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Corporate


Refinery Deal May Foul State's Air

Jun. 17, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A deal to reduce refinery pollution pushed by the federal government could actually harm efforts to clean up ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Bruce Zucker - In 1994, Jerry Valdivia, a parolee facing a parole violation, filed a class action against th...


Forum Column - By James Mosher - Flavored alcoholic beverages such as Bacardi Silver, Smirnoff Ice and Skye Blue are mixed dri...


Law Practice


Letter to the Editor - Regarding "Criminalizing Lawyers Undermines Bid to Protect Human Rights" (June 9 Daily Journal): Thanks...


Corporate


Pledge's Roots Also Lie in Marketing

Jun. 17, 2005
By Columnist

Letter to the Editor - Regarding Diane Karpman's article about the commercial origins of the Ten Commandments monuments ("From...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott have tried some of California's biggest civil cases, some valu...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday struck down the latest challenge brought by Southern California cities to e...


Entertainment & Sports


Column - By Garry Abrams - Wanted: Low-mileage, high-credibility witness. Must combine innocence and charm of well-behaved tod...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Buddhists Sue Over Closing Bonsall Center

Jun. 17, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Claiming that they are the victims of "hostility" against their religion, Vietnamese Buddhists have sued San Dieg...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco police officers are pursuing a class action that could sweeten their pensions by an est...


Criminal


Clergy Abuse Ruling Stands

Jun. 17, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court said Wednesday it would not review a Los Angeles appeal court's decision to reverse a ...


Entertainment & Sports


Tribute-Record Plans Irks Prince

Jun. 17, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - You can call him The Artist or His Royal Badness, but don't call Prince happy. The Minneapolis-based rock legen...


Real Estate/Development


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer disbarred for overbilling can't reinvent himself as a real estate agent, a Sacramento ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Wednesday June 15

Jun. 16, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL OTAY MESA - First Industrial Realty Trust purchased a 205,000-square-foot warehouse at 1855 Dornoch Court from the...


Bankruptcy


Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Oscar Garza and Kenneth A. Glowacki Jr. - In any Chapter 11 case, it is the goal of the deb...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Franklin E. Zimring - Whatever else it should have taught us, this spring's prime time tragedy of Terri Schi...


Media


Daily Journal Reporter McRae Wins Award

Jun. 16, 2005
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Susan McRae, a veteran Daily Journal reporter, has won Los Angeles Press Club's 2004 Journalist of the Year awar...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles Judge Was Civil Rights Activist

Jun. 16, 2005
By Allison Schifani

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Long Beach today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harry T. Shafer. Shafe...


Litigation


SAN DIEGO - Court errors that deprived a defendant of his right to a speedy trial have brought an order from an appellate cour...


Administrative/Regulatory


SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to scrap a proposed prescription drug discount initiative, deal...


Criminal


Doubts Accompany Accused Priest's Return

Jun. 16, 2005
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Parishioners at a May 23 mass in Berkeley wept, cheered and rose to their feet upon learning their longtime p...


Public Interest


Lawyers Lead Effort to Help Kids

Jun. 16, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - After the 1992 Rodney King riots, determined volunteers organized L.A. City Camp to show inner-city youngsters h...


Criminal


Lawmakers Seek Death Penalty Moratorium

Jun. 16, 2005
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A pair of legislators announced Tuesday they will seek a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty while...


Administrative/Regulatory


Panel to Housing Authority: Pay Up

Jun. 16, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment case the San Francisco Housing Authority could have settled for $365,000 five years ago w...


LOS ANGELES - After Michael Jackson was acquitted of child-molestation charges Monday, the Internet wag Matt Drudge posted a p...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Tuesday June 14

Jun. 15, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL VENTURA - World Market & Tile signed a lease for 15,000 square feet of industrial space at 2976 Golf Course Dri...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Today is Flag Day. To celebrate, Congress is considering amending the First Amendment for...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - Laurie L. Levenson - Believe it or not, Michael Jackson's case is not the only child molestation...


Criminal


Denial of Parole Upheld in 'Ghoulish' Murder

Jun. 15, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Cupertino man who killed his young lover and kept the corpse in a box he used as a nightstand cannot be par...


Administrative/Regulatory


WASHINGTON - Prison inmates can establish a 14th Amendment liberty interest when seeking to avoid an assignment to high-securi...