Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles / Joined 1989 / Served to 2006

Michael W. Farrell

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Michael W. Farrell was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, who joined the court in 1989. He previously served on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2006 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–
1989	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–

Education

American University

Judicial Record

In our data, Farrell authored 676 published opinions for the court (1989–2018), plus 16 dissents and 61 concurrences. Most cited: Moss v. Stockard (169 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 467 of these were attributed to Farrell by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1990	Moss v. Stockard	580 A.2d 1011	169
1996	Winfield v. United States†	676 A.2d 1	116
1992	Hercules & Co. v. Shama Restaurant Corp.· Concurrence†	613 A.2d 916	110
2002	Larijani v. Georgetown University· Dissent†	791 A.2d 41	108
1990	Washington v. Washington Hospital Center	579 A.2d 177	108
1994	In Re Goffe	641 A.2d 458	107
1990	Washington Medical Center, Inc. v. Holle	573 A.2d 1269	95
2006	Allworth v. Howard University	890 A.2d 194	93
2005	District of Columbia v. Beretta, U.S.A., Corp.†	872 A.2d 633	92
2001	In Re Anderson†	778 A.2d 330	90
2008	EastBanc, Inc. v. Georgetown Park Associates II, L.P.	940 A.2d 996	84
1990	Beckman v. Farmer	579 A.2d 618	83
2002	Phelan v. City of Mount Rainier	805 A.2d 930	77
1994	Bingham v. Goldberg. Marchesano. Kohlman. Inc.	637 A.2d 81	67
1990	In re D.R.M.†	570 A.2d 796	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 754 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Michael W. Farrell on?: Michael W. Farrell was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Sources

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17 years on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).