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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 4

Jan. 5, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

CITY OF INDUSTRY - Glimcher Realty Trust, a Columbus, Ohio-based real estate investment trust, purchased the 1.2 million-squar...


International


Briefly

Jan. 4, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

GOODBYE GUAM - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it's out of the business of hearing state cases fr...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals

Jan. 4, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Applied Biosystems Group , a unit of Applera Corp. , announced it has agreed to acquire the research products di...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Partners at the Los Angeles-based law firms Stephan Oringher Richman & Theodora and Miller & Holguin ha...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 3

Jan. 4, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

MULTIFAMILY HOLLYWOOD - GMAC Institutional Advisors and Security Poperties Inc., a joint venture, purchased the Serravella Apa...


Law Practice


Pursuing Environmental Justice

Jan. 4, 2006
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Around the summer of 2003, someone took a clandestine trip to a part of San Francisco that tourists rarely fr...


International


Forum Column - By Maria Blanco - In late October 2005, I traveled to Santiago, Chile, to represent the American Bar Associatio...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled that an Ethiopian couple should be granted asylum in the United ...


Firm Watch


Brown Raysman Expands Into Silicon Valley

Jan. 4, 2006
By Anna Oberthurn

SAN FRANCISCO - New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner is expanding its West Coast presence with a move into ...


Appellate Practice


9th Circuit Reverses Police Liability Ruling

Jan. 4, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel has granted a reprieve to Los Angeles officers who were earlier held liable ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - A roster change, gay rights decisions and a proposal to amend the state constitution marked a watershed year ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Officials Await Rise in Cap on Small-Claims Court Damages

Jan. 4, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni And Cheryl Miller

SACRAMENTO - Forms have been updated, a new fee structure put in place and now California court officials say they're just wai...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - What do a cloned dog, paparazzi and former Enron executives have in common? To put it gently, each has massive p...


Administrative/Regulatory


NRA Sues Over Handgun Initiative

Dec. 31, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday to overt...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transaction for Dec. 30

Dec. 31, 2005
By Aubrey Poolen

LA JOLLA - Montecito Regents LLC purchased a 574-unit apartment complex, Regents La Jolla at 9253 Regents Road. An 18-month fi...


Technology & Science


Ready, Willing and Able to Surf?

Dec. 31, 2005
By Amy Spees

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether lawyers are looking to volunteer with senior citizens in Contra Costa County or with people with HIV ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - By Marina Porche - To avoid the expense of litigation, public-sector employers should consider requiring arbitr...


Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson - Periodically, there are copyright cases that address employme...


Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There seems to be an undercurrent buzzing around the legal community, both bench and bar, ...


Civil Rights


Conviction Tossed, Man Sues Two Prosecutors

Dec. 31, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - A man whose murder conviction was reversed last year after he spent 24 years in prison has added former Distric...


Litigation


Music Pirates Multiply Despite Successful Suits

Dec. 31, 2005
By Peter Zuckerman

LOS ANGELES - The lawsuits scared off Dalena E. Hunter. The 25-year-old graduate student at UCLA once downloaded free music a...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


LOS ANGELES - In the days of the Old West, judges traveled by horseback and held court when they arrived at settlement outpost...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Another year brought another 15,000 cases to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But none of the 2005 cases...


Zoning, Planning and Use


LOS ANGELES - Score one for the wild peacocks. Feral peafowl roaming the parklands and canyons of Palos Verdes Estates have wo...


Public Interest


Blackbird Sings Thanks to Pro Bono Match

Dec. 31, 2005
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - Over the last two years, the Blackbird Music Project has put on several free orchestral concerts and provided the ...


Criminal


Briefly

Dec. 30, 2005
By Susan Mcraen

FELONY REVERSED - A teenager who pocketed a cell phone that another youth dropped after fleeing a brawl did not commit the fel...


Judges and Judiciary


In Chambers

Dec. 30, 2005
By Don Ray And Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles County Superior Court bench officers are slated for retirement. They are Judges Richard G. Kolo...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Dec. 29

Dec. 30, 2005
By Aubrey Poolen

OFFICE LONG BEACH - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arranged a $19.1 million, 10-year loan to lock in a fixed rate through Aetna Lif...


Law Practice


Students Fight for Immigrants

Dec. 30, 2005
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - When Melanie Jo Triebel enrolled at Chapman School of Law, she hoped the long hours spent pouring over legal tex...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - By Geoffrey S. Sheldon and Connie M. Chuang - In enacting the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the 19...