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SAN DIEGO - Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Ikola refused Thursday to set aside a $94.5 million judgment that de...


Windfalls Count in Child Support

Mar. 10, 2001
By Gina Keating

RIVERSIDE - Parents who inherit money while their children are on food stamps must list that one-time windfall as income when ...



New Director for Alameda Bar Group

Mar. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland resident and State Bar veteran Ann Wassam has been named executive director of the Alameda County Bar ...


Lockyer Preparing Proposition 65 Overhaul

Mar. 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is developing a legislative proposal to overhaul the state's groundbreakin...



Patent Associate Running Against Kamena

Mar. 10, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, a Silicon Valley patent law firm associate who lives in Mill Valley, filed Thursday to ru...


Posthumous Video Testimony Raises Issues in Murder Case

Mar. 10, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

INDIO - Peggy Baker died of ovarian cancer more than a year ago. But last month her image filled a courtroom and jurors hung o...



SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge known for his hands-on interest in securities litigation held a highly unusual job interview i...


LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to let Carson establish its own school dis...



Coastal Concern

Mar. 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - While California continues its struggle to keep the lights on, another energy battle of older vintage appears ...


Brobeck Enlists New Technology Partner

Mar. 10, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

IRVINE - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's Irvine outpost has snagged the services of O'Melveny & Myers' corporate transact...



Net Notice

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

An Internet service providers' forum for the exchange of data may violate two exclusive rights of copyright holders.


Littler Adds an Office in Philadephia

Mar. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Littler Mendelson is double-dipping from the Pittsburgh firm that provided the partners for a recently establi...



Lawyers' Tobacco Payday Here

Mar. 9, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The $637.5 million fee award to California lawyers in the national tobacco settlement is either incredible or ...


"How Did You Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search For Identity," By Kevin R. Johnson, Temple University Press, 245 Pa...



Betraying Valid Ballots

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

Californians labor under one of the nation's heaviest tax burdens when local, state and federal taxes are added together. That...


Tech Testimony

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

Technology-augmented trials are faster and more effective than those that don't use multimedia presentations. ...



It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. The Gulf War just had come to an end, and there were "no fly zones" im...


In Touch

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

* Managing Well * By Susan L. Mackey A philosophy professor stood before his class with a large empty mayonnaise jar. He proc...



The Jerk

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

The employer must 'either intentionally create or knowingly permit' the intolerable working conditions. ...


Jury Can't Determine Man's Mental Health

Mar. 9, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury announced Wednesday that it was unable to reach a decision on the mental soundness of a man who raped ...



Investigators Send Charges Against DA to Bar

Mar. 9, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - State investigators have referred their findings of alleged fraud by former Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Long...


SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the civil code's litigation privilege that shields litigants from further l...



Street Gang Injunction Ruling Makes History

Mar. 9, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - In the first ruling of its kind in city history, a Los Angeles judge has declared a Venice man a bona fide membe...


DA Pulls Request for County Resources

Mar. 9, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas late Tuesday withdrew an agenda item asking the Board of Superviso...



Candidates Vow to Cure City Woes

Mar. 9, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Two candidates for Los Angeles mayor told a gathering of lawyers Tuesday night that city government had better p...


Court Decides Policy Covers Flattened Home

Mar. 9, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Say someone flattens your house - nothing left but a slab and some pipes. Do you plead theft or vandalism or som...



SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...


SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...



LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...


Patent Pending

Mar. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...