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Appellate Practice


Court: Tricked Woman Was Kidnapped

Jul. 3, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping charge was appropriate for a defendant who trick...



Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company has agreed to pay San Francisco Unified School District $43.1 million to settl...


Government


S.F. Public Defender Will Charge Fees

Jul. 2, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time in its 83-year history, the San Francisco public defender's office will begin charging clie...


Focus Column - Litigation - By Cassandra S. Franklin - It's a familiar scenario. Discovery has begun in your case and the othe...


Criminal


Forum Column - By Thomas R. Owens - For some of us, the videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by uniformed officers of the Los ...


Criminal


LAPD Has Chance to Show It Has Changed

Jul. 2, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Jeffrey Eglash - The videotaped beating of Stanley Miller by a Los Angeles Police Department officer poses t...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Anthony Lewis - "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the na...


Appellate Practice


Union Must Seek Records in Court

Jul. 2, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - The Orange County court employees' union cannot bypass the court in an effort to get travel records for judges a...


Criminal


S.F. Judges Hike Bail Amounts

Jul. 2, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco judges will increase bail today for a variety of crimes ranging from the sale of marijuana to po...


Criminal


Lawyer Beat Alcoholism, Studied Medicine

Jul. 2, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - John J. Ambrose Jr. worked as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, a sole practitioner in Palos Verdes and a San Diego...


Litigation


Where Should Detainee File Petition?

Jul. 2, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the San Francisco-based federal appeals court to consider whether a petiti...


Litigation


Court Terminates Suit Over Ad

Jul. 2, 2004
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Would you buy a used car from Arnold Schwarzenegger? Akron, Ohio, auto dealer Fred Martin thought so and used ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Prefers Fairness Over Speed

Jul. 2, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John Kraetzer likely knows no one would give him an award for moving trials along...


Litigation


Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew Henderson - Punitive damages make up a notoriously contentious field of law. As in the ...


Forum Column - By Abdul Aziz Said - It is important that the mistakes of the past, which brought the authoritarian regime of S...


Insurance


Allstate Will Cover U.S. Visitors to Israel

Jul. 1, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Allstate Insurance agreed Tuesday to issue life coverage to people who have visited Israel, and six other carrie...


Large Firms


Snow's Alone at Clifford Chance

Jul. 1, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance will close its doors in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tonight, leaving only its fou...


Appellate Practice


Salesman Wins $12 Million Termination Lawsuit

Jul. 1, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach man won an $11.9 million jury verdict in a wrongful-termination suit against his former employer...


Appellate Practice


Panel Strikes Prison Sentence in Drug Case

Jul. 1, 2004
By Claude Walbert

A state appellate court Tuesday struck down the sentence in a drug treatment case, saying that under Proposition 36 a judge ca...


Criminal


Riders' Defense Lawyer Will Stay

Jul. 1, 2004
By Robert Selna

HAYWARD - An Alameda County judge Tuesday rejected prosecutors' arguments that the lead attorney in the Riders police corrupti...


Constitutional Law


LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Alvarez-Machain case left in doubt the future of a series of lawsuits fil...


Criminal


Column By Philip Carrizosa - Back in 1986, the late Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk testified before the state Assembly Com...


Large Firms


Bankrupt Brobeck Wins $8M in Attorneys Fees

Jul. 1, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - A three-attorney arbitration panel has awarded the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison $8 mil...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic church has filed a legal challenge to a California law that opened the door to hundreds of se...


Column By Garry Abrams - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will be turned over to the custody of the new government of Iraq...


Constitutional Law


Free Speech Trumps Ban on Internet Porn

Jul. 1, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Handing a defeat to Congress and the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the free-speech ri...


Litigation


Man Abducted In Mexico Can't Sue in America

Jul. 1, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a decision that offered a victory to the Bush administration and to victims of human rights abuses, the Suprem...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - Each day of their eight-week gang-rape trial, the baby-faced, neatly dressed trio sat with their hands folded. The...


Technology & Science


Judge to Spammers: You Can't Sue Spam-Blockers

Jul. 1, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - The Communications Decency Act shields makers of spam-blocking software against suits by commercial e-mailers ...