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Litigation


Persistence Pays Off in Mock Trials

Mar. 26, 2005
By Tim Willert

RIVERSIDE - Tamalpais High School is nothing if not persistent. Winners of 10 straight Marin County mock-trial contests but ne...


Corporate


Toshiba Punitives

Mar. 26, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara County jury ordered Japanese technology giant Toshiba Corp. on Thursday to pay $84 million in pu...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - On this Good Friday as Christians head into Easter weekend, our thoughts turn to the...


Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - We're all going to die someday. It isn't a question of "if," it's a question of "when."...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Max Factor III - The mediation landscape has changed for single-family residential real estat...


Employment Column - By Craig Pratt - Employment litigators encounter human resources specialists because they are often an org...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place April 2 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Y. Kakita, who was known as...


LOS ANGELES - The city of Lynwood does not have to pay more than $1 million to a trash contractor who is under federal indictm...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Chastises Judge for Inappropriate Actions

Mar. 26, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday publicly admonished retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...


Criminal


Grand Jury Indicts South Gate Business Owner

Mar. 26, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury on Thursday expanded its South Gate corruption probe, indicting a 53-year-old nursery busin...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register have challenged a judge's ruling barri...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Deming, a former certified public accountant and business executive, has left San Francisco's Farella, B...


Administrative/Regulatory


Panel Slams Law Blocking Inmate Grievances

Mar. 26, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Even in the slammer, the rule of law exists. A federal appellate panel took a slap Thursday at the Prison Liti...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists earlier this year hoped an Alameda Superior Court judge's ruling had helped them revive the ...


Firm Watch


WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Thelen, Reid & Priest have elected Stephen O'Neal chairman of the 440 lawyer Sa...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Former Sherman Oaks attorney Howard A. Lipton was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday for practicing law w...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Med-Mal Verdict

Mar. 25, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County Superior Court jury awarded a brain-damaged woman $22.3 million Wednesday in a medical-malpract...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A man battling deportation to Mexico won a break from a federal appellate panel Wednesday on the grounds he's ...


Judges and Judiciary


Jury Convicts Three in Gang Rape of Teenager

Mar. 25, 2005
By Tim Willert

SANTA ANA - Three young men accused of raping an intoxicated teenager on a pool table in the home of a former high-ranking Ora...


Forum Column - By Paul Singarella - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to "blow up the boxes" of agency bureaucracy through a...


Criminal


Blake Articles Misrepresents Prosecutor's Role

Mar. 25, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letters to the Editor - Your article on the outcome of the much-publicized trial of Robert Blake ("Jurors Acquit Blake in Deat...


Criminal


Second Girl Testifies About Being Molested

Mar. 25, 2005
By Tim Willert

SANTA ANA - A stoic teenage girl testified Wednesday that Alejandro Avila molested her 50 times over a one-year period when th...


Litigation


Commission Fines Law Firm $1,000

Mar. 25, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Best, Best & Krieger, the Inland Empire's largest law firm, has been fined for failing to report $57,223 in ca...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Entertainment litigator Lucia Coyoca will return to Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in April as a partner in the...


Litigation


Judge Won't Dismiss Criminal Indictment

Mar. 25, 2005
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss the criminal indictment against David Rosen, the former finance...


Bankruptcy


Libel Was Not Dischargeable in Bankruptcy

Mar. 25, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A grad student at UC Davis can't duck into bankruptcy to escape a $23,000 court judgment won by a professor he...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge approved a landmark settlement Wednesday that promises California schoolchildren more a...


Judges and Judiciary


WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take up the case of a judge who talked to an...


Litigation


Black Women Sue Hotel for Tossing Them Out

Mar. 25, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - If it looks like a duck, it's probably a duck, right? Well, what if it looks like a hooker? According to two Afr...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has refused to set aside an order dismissing the criminal case against...