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Obfuscators' Delight

Jul. 29, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers, take heart: When it comes to obfuscation, you are mere novices compared to lexicographers. ...


Lawyers and other professionals are being ripped off by the phone companies with the connivance of the state Legislature. As a...



The End Is Here

Jul. 29, 2000
By Columnist

In Pierotti v. Torian, 81 Cal.App.4th 17 (2000), the appellate court has issued another opinion in support of the finality of ...


Snubbing Parental Child Snatchers

Jul. 29, 2000
By Columnist

In the spring of 1999, the media broadcast the story about the Palm Beach land developer who was arrested and charged for kidn...



'SpeeDee' Trap

Jul. 29, 2000
By Kelly Lee

Terrence A. Beard of Antioch's Law Offices of Terrence A. Beard obtained a $4 million verdict on behalf of eight SpeeDee Oil C...


Bridge to Settlement

Jul. 29, 2000
By Kelly Lee

Almost two years after he survived a deadly tank explosion on the job, in a complicated case with multiple defendants, tens of...



Meyer Turns to Manatt Phelps as Partner

Jul. 29, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

David J. Meyer has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' litigation and employment unit in Los Angeles as a partner. Meyer's o...


Babcock Heads O.C.'s Public Law Center

Jul. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The Public Law Center of Orange County has named Kenneth W. Babcock as its new executive director. Babcock, curren...



Welcoming Trail

Jul. 29, 2000
By Columnist

In three of these cases, the court issued opinions that in some way ameliorated the harsh effects of the 1996 act. ...


Study Shows Increase in Reports of Hate Crimes

Jul. 29, 2000
By David Houston

The number of hate crimes reported in California rose 12.1 percent in 1999, but authorities are unsure how much of that is att...



Lawyer May Face Charges in Deaths of Women

Jul. 29, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Santa Monica police on Monday will present the city attorney with the case of a West Los Angeles lawyer who reportedly drove i...


Couple Pleads Guilty in Charity Scam, Cooperates With DA

Jul. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Prosecutors say they may charge new defendants in the case of a La Verne couple who has pleaded guilty to allegations of obstr...



Pacificare, St. Joseph Reach Temporary Truce

Jul. 29, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A tussle over patient care for hundreds of Pacificare members all but ended Thursday after an agreement was reache...


INS Keeps Daughter, Dying Father Apart

Jul. 29, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Her first mistake was following her solicitor's advice. Her second mistake was being honest. As a result, Deborah Gabbay Aaron...



The final buzzer sounded this week in a San Diego County football coach's long legal battle with his employer when a state app...


California has twice as many people serving time in state prisons for drug offenses as the state's entire prison population 20...



Judge Ellen C. DeShazer and a volunteer team of drug rehabilitation specialists, prosecutors, public defenders, probation offi...


The alternate public defender's office said Thursday it has uncovered a new basis on which it may appeal a client's drug convi...



Rousing Recitation

Jul. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Carefully chosen quotes, statistics, definitions and narration will increase a listeners' ability to comprehend and retain inf...


Summer Associate Partying Not Always Fun

Jul. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Summer-associate parties should be re-titled "three or four uncomfortable hours of forced conversation with colleagues." ...



Court Decides Rare Case on Abandonment

Jul. 28, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a stern warning to public entities through a ruling last week, holding the city of Tho...


Banishing Bias

Jul. 28, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Like most lawyers, I feel passionately about justice and the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The concepts of fai...



Pretext Puzzle

Jul. 28, 2000
By Columnist

If the employer testifies falsely about the reason for the discharge, then the jury may conclude that it is attempting to conc...


Council Puts Nine on Police Commission

Jul. 28, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

RIVERSIDE - The City Council has named nine community leaders to a new citizen Police Review Commission formed in response to ...



Council Considers LAPD Discipline Measure

Jul. 28, 2000
By Chris Ford

A proposed ballot measure that would weaken the statute of limitations on internal Los Angeles Police Department discipline ca...


Deputies Fight County Over Disciplinary Pact

Jul. 28, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Despite having its case dismissed at the trial level, the county's largest law enforcement union continues its fight to force ...



Customs Seizes $40 Million in Ecstasy

Jul. 28, 2000
By Staff Writer

Customs has seized more than 2.1 million doses of the illegal drug Ecstasy with an estimated street value of at least $40 mill...


'Desert Miracle' Author Wheat Dies at 79

Jul. 28, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Francis Millspaugh Wheat, a towering figure in securities law, renowned environmentalist and author of the 1999 book "Californ...



Visiting Judges Often Bail Out 9th U.S. Circuit

Jul. 28, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

A "shadow court" has been at work within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding some of the most significant issues t...


Young Kozinski Follows in Dad's Footsteps

Jul. 28, 2000
By Staff Writer

Perhaps it's only fitting that Alex Kozinski's son would make a federal case out of a jaywalking ticket. Yale Kozinski, whose ...