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Administrative/Regulatory


Throwing the Book at a Crip

Mar. 22, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

MURRIETA - It's a raw, up-close-and-personal look at his life as a member of the Crips. Now, Colton Simpson's critically accla...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - New studies by researchers from Columbia, Princeton and Harvard again found that you...


Litigation


Focus Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - Effective Jan. 1, the Legislature raised the uppermost jurisdictional limit of the sma...


Law Practice


Forum Column - By Daniel M. Kolkey - It's counterintuitive, but true: You have to learn to be a judge before you can learn to ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - As Congress races to adopt some kind of immigration reform, a group of prominent federal judges is asking lawmak...


Appellate Practice


Child-Porn Search Was Legal, Court Says

Mar. 22, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding t...


Intellectual Property


Broad Medical Patent Dispute Perplexes Justices

Mar. 22, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to struggle with weighty intellectual property issues and thorny proce...


Immigration


Outcomes Split in Peruvian Asylum Bids

Mar. 22, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

SAN FRANCISCO - A Peruvian man linked to the torture of members of a violent left-wing political group lost his bid for asylum...


Judges and Judiciary


Sharing Learning Experiences as He Goes

Mar. 22, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

SAN DIEGO - Usually, it's the Superior Court judges who covet a temporary assignment to the appellate court - not the other wa...


Appellate Practice


Defendants Squeak Out of a Hard Place Over Rocks

Mar. 22, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO - The commercial value of three Native American petroglyphs: $800. The archaeological value of three Native Amer...


Criminal


Pellicano Wants to Force Speedy Trial

Mar. 22, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - In an aborted bid to represent himself, celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano recently told a federal judge he...


Education


Teens Get a Reality Check

Mar. 21, 2006
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A big man in a suit swaggered toward a youth wearing a leather coat and ordered him to stand up. "I could kick you...


Education


Despite Being a Professor, Chemerinsky Is Biased

Mar. 21, 2006
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - Paralleling Erwin Chemerinsky's thought in his first paragraph regarding the Supreme Court ("Court Snub...


Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Can unmarried parents stipulate to the termination of...


Judges and Judiciary


Senate Confirms Judge for Riverside

Mar. 21, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The Senate has unanimously confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen G. Larson to fill a vacancy on the federal Dist...


Judges and Judiciary


Continuing Public Service, on the Superior Court

Mar. 21, 2006
By Sarah Garveyn

LOS ANGELES - Gus Gomez is no stranger to public office. He's been a Glendale city councilman as well as Glendale's mayor. So ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Opposes Lawyer Whistle-Blowers

Mar. 21, 2006
By Erin Park

LOS ANGELES - Voicing concern over attorney-client confidentiality, the State Bar has decided to oppose proposed legislation t...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Litigation Bogs Down State's Stem Cell Leap

Mar. 21, 2006
By Kevin Livingston

SAN FRANCISCO - When the elite of San Francisco society gathers at a black tie gala Wednesday to raise money for California's ...


Criminal


Out-of-Court Statements Get a Review

Mar. 21, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court considered Monday whether 911 calls and other out-of-court statements made by crime victim...


Media


Daily Reader Misses the Wide Look

Mar. 20, 2006
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - I am certain you'll be pleased that I am not writing this time to accuse the Daily Journal of having a ...


Criminal


Thought Crimes and Unjust Punishments

Mar. 20, 2006
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - It was a short story in the March 12 edition of the Washington Post - ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Mar. 20, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has tapped Michael E. Meyer to become managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles offices. Meyer, a...


Law Practice


Briefly

Mar. 20, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

DLA ADDS LAND USE LAWYERS - Paul Hastings real estate lawyer Mark Nelson and four associates have decamped to DLA Piper Rudnic...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - By Rachael G. Samberg - Three years ago, in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003) ("Victoria'...


Administrative/Regulatory


Marrying Your Attorney Doesn't Protect Letters

Mar. 20, 2006
By Don Debenedictisn

SANTA ANA - If you're in prison, marrying your lawyer won't protect your letters home from prying government eyes. The 9th U.S...


Education


Law School Makes Interim Dean Permanent

Mar. 20, 2006
By Peter Zuckerman

LOS ANGELES - Kevin L. Cole will become the new dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, effective in April, the sch...


Education


Law Students Help Katrina's Victims

Mar. 20, 2006
By Peter Zuckerman

LOS ANGELES - As homes collapsed and streets transformed into white-water rapids during Hurricane Katrina, second-year law stu...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - During business hours Monday through Friday, Stanley Levy is senior counsel with Manatt Phelps & Phillips. E...


Firm Watch


Lord Bissell Lures Litigator From Kaye Scholer

Mar. 20, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Lord, Bissell & Brook has added litigator Christopher S. Reeder as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Reed...


Criminal


When Heidi Fleiss Was Wiretapped, Nobody Cared

Mar. 20, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Long before Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping scandal shook Hollywood to its core, infamous Tinseltown madam Heidi...