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Constitutional Law


Media Lose Bid to Relax Ownership Regulations

Jun. 15, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to insert itself into a dispute over media-ownership rules, rejecting petiti...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - One week after its medical marijuana ruling reinforced the reach of federal authority under the Commerce Clause, ...


Corporate


Fleishman Postponed

Jun. 15, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge agreed Monday to push back the trial date for former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and...


Intellectual Property


High Court Ruling Could Boost Drug Research

Jun. 15, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Drug companies have wide latitude to use compounds patented by other companies to develop new drugs, the U.S. ...


Column - By Garry Abrams - The Notorious B.I.G. case keeps getting smaller. More than three years after it was filed, the cons...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Prevails

Jun. 15, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday struck down two of the last remaining challenges to the underpinnings of the plan...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Curious authorities took note a few years ago when they discovered an ominous rust-colored swath discoloring t...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - A young federal prosecutor with a string of reversals to his name got an unusual break Monday from a senior j...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - After a 14-week trial filled with lurid tales of boozing, body waxing and late nights in a private arcade, a San...


Firm Watch


Schwarzenegger Appoints Lawyers

Jun. 14, 2005
By Maggie Guerin

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced three appointments to various state boards and positions in May. The governor appointed a...


Firm Watch


Scores Touchdown With Football Maven

Jun. 14, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

Like the Los Angeles region, the roster of clients for the sports practice at Century City's Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mar...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


"Three of the most unpredictable things in the world are a stallion in heat, a woman in love and a jury," ADR mediator and arb...


Litigation


The East African nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea have had a long, tumultuous history, marked with significant casualties durin...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Chief Justice Ronald M. George thanked the Beverly Hills Bar Association for supporting the independence of the judiciar...


Public Interest


Free Speech

Jun. 14, 2005
By Maggie Guerin

Pulling up to the valet at the Beverly Hilton, The Scene gazed through the glass windows of the hotel lobby in awe. Standing b...


Litigation


Common Ground

Jun. 14, 2005
By Contributing Writer

EXTRA Column - By Jeffrey Krivis and Mariam Zadeh - The X factor in mediation is the ability to influence the other side to pa...


Law Practice


Struggling computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced plans to buy partner Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion i...


Litigation


Telling mall security and a restaurant employee that "a very creepy guy was just outside looking at me; he's gone now," isn't ...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Attorney Jeffrey S. Kravitz rarely wants the judge who presides over a civil dispute to run the pretrial settlem...


Litigation


In their heyday, the raucous 1980s, few bands better epitomized the reckless abandon of the head-banger lifestyle than Motley ...


Litigation


A Chico man caught yelling racial epithets and beating three Hmong men to the ground will pick up the tab not only for the vic...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transaction for Monday June 13

Jun. 14, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Interocean Industries signed a five-year, $952,523 lease for 14,951 square feet of research-and-develop...


Firm Watch


Networking is everything. Just ask Philip Graves. The intellectual property litigator jumped to the Los Angeles office of Squi...


Administrative/Regulatory


Proposition 64 Doesn't Hurt Enviromental Suits

Jun. 14, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - The California Legislature has wisely tabled the bill Sean B. Hecht touted in his recent Forum article ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Allen Hopper - On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the medical marijuana case Gonzales ...


Criminal


Correction

Jun. 14, 2005
By David Houston

For the Record - A front-page brief Thursday, "Fleishman Plea," incorrectly reported that former Fleishman-Hillard executive D...


Entertainment & Sports


Death Becomes Him

Jun. 14, 2005
By Tina Spee

EXTRA Feature - In the late '90s, top brass at Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb came to junior partner Adam Streisand with a propo...


Administrative/Regulatory


Petition Demands Recall of District Attorney

Jun. 14, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Opponents of San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield turned in what they said were more than 7,000 sign...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran Santa Clara Judge Faces Fire, Unfazed

Jun. 14, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Rene Navarro is one of the stalwarts of the Hall of Justice. He has preside...


Litigation


Big Delay

Jun. 14, 2005
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - A delay appeared to be in the works for the trial, slated to begin Tuesday, of the high-profile wrongful-death ...