Legal Ground Zero

Debtors and creditors battered by the collapse of the financial markets seek relief each week from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond.

Sheri Bluebond

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central (Los Angeles)

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By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Each morning, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond walks into her downtown Los Angeles courtroom and is quietly reminded of the on-going financial crisis.

Bluebond's docket is bursting with some 4,288 cases. About 3,800 of those involve bankruptcy pleadings filed in Riverside County, a vast swath of suburbia with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation.

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