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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Sept. 22

Sep. 23, 2005
By Aidan Doherty

OFFICE PASADENA - Broadreach Capital Partners LLC purchased Pasadena Tech Center, a 231,000-square-foot office building at 46...


Administrative/Regulatory


Taser's High-Voltage Defense

Sep. 23, 2005
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for a lawsuit to catch up with Fremont police when a suspect died after repeated blasts fr...


Immigration


Forum Column - By Richard Mac Bride - According to recent polls, a majority of Californians are worried about illegal immigrat...


Corporate


Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Jeffrey M. Rawitz and Alexander Frid - Hardly a week passes without a news story about theft...


Litigation


Companies Will Pay $8 Million for Cleanup

Sep. 23, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven companies that allegedly helped create one of California's oldest Superfund sites have agreed to pay m...


Insurance


Levee Failures Caused Flooding, Lawyers Claim

Sep. 23, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - Hoping to get a jump on insurance carriers who might deny Hurricane Katrina-related claims, lawyers have filed ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - People accused of killing white people are more likely to be sentenced to death in California than other homi...


Criminal


Recording Indictment

Sep. 23, 2005
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down a three-count indictment late Wednesday against an owner of a ch...


Judges and Judiciary


Boxer Nixes Roberts

Sep. 23, 2005
By Don De Benedictis

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Wednesday that she will join the growing ranks of Democrats who plan to ...


Trusts & Estates


Column - By Garry Abrams - "You're poor, Patty. You're poor." With those chilling words allegedly uttered by her mother, Barba...


Constitutional Law


LOS ANGELES - A member of a Russian Orthodox order whose adherents forbid pictures of themselves must be photographed to obtai...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can pool together their patents and license them as long as the patent holders don't force buyers t...


Litigation


Fee Award in Lab Case

Sep. 23, 2005
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge has awarded $3.5 million in fees to attorneys who defended a former Lawrence Livermor...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Sept. 21

Sep. 22, 2005
By Aidan Doherty

OFFICE SAN DIEGO - CarrAmerica Realty Corp. purchased Chancellor Park, a two-building, 195,733-square-foot, Class A office pr...


Government


Two Californians Signal Bush's High Court Conundrum

Sep. 22, 2005
By Lawrence Hurleyn

WASHINGTON - As President Bush considers whom to nominate to replace departing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, his ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings demonstrated that John G. Roberts Jr. should not be ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Letters, Administrative/Regulatory


Letter to the Editor - I wonder how many people understand the word "conservative." The word simply means to conserve or prese...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Oracle Does Deals to Remake Itself

Sep. 22, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - After 48 hours without sleep, Cooley Godward attorney Jennifer DiNucci curled up in a sleeping bag on the floor...


Litigation


High-Profile Lawyer's Fee Award Under Attack

Sep. 22, 2005
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Critics are attacking a $5 million attorney fee award in a securities case involving high-profile entertainme...


Litigation


World Poker Tour Firm Sues Travel Channel

Sep. 22, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - When things went well between The Travel Channel and the "World Poker Tour" TV show, things went very well indee...


Corporate


LOS ANGELES - The long-running Credit Lyonnais saga may continue to simmer indefinitely, according to the federal judge hearin...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Wachovia Acquires Westcorp for $3.42 Billion

Sep. 22, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Wachovia Corp. has snapped up Westcorp, the state's biggest provider of loans to used-car buyers, for $3.42 bil...


Environmental


Coast Dispute Lingers

Sep. 22, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The organization that unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the California Coastal Commission has...


Public Interest


LOS ANGELES - Responding to the demographic shift in once predominantly white and Republican Orange County, the American Civi...


Law Practice


Indicted Lawyer: Is He Crusader or Crook?

Sep. 22, 2005
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Palm Springs lawyer and investor Seymour Lazar sees himself as an advocate for consumers and shareholders battli...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Twain's favorite frog could find itself jumping around amid fewer chemicals as a result of a federal jud...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Makes Mark on 4th Circuit

Sep. 22, 2005
By Brent Kendall

RICHMOND, VA. - It was 1949 when William H. Hastie became the first black judge to serve on any of the powerful U.S. appellat...


Criminal


Making a Federal Case Out of Gangs

Sep. 22, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - When Kamala Harris was elected San Francisco district attorney last year, she pledged to fight the epidemic of...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Sept. 20

Sep. 21, 2005
By Aidan Doherty

LAND SAN DIEGO - Ryan Cos. US Inc. bought 20.82 acres of land for development within Bressi Ranch Corporate Center for $17.6 m...


Litigation


Bill to Retool ESA Would Redefine Success

Sep. 21, 2005
By Cheryl Miller

SACRAMENTO - Environmentalists say they're gearing up for a legal and legislative fight over a federal bill introduced Monday ...