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Focus (Forum & Focus)


Listen Up: Make Rules for Driving While Talking

Apr. 28, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Employment Column - By Brad Grabske - Drivers who use cell phones or PDAs increase their risk of accidents 400 times. And thei...


Government


Prison Bill Headed to Governor

Apr. 28, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to reduce prison overcrowding was rushed through the California Legislature Thursday with little publi...


Civil Rights


Interrogation Was Legal, Jury Decides

Apr. 28, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - An Oxnard police officer did not violate an injured farmworker's rights by interrogating him in an ambulance and...


Criminal


When Iraq Veterans Commit Crimes

Apr. 28, 2007
By Laura Ernden

When soldiers come back from war with pyschological damage, it's not surprising that some of them get in trouble with the law....


Judges and Judiciary


DA Seeks Removal of Judge From Case for Bias

Apr. 28, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

RIVERSIDE - Three months ago, Riverside Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbarger slammed District Attorney Rod Pacheco in an op...


Constitutional Law


Justices OK Prior Restraint of Defamation

Apr. 28, 2007
By John Roemer

The law can order a Newport Beach woman to stop lying about her neighbor without violating her free-speech rights, a divided C...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Despite widespread assertions that private shareholder litigation is declining, a study released Thursday conclu...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The Wages of Rest

Apr. 28, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Focus Column – By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson – Employers who fail to heed the state Supreme Court’s new proclamation ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - As aid agencies scramble to get food and medicine to millions of refugees from war-torn countries worldwide, a...


Judges and Judiciary


Mediator Cuts Through Emotional Red Tape

Apr. 27, 2007
By Anne Marie Ruff

At the tender age of 34, Melinda Johnson was the first woman appointed to the bench in Ventura County.


California Courts of Appeal


Bid to Disqualify MoFo Falls Short

Apr. 27, 2007
By Laura Ernden

Law firms can be disqualified from lawsuits for having unfair inside knowledge about the enemy. ...


Judicial Profile


ModelJurist

Apr. 27, 2007
By Anat Rubinn

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Steven R. Van Sicklen never imagined he’d find his perfect job supervising the crimina...


Litigation


DNA Dilemma: Privacy vs. Evidence

Apr. 27, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

Rock Harmon, senior Alameda County deputy district attorney, is trying to sell prosecutors across the state on a DNA search te...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Removes Monterey Jurist, Cites Threats

Apr. 27, 2007
By Max Follmer

Citing "an egregious and persistent pattern of misconduct," the state's judicial-discipline panel booted Monterey County Super...


LOS ANGELES - When the Harriet Buhai Family Law Center opened in South Central Los Angeles in 1982, few in the public-interest...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Veteran firefighter Lewis Bressler said that, after 35 years on the job, he was forced into retirement after he ...


Because of a complicated web of jurisdictional issues and an attitude of indifference from state and federal law enforcement, ...


Law Practice


Bound by Intent

Apr. 27, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Focus Column - By Alan Yockelson - An ‘agreement to agree’ is not a contract. But a letter of intent can be. The leading case ...


Law Practice


Thomas Raises Surprise Issue in Abortion Case

Apr. 27, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The most important opinion from last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the federal ba...


Web Exclusive - Jeannine Yoo Sano has left Dewey Ballantine to join Howrey's Palo Alto office as a partner in intellectual pro...


Corporate


SACRAMENTO - California ranks the sixth-worst state in the nation for its litigation climate, in a survey measuring the percep...


Government


Just the Beginning

Apr. 27, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Forum Column - By Susan Estrich - With the Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold a federal ban on a method of abortion,...


California Courts of Appeal


Children's Center Conflict Ruling Overturned

Apr. 27, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles should not have been disqualifie...


Corporate


SAN JOSE - Five Apple Inc. board members on Wednesday dismissed assertions by the company's former chief financial officer tha...


Law Practice


WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered recently in Washington to launch their latest push for patent reform, pr...


U.S. Supreme Court


Roberts Court Casts Doubt on Campaign Law

Apr. 27, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a case that could significantly weaken federal campaign-finance laws before the 2008 election, the U.S. Suprem...


Entertainment & Sports


Barry L. Hirsch, one of Hollywood's top deal-maker lawyers, is being honored tonight by the Beverly Hills Bar Association as t...


CHINO - In a highly unusual move, a San Bernardino County judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a Korean-American man c...


Criminal


Law Professor Faces Child Porn Charge

Apr. 26, 2007
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have charged a former New York law professor with child pornography for images found on a ...


Criminal


DA Seeks Witness Protection Funds

Apr. 26, 2007
By Hurley

WASHINGTON - Still stung by the murder of a witness her office was supposed to protect, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala...