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Advocates Sue to Halt Rehab Clinic's Closure

Mar. 14, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...


San Jose Judge's Decisions Are Scrutinized

Mar. 14, 2003
By Craig Anderson

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...



SLA Inmate Appeals Her Term Hike

Mar. 14, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...


Signs of Settlement On Offshore Drilling

Mar. 14, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...



Defense Attorneys Want Cops' Files Reviewed

Mar. 14, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...


Misconduct-Tainted Case Ends in Conviction

Mar. 14, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...



Lawyers' Punitives Before High Court

Mar. 14, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...


Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...



WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...


Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...



Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...


Taking Charge

Mar. 13, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...



LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...


In Check

Mar. 13, 2003

Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...



Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities

Mar. 13, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...


League's Award Catches UCLA Lawyer by Surprise

Mar. 13, 2003
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...



LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...


Battle Rages for Right To Painting by Picasso

Mar. 13, 2003
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...



Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...


A Judge Who Pays Meticulous Attention

Mar. 13, 2003
By Karen Coleman

FAIRFIELD - The courtroom of Judge Ramona Garrett is an island of civility in the rough-and-tumble world of Solano County crim...



Legal Luminaries Defend Quattrone

Mar. 13, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, facing civil and criminal investigations for alleged "spinn...


ASSOCIATED PRESS CALABASAS - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is joining the legal challenge by opponents of the 3,050-home Ahma...



By Tyler Cunningham Nevada Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego realtors violated federal antitrust laws when they ...


Judge Served as Navy Pilot in World War II

Mar. 12, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Mark Soden died Friday of pneumonia, bringing to a close the final chap...



Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One of the more esoteric issues of famil...


Playing Unfair

Mar. 12, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Nancy Hogshead-Makar - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688, the feder...



SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could result in significantly higher electricity rates for consumers in California, a federal ...


Slain Gangster's Family Sues City

Mar. 12, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The family of a 16-year-old gang member gunned down on rival gang members' turf just minutes after being droppe...



WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can...


Column By Garry Abrams - Buried deep in "The National Strategy for Homeland Security" report issued by the White House last ye...