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Scary: CBS Isn't Alone in Gonzalez TV Movie

Apr. 22, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Ante up, troops! The thousands of L.A. family law and immigration attorneys who have been avid...


SAN DIEGO - Speaking out for the first time about a golfing conversation that has embroiled him in an investigation by the Com...



Rampart Officers Invoking the Fifth

Apr. 22, 2000
By Michael D. Harris

At least three police officers who appeared Thursday before the grand jury investigating the Rampart corruption scandal invoke...


Staying Afloat

Apr. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Michael L. Donovan and Andrew W. Miller Companies and governments spent hundreds of billions o...



Puppets Will Face off in Defamation, Libel Suit

Apr. 21, 2000
By Pamela A. Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A miscreant, profane, cigar-chomping, sexist, rubberized hand-puppet dog named Triumph may soon find himself a...


Swan Song to Tune of $25M Settlement

Apr. 21, 2000
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A giant Japanese computer company agreed to pay $25 million to a Sunnyvale electronics firm to settle a lengthy leg...



The Daily Journal Is Honored for Paez Article

Apr. 21, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County recently honored the Daily Journal for its in-depth report on the j...


Dicta: Movie Review By Paul Frizler In "Rules of Engagement," the U.S. government subjects a 30-year Marine, Col. Terry Childe...



Policy Punctuality

Apr. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich Insurance policies often contain specific requirements about when certain acts m...


Mistaken Identity

Apr. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Harvey Gee The time has come to re-evaluate the influence of race on witness identification. A growing body of resea...



Forum: By Sandra Waite On Tuesday, the state Assembly Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on AB2808. This legislation, if ...


Commission to Depose S.D. Lawyer

Apr. 21, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer involved in a $100 million dollar lawsuit will be interviewed next week under oath by the Commission on J...



Superior Court Is Facing Crisis With Vacancies

Apr. 21, 2000
By Jean Guccione

The Los Angeles County Superior Court could have as many as 25 judicial vacancies by the end of May, the presiding judge said ...


Prosecutors Want to Dismiss Another Six Cases

Apr. 21, 2000
By Michael Harris

In what will bring to 66 the number of cases thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, Los Angeles Cou...



A Kurdish physician, imprisoned in the United States for more than three years, accused of being a national security threat, t...


Cop Killer: 'Eye for an Eye'

Apr. 21, 2000
By Jason W. Armstrong

SANTA ANA - Orange County jurors took just half an hour Wednesday to reach a recommendation that convicted cop killer Hung Tha...



Doctors' Local

Apr. 20, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Health Care Law By John H. Douglas and Clare Richardson The phenomenon often referred to as "unionization" amon...


Latham' Sonnenschein Makes Lateral Move

Apr. 20, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Edward Sonnenschein Jr., head of Latham & Watkins' corporate department, has moved over to become co-chair of the firm's v...



A Clerk's Clerk

Apr. 20, 2000
By Martin Kruming

San Diego Watch: A memorial service was held April 12 in Escondido for Bill Luddy , the first clerk of the U.S. District Court...


A Reminder at Passover to Celebrate Liberation for All

Apr. 20, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Forum: By Rabbi Eli Hecht Every once in a while, you read or hear an incredible story from World War II and wonder if it's tru...



Bias Hunt

Apr. 20, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Naomi Lopez Bauman The high-tech revolution has driven the economy into unprecedented growth, low unemployment, new-...


S.D. Wages War on Date-Rape Drug

Apr. 20, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Timed to coincide with spring break for thousands of college and high school students, the initial phase of a publ...



SAN FRANCISCO - An attempt finally to launch the first part of a historic effort to protect water quality in the Sacramento-Sa...


The economic growth that has boosted the fortunes of the affluent in recent years has trickled down to the city of Los Angeles...



Without comment Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a plan to build a $22.3 million police station in the San Ferna...


Stopped By the Cops

Apr. 20, 2000
By Chris Ford

In May, a Los Angeles Police Department anti gang officer pulled over, searched and accused Los Angeles teacher Carlos Gonzale...



Paradise Uncorked

Apr. 20, 2000
By John Roemer

William P. Jaeger produces acclaimed vintages at his Freemark Abbey winery in Napa Valley, and that's not all he's fermenting....


Delay Sought In Deportation Of Drug Dealer

Apr. 20, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Federal prosecutors have interceded with immigration authorities to delay the deportation of a convicted drug dealer because h...



Landels Ripley Is 'Realigning' In Firm Merger

Apr. 20, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

SAN FRANCISCO - Landels, Ripley & Diamond has confirmed that it is in merger discussions with an unnamed firm and plans to...


Cop Killer Causes Ruckus in Court

Apr. 19, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Convicted cop killer Hung Thanh Mai shouted expletives and overturned a counsel table before being tackled to the ...