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Photo Finish

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...


Perilous Policy

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...



Smoke This Book: Advice on Avoiding Pot Busts

Nov. 25, 2000
By Staff Writer

Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...


Courtroom Clod

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...



Second Class

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...


Judge Blocks Transfer of Assets From Fraudulent Firm

Nov. 25, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...



Panel Studies LAPD Immigration Policy

Nov. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...


Council OKs Hiring Patricia Glaser

Nov. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...



Personal-Injury Pioneer Toxey Hall Smith Dies

Nov. 25, 2000
By David Houston

Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...


Rampart Juror Denies Misconduct

Nov. 25, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...



A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps from requiring employees to sign an arbitratio...


SACRAMENTO - Insurers of Northridge earthquake victims have petitioned the state Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a n...



More Money Can't Keep Lawyers in Large Firms

Nov. 25, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Even though large law firms are paying associates skyrocketing sums, a recent survey has found that many of these lawyers woul...


S.F. Judge Laurence Kay Elevated to 1st DCA

Nov. 25, 2000
By Staff Writer

Gov. Gray Davis has announced the appointment of six new judges - three appellate court justices and three for the San Diego C...



Appeal Due In Decision On Shifting Tax Funds

Nov. 25, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

An epic battle between local and state government over property tax revenues appears headed for the California Supreme Court. ...


Fed-Up Lawyer Gets Animated

Nov. 25, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A local attorney, weary of what he sees as increasing acrimony in the practice of law, has turned his love of editorial cartoo...



Disability Advocates Bestows Honors

Nov. 23, 2000
By Staff Writer

OAKLAND - Disability Rights Advocates Corp. handed out its 4th Annual Eagle and Turkey Awards Tuesday, saluting corporations t...


Venerable Hillyer & Irwin Stays On

Nov. 23, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Hillyer & Irwin, one of San Diego's oldest law firms, which has experienced a number of shareholder and associate departur...



Former Nanny Sues Pitcher Chuck Finley

Nov. 23, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A live-in nanny who once worked for former Anaheim Angels pitching ace Chuck Finley and his wife, Julie, has sued ...


Public Access

Nov. 23, 2000
By Contributing Writer

On Monday, the public was able to watch a live, televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court on the legal challenge to the m...



Take Out

Nov. 23, 2000
By Columnist

The task force's work has resulted in legislation that clarifies a judge's authority to utilize special discovery references. ...


In a legal market that's producing more corporate work than many firms say they can handle, Cooley Godward didn't forget the l...



San Francisco Judge Lenard Louie has declined to join a handful of judges around the country who have permitted hearings desig...


Prop. 21 Challenge Is Rejected With Nary a Peep

Nov. 23, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

In the latest legal skirmish over Proposition 21, a San Francisco judge on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the newly a...



Judge Reverses Rape Verdicts as Hearsay-Based

Nov. 23, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

He preyed on women he met at church, women whose faith or naivet led them to counsel the troubled man before he attacked them,...


Judge Sentences Man For Dumping Manure

Nov. 23, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Pig Man may not be bringing home the bacon for a while. Sean McKinney Diener, 20, a Layton, Utah, animal rights activist who w...



Litigator R. Edward Brown, 70, Succumbs

Nov. 23, 2000
By Tina Spee

Private services will take place for R. Edward Brown, trial attorney and the first president of the San Fernando Valley Crimin...


Doctor Loses Battle Over Gag Order

Nov. 23, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

Hollywood's nip-and-tuck specialist, Steven Hoefflin, has lost the latest legal battle to prevent further dissemination of all...



Last month, a new lawyer in one of Morrison & Foerster's 18 offices became No. 1,000 for the San Francisco-based law firm....


ACLU Sues Police for Rousting of Homeless

Nov. 23, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Raising the issue of where homeless people can sit or stand, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern Califor...