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Friday, December 13, 2024

 

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Judge Scheper to Leave L.A. Superior Court

 

By a MetNews Staff Writer

 

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Barbara Marie Scheper’s last day on the bench and her official retirement date will be Dec. 31.

She said on Friday:

“I have been fortunate to have had 24 years on the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. I have worked with fantastic colleagues who are always available for advice and support. I have also worked with incredible members of court staff including judicial assistants and courtroom attendants. Therse hardworking employees are totally dedicated to the court and I could not have done my job without their expertise and diligence.

“All my assignments from my first, in a misdemeanor court in Bellflower, to the felony court in San Fernando and independent civil calendar courts in both Chatsworth and Stanley Mosk, have been challenging and intellectually stimulating. I am grateful to Governor Gray Davis who appointed me, and to his judicial appointments secretary, Burt Pines, who later became my colleague. I could not have asked for a more fulfilling career.

The appointment by Davis came in 2001. Scheper was, at the time, an assistant inspector general for the City of Los Angeles’s Police Commission.

Previously, Scheper was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California from 1991 to 2000 and was an attorney with Latham & Watkins from 1985-91.

Her law degree is from the University of Notre Dame.

On Oct. 24, 2023, Scheper granted judgment on the pleadings in favor of the City of Los Angeles and others in a challenge by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and others to the constitutionality of the “mansion tax,” enacted by voters on Nov. 8, 2022.

Scheper determined that “plaintiffs fail to state facts sufficient to support any claim against any defendant” and determined that any attempt to amend would be futile.

 

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