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Criminal


Column By Philip Carrizosa - Sometimes justice comes in unexpected ways. Take the case of Delbert Meeks, an AIDS-stricken and ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar in L.A. Hails Natural Leader

Jul. 24, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Some might think it unusual for an attorney who lives full time and works part time in Orange County to become t...


International


Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Robert Loewy - At least partially fulfilling his campaign promise to have California Indian...


Personal Injury & Torts


Forum Column - By Joseph W. Cotchett and Robert Gnaizda - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent punitive damages-public benefit ...


Judges and Judiciary


Santa Clara Judge in Ticket-Fixing Case Retires

Jul. 24, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser retired from the bench in a deal announced Thursday to settl...


Government


Fired Lawyer Gets Seven Years of Back Pay

Jul. 24, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A deputy attorney general is entitled to an extra seven years of back pay because that's how long it took the ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Panel Tosses Publisher's Defamation Lawsuit

Jul. 24, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - Metropolitan News-Enterprise publisher Roger M. Grace considers himself the victor even though a state appellate...


Law Practice


Judgment Stands in Legal Malpractice Suit

Jul. 24, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A Torrance judge let stand a $1.25 million judgment against Milton Grimes for failing to litigate a wrongful-dea...


Criminal


Jury Integrity Bill Faces Tough Odds

Jul. 24, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Legal ethics experts say a bill that would make it illegal for former jurors to work as consultants on retrial is ...


Judges and Judiciary


Urban League To Honor DA Kamala Harris

Jul. 24, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will be honored Saturday at the Urban League's Women of Power Aw...


Criminal


Grandmother Of Victim Says She Was Used

Jul. 24, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Shirley Boucher has spent the last week in Department 107 of the criminal courts building, watching Jerrell Patr...


Entertainment & Sports


LOS ANGELES - An attempt to disqualify the judge who threw out the Winnie the Pooh royalties case has been denied for a second...


LOS ANGELES - Facing an unprecedented level of secrecy in high-profile trials around the country, media are fighting back agai...


Criminal


Court Says 'Dark Poetry' Isn't Criminal

Jul. 24, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a San Jose teenager whose self-described "dark po...


Judges and Judiciary


O'Connor Advises Judges to Meet Their Lawmakers

Jul. 24, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

MONTEREY - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed serious concern about deteriorating relations between Congress ...


Judges and Judiciary


Model Judge

Jul. 24, 2004
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - "What you see is what you get," is how Fresno Court Executive Tamara Beard describes Presiding Judge Brad Hill...


Media


SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that pits freedom of speech against anti-discrimination laws, the California Supreme Court agreed We...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Michael D. Myers - Receiverships are a powerful remedy that should be part of the arsenal of ev...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The just-completed Supreme Court term was memorable for a number of decisions concerning cru...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - Going to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fa...


Forum Column - By Joseph M. Lipner - The International Court of Justice, in a July 9 opinion, has ruled that Israel's security...


Book Review - "Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler" (Brassey's, 2004) by Mark Kalmansohn - By Mark E. Beck ...


Judges and Judiciary


His Honor, the Hottie

Jul. 23, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A little self-promotion (actually, a lot) and assistance from the family helped make 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...


Immigration


MONTEREY - The nation's largest federal appellate court saw a remarkable spike in immigration appeals in the past two years, a...


Litigation


Priest-Abuse Attorneys Urge Trial

Jul. 23, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - Saying mediation in the church sex scandal had "all but broken down," lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of...


Government


Hostile Prison Takeover

Jul. 23, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Could a federal judge take over the state's notoriously troubled prison system - and fix it? U.S. District Judge ...


Environmental


Lockyer's Greenhouse Suit Taps Age-Old Tactic

Jul. 23, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - An attack launched Wednesday by California and seven other states on global warming employs an ancient legal c...


Appellate Practice


Appeals Panel Narrows Cipro Class Action

Jul. 23, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - In a split decision, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a class action against pharmaceutical giant Bayer...


Judges and Judiciary


Ads Oppose Bush Judicial Nominees

Jul. 23, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - A coalition of interest groups opposed to some of President Bush's judicial nominees on Wednesday launched a tele...


Probate


Attorney Helped Establish Tribes' Immunity

Jul. 23, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

Services were held July 17 for George Edwin Long, an Inland Valley probate attorney who helped establish the sovereign immunit...