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A Ruling Allows Inmates to Sue For Phone Fees

Jan. 12, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - California inmates can sue over a surcharge the state levies on all telephone calls they make from prison, a fed...


Fine Legal Minds Appear as High-Profile Case Chasers

Jan. 11, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Those tiny strips of ballot paper we've come to know as "chads" - dimpled, pregnant and otherwise - seem an apt metaphor for t...



Avoiding Legal Detours

Jan. 11, 2001
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Attempts by the plaintiff's attorney to paint the intersection as "evil" failed, in part, because a directed verdict on govern...


Sheriff to Track 'Racial Profiling'

Jan. 11, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to accept $75,000 in state money to fund the collection a...



LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Sunday for Ralph Torres, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Torres died unexpe...


Another Opening

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

In many ways, entertainment resembles any other area of business law, giving rise to litigation over contract disputes, accusa...



Unpredictability

Jan. 11, 2001
By Staff Writer

In the coming years, intellectual property rights are likely to spark increasingly vigorous debate as their potential value co...


Tinseltown Attorneys

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

A. Barry Cappello won a $54.2 million verdict for his client for breach of contract. Marc A. Karlin won a case that pitted the...



Taking the Initiative

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

Californians have long grappled with the questions raised by ballot initiatives, which have become a routine part of political...


Straits of Ignorance

Jan. 11, 2001

Recently, I was invited to Cuba to do a Web presentation for a joint conference hosted by Cuba's National Union of Cuban Juris...



Miracle Worker

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

Myer J. Sankary embodies an unlikely combination: corporate business experience and cross-cultural sensitivity. His breadth of...


Assuring Fairness

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

Courts continue in their role of bolstering the integrity of the arbitration process while giving arbitrators power to determi...



Millennium Review

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

By Alex Ricciardulli Contrary to public opinion, the new millennium starts this New Year's Day: The U.S. Naval Observatory, t...


Tangled Web

Jan. 11, 2001
By Columnist

Tax advisers are concerned about a new set of proposed regulations, just issued in October, that affect attorneys. The Interna...



Chief, Board Split Over Dog-Bite Policy

Jan. 11, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Whether to tighten the leash on the Los Angeles Police Department's canines prompted debate Tuesday between the ...


SAN DIEGO - The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties is suing the local Department of Heath and Human Services, alleging th...



I-91 Suit Proceeds

Jan. 11, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a ruling that could affect hundreds of thousands of commuters on Interstate 91, a San Bernardino County ...


LOS ANGELES - State Bar officials and a chronic bar critic are scheduled to meet this morning over what the critic charges are...



SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has consented to the involuntary bankruptcy proceedings initiated last month by three of th...


DA Pleads Not Guilty to Beating Ex-Wife's Lover

Jan. 11, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor pleaded not guilty to felony charges Tuesday for allegedly beating his estr...



Federal Bar Honors Six U.S. District Judges

Jan. 11, 2001
By Martin Kruming

SAN DIEGO - The Federal Bar Association will sponsor a dinner Jan. 31 honoring six senior judges of the U.S. District Court in...


9th Refines Law Guiding International Custody Case

Jan. 11, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli media baron won reconsideration Tuesday of his child custody claim based on a broad new interpretat...



By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The dissenters to Supreme Court decisions regularly engage in hyper...


Board of Examiners Approves Airline Deal

Jan. 11, 2001
By Andrea Rosas

By Andrea Rosas Nevada Journal Staff Writer CARSON CITY - The Nevada Board of Examiners has approved a two-year deal with Sou...



By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - For many federal and state prisoners, the Supreme Court's decision ...


By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Tuan Anh Nguyen would not be sitting in a federal detention center ...



Court Strikes 'Migratory Bird Rule'

Jan. 11, 2001
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Handing another important victory to the states, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Tuesday that the...


9th Circuit Reverses Gender-Bias Award

Jan. 11, 2001
By Andrea Rosas

By Andrea Rosas Nevada Journal Staff Writer The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a $420,000 award to a Las Vega...



Diversity's Champion

Jan. 11, 2001
By Contributing Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - It was another 12-hour day at Bank of America for Teveia Barnes, an associate general counsel, when she receiv...


Judicial Selections Send a Message

Jan. 11, 2001
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - When President Clinton used his recess appointment power last month to install Roger Gregory on the 4th U.S. Circ...