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Attorneys Travel to Battleground States

Oct. 27, 2004
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers up and down California are jumping on a national caravan of attorneys traveling to battleground states t...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - International Law - By C. Matthew Schulz - The H1-B, the visa most often relied on by employers of foreign prof...


Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Three years ago today, President Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act. The administra...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Column - By Garry Abrams - Consumers Union, best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, and the American Arbitra...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Judge Faces DUI Charges

Oct. 27, 2004
By Dan Evans

NORWALK - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision in December, was b...


Government


The Contract Wars

Oct. 27, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders head into a Nov. 2 election showdown over their initiative t...


Government


Federal Judge Slams Former Prison Chief

Oct. 27, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state prison director Edward Alameida Jr. engaged in "gross abuse of the public trust" by allegedly bow...


Military Law


Tribunals Violate Law, Counsel Says

Oct. 27, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The military commissions created by the Bush administration to prosecute detainees held at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, f...


Appellate Practice


Panel Says Jurists Wrongly Held AIDs Victim

Oct. 27, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Three Orange County judges erred by holding a woman with AIDs in jail for more than a month because she didn't s...


Media


Cancer Victim Will Get $20 Million Payment

Oct. 27, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered two companies to pay $20.5 million to a former nuclear submarine ...


Criminal


Opposites Work Together to Gain Man's Freedom

Oct. 27, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

LOS ANGELES - She's a fast-talking Brooklyn-born criminal defense lawyer who has spent her career ferreting out police corrup...


Government


OUTSIDE COUNSEL FEES

Oct. 27, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's annual litigation costs have skyrocketed in the past three years, under the lead...


Firm Watch


By Tina Spee Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lured three corporate attorneys to its ranks in September, nabbing partner Mark L....


Judges and Judiciary


Santa Maria Office Attracts Prosecutor, Civil Attorney

Oct. 26, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

By Jason W. Armstrong SANTA BARBARA - Since the judicial seat up for grabs in Santa Barbara County appears to be a criminal as...


Law Practice


By Draeger Martinez The American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the most prestigious attorney groups in the nation, drew hu...


Criminal


By Amy K. Spees Workers' compensation Administrative Law Judge John C. Gutierrez and Deputy District Attorney Laura F. Priver...


Judges and Judiciary


By Blair Clarkson Experience has taken center stage in many of this year's Superior Court judicial runoff elections, and the ...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Rod S. Berman and Elizabeth Barrowman Gibson - Nowhere does summary judgment play a ...


Immigration


Immigration Judge in the Spotlight After Reversals

Oct. 26, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - What do we make of Anna S. Ho? Ho is the Los Angeles immigration judge who was reversed yet aga...


Law Practice


Degree of Flexibility

Oct. 26, 2004
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Cristina Leann Schultz in 2001 was a freshly minted Stanford Law School grad who didn't even have a bar card ...


Government


Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - Like every other state, California has a database containing the DNA...


Discipline


DA Involved in 'Butler' Acted Shamefully

Oct. 26, 2004
By Letters To The Editor

Letters to the Editor - I am former counsel for one of the four defendants involved in the Butler case mentioned in David Carr...


Criminal


NEWPORT BEACH - Prosecutors' statutory rape case against Gregory Haidl is in trouble. The supposed victim, who said the sex wa...


Litigation


Commissioner Subpoenas Insurers

Oct. 26, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Baffled insurance industry lawyers Friday questioned why state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi subpoenaed th...


Environmental


Leghold Trap Ban Challenge Tossed

Oct. 26, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has done away with the remaining challenges to a voter-approved ban on legho...


Constitutional Law


Law Ends Double Taxation of Fees

Oct. 26, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - New federal rules eliminating the so-called double taxation of attorney fees in discrimination cases went into ef...


Public Interest


Balance of Power

Oct. 26, 2004
By Tina Spee

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - As voters prepare to engage in the democratic process at polling places across th...


Government


SAN JOSE - A Northern California district attorney last year won $110,000 in damages against one of his own felony defendants ...


Family


SAN FRANCISCO - Note to new dads: Make sure you're the real father before you start spending like one. In a case of first impr...


By Amy K. Spees Two nurses from Santa Monica claim they're being stonewalled from collecting a $96,862 judgment that they won...