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DMV Hearings Circumvent the Constitution

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By Edwin B. Stegman. Department of Motor Vehicles' driving-under-the-influence license-suspension hearings are a travesty of j...


Number of Women Rises at Boalt Hall

Aug. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

The University of California, Boalt Hall, on Friday released its statistics for the fall 2000 first-year class.



Insatiable Federal Appetite

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By John C. Eastman. Our nation's founders feared that the consolidation of power in a central government would be dangerous to...


Accident Victim Gets $21 Million

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. On Aug. 17, the...



S.D. Jury Finds Genzler Guilty

Aug. 28, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- David James Genzler walked from the courtroom Friday guilty of involuntary manslaughter but free and likely to re...


Judge Tosses Man's 'Peeping Tom' Charges

Aug. 28, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has dismissed "peeping tom" charges against a man - even though he was caught allegedly vid...



Ex-Kings Owner to Turn Over $750,000

Aug. 28, 2000
By David Houston

An injunction has been entered against former Los Angeles Kings owner Jeffrey P. Sudikoff and two other men accused of lying i...


Attorney Steven H. Spindel, 50, Dies of Cancer

Aug. 28, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Services took place Friday for attorney Steven H. Spindel, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Goldschmid, Silver & Spin...



Mom Sues County Over Son's Death

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The mother of a man shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after an early morning car chase last year claims in a wrong...


Recall Sponsors Target Marin Judges

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...



Loyola Names David Burcham 15th Dean of the Law School

Aug. 28, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...


Munger Tolles Beats Jones Day to Capture Landau Cup

Aug. 28, 2000
By Contributing Writer

It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...



Family Law Courtroom Venom Rises Rapidly

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...


Bar Reviewing Attorney Discipline System

Aug. 28, 2000
By Don Debenedictisn

SAN FRANCISCO - Conscious of the widespread feeling that the attorney discipline system is too harsh on minor offenses, the St...



Hearing Exposes Plight of Women in L.A.

Aug. 28, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Conditions for women in Los Angeles haven't changed much in the past 29 years. When Connie McFall, executive director of Rainb...


Two defendants in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a permanently brain-damaged foster child are opposing an $800,000 settlement ...



Lawyers Behaving Badly: Beware Consequences

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist


SACRAMENTO - A controversial racial-profiling bill apparently has died in the state Legislature after its author pulled it Thu...



In Retrospect

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By Alex Ricciarduilli. A remarkable change might occur soon in California law concerning probation and parole searches. The Ca...


Generation Gap

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By George W. Brewster Jr. I just zipped through my 42nd birthday, putting me solidly in what I have heard described as a lawye...



Settlement Reached Over Twin Towers' Defects

Aug. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

The St. Louis architectural firm that designed Los Angeles County's Twin Towers Correctional Facility could pay $10.6 million ...


City Attorney Seeks Set-Aside of Verdict

Aug. 25, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The Los Angeles city attorney will ask Judge Malcolm Mackey to set aside Wednesday's $1.5 million verdict awarded to Raymond W...



Misconduct Spurs Manslaughter Plea

Aug. 25, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Saying that they accepted responsibility for taking part in a gang summit they knew could lead to violence, four m...


Nash's Next Big Show Awaits Date

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

Attention prosecutors on the Organized Crime Strike Force in the U.S. attorney's office: Eddie Nash has been known to use some...



Injuries in Accident Win Teacher $2.8 Million

Aug. 25, 2000
By Tamara Scott

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $2.8 million to a 48-year-old school teacher who suffered serious head and neck ...


A man who claims that disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez and two other Rampart cops burst into his home ...



Poll Shows Cooley Leading Garcetti for DA

Aug. 25, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The latest sampling of voters on the question of who should be Los Angeles County's district attorney - two-term incumbent Gil...


Family Settles Lawsuit Against McDonald's

Aug. 25, 2000
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Twelve members of a Los Angeles family who claimed to have been turned away from a McDonald's restaurant beca...



Group Sues to Stop Reopening Of Oil Refinery

Aug. 25, 2000
By David Houston

An environmental watchdog group on Thursday sued to block televangelist Pat Robertson's charitable trust from reopening a Sant...


SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of working on various proposals to reform the appellate process, a specially appointed task ...