentative rulings at least one business day before the hearing.
After the trial judge is identified, counsel will have 20 minutes to exercise any challenge pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6.
Cases may trail, or the trial date may be continued, if the parties are not ready for trial, if trial counsel has a good faith basis for being unavailable and no other counsel is available to try the case, or if no trial court is available.
Department 14 may determine that a case will remain in Department 14 for trial and related proceedings.