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SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...


PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road

Dec. 6, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...



Tarnished Shield

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...


More Discord Over Jerry's Guitars

Dec. 6, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...



Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...


Judge Rejects Furrow Victim's Suit

Dec. 6, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...



PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road

Dec. 6, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...


SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...



Ease Limits on Practice, Panel Urges

Dec. 6, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...


Board OKs Contracts Over Officials' Objections

Dec. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...



WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...


Remand Roulette

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...



Media Fights to See Executions

Dec. 6, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...


Long Beach Court May Get New Look

Dec. 6, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...



Pomona Valley Lawyer Led Legal Community

Dec. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...


VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...



Marin Charges Prosecutor With Assault

Dec. 6, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...


SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...



SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...


Unlikely Friendship Changes Lives

Dec. 6, 2001
By Amy Tatko

LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...



GOP Senators Say Tribunal Talks Waste Precious Time

Dec. 6, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...


Tarnished Shield

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...



Remand Roulette

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...


Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...



Procopio Cory Acquires San Diego Firm

Dec. 5, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...


Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...



LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...


Lifers Foevermore

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...



Money Crawl

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...


SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...