Los Angeles Superior Court
Career Highlights: Retired 04/15/2020, elevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2000; appointed to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, 1999; senior research attorney, California Court of Appeal, 4th District, Santa Ana, 1995-99; associate, shareholder, Breidenbach, Huchting & Hamblet, Los Angeles, 1984-95
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1984
Career Highlights: Retired 04/15/2020, elevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2000; appointed to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, 1999; senior research attorney, California Court of Appeal, 4th District, Santa Ana, 1995-99; associate, shareholder, Breidenbach, Huchting & Hamblet, Los Angeles, 1984-95
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1984
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When a dispute arises between neighbors fuming over property boundaries or roommates unable to deal with living in close quarters, police often get called in and, absent blood and bruises, send the involved parties to civil harassment court. Such a decision, said civil harassment Judge Richard E. Rico, 54, in Los Angeles Superior Court, is almost always the wrong one. "It requi... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When a dispute arises between neighbors fuming over property boundaries or roommates unable to deal with living in close quarters, police often get called in and, absent blood and bruises, send the involved parties to civil harassment court. Such a decision, said civil harassment Judge Richard E. Rico, 54, in Los Angeles Superior Court, is almost always the wrong one. "It requi... (continued)
