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Apple Polishers

Sep. 9, 2000
By Columnist

By Douglas G. Carnahan. Court reporters can make witnesses and lawyers look like fools or champions of articulateness. ...


Teacher Files Suit Over Student Slurs

Sep. 9, 2000
By Ed Kimble

A teacher at Palisades High School filed a sexual harassment suit Thursday claiming the school district failed to protect her ...



Inmate Gets 25 Years for Threatening Judge

Sep. 9, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A two-strike prison inmate, additionally convicted in July of threatening to kill a San Diego County Superior Cour...


SACRAMENTO - One-half of a measure signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis contains the largest single amount ever directe...



New Book Champions Negotiation in Disputes

Sep. 9, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Hoping to influence attorneys, judges and clients to resolve disputes through more effective communications and to create valu...


New Rampart Payout Given City Approval

Sep. 9, 2000
By Chris Ford

The city has been hit with 71 lawsuits alleging wrongdoing by Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of corruption in ...



Ex-Conservator Pleads No Contest to Theft

Sep. 9, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A former court-appointed conservator and trustee accused of stealing nearly $2 million from estates in a complex money-jugglin...


The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Justice Louise Arbour, spok...



Hollywood's Newest Spy Story

Sep. 9, 2000
By Columnist

By Ross Johnson. Before The Eye gets too far into the news involving "Dr. Wen Ho Lee: The Movie," let's look at an Internet Mo...


Settlement of lawsuits against the state-appointed conservator and bankruptcy attorneys the conservator hired for a failing he...



Man Sentenced for Assault on Lawyer

Sep. 9, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris on Thursday sentenced a Reseda gardener who brutally raped an attorney on New ...


Record Promoter Gets 50 Months for Extortion

Sep. 9, 2000
By David Houston

Record promoter and reputed mob soldier Joseph Isgro was sentenced Thursday to 50 months in federal prison and ordered to pay ...



Feds Abused Grand Jury, Say Furrow Attorneys

Sep. 9, 2000
By David Houston

Federal prosecutors have abused the grand jury in the case of Buford O. Furrow Jr. by asking witnesses inappropriate questions...


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a home builder may be sued for construction defec...



Beanie Toy Collectors Sue Happiest Place on Earth

Sep. 9, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - They said they visited the Magic Kingdom simply to exchange several dozen of Disney's version of the popular Beani...


Ex-Times Lawyer McDaniel Joins Katten Muchin Zavis

Sep. 9, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Katherine McDaniel, former director of intellectual property for Times Mirror Co. and a member of its newly dispersed legal de...



SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription...


Good Sport

Sep. 9, 2000
By Ruchi Gupta

One of the most important lessons Jill J. Chasson has learned from competitive athletics is one she applies everyday in her l...



Regulation or Ransom?

Sep. 8, 2000
By Columnist

By Michael M. Berger. The city made an error by assuming that its professed good intentions would shield it from constitutiona...


Club Challenges Contribution Rule

Sep. 8, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

IRVINE - Saying that a federal judge's ruling has unjustly blocked it from contributing to candidates for the Irvine City Coun...



Spin Report By John M. Curtis. Raining on Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph I. Lieberman's faith-crusade, the Anti...


Unpromising Protest

Sep. 8, 2000
By Columnist

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Name one person who has said, "I used to believe in clear-cutting, but my consciousness was raised b...



Judicial Inspiration

Sep. 8, 2000
By Columnist

The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given by Richard M. Mosk before the California Supreme Court on Jan. 7. For the...


Important Accrual

Sep. 8, 2000
By Columnist

By Douglas Smith, W. Scott Shepard and Arthur F. Coon. Under general negligence principles, architects, general contractors an...



Bar's Special Master Lui Completes His Duties

Sep. 8, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

Months after it was supposed to end, Elwood Lui's post as the Supreme Court's special master overseeing the State Bar discipli...


Pacific Bell, Domestic Violence Shelter Settle

Sep. 8, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

Pacific Bell has settled a claim that the company illegally published the confidential address of a domestic violence shelter ...



Rampart Papers Remain Under a Protective Order

Sep. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Superior Court judge has left in place a protective order on documents in the case against four Los Angeles Police Departmen...


DENVER - Based entirely on evidence collected by a jailhouse lawyer, a Colorado judge has ordered a special prosecutor to look...



DA Seeks Stiffer Penalties for Evading Officers

Sep. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Wednesday said the time has come to stiffen penalties for felony and misd...


Public Interest Program Expands in State

Sep. 8, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

The National Association for Public Interest Law announced Wednesday the expansion of the nation's largest postgraduate legal ...