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Contracts


Tribes Start Arbitration Over Casino Deal

Apr. 6, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

First Nation Gaming, a corporate arm of the Tunica Biloxi tribe of Native Americans in Louisiana, recently began an arbitratio...


Litigation


A San Pedro jury recently awarded apartment fire victim Elizabeth Berry $4.15 million in her negligence lawsuit against her fo...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Remember Josh Connole. That's what defense attorney W. Michael Mayock told reporters outside the U.S. courthouse...


Litigation


Age-Bias Case Ensnares Production Firm

Apr. 6, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

A company founded by Dick Clark, "The World's Oldest Teenager," is being sued for age discrimination because the 74-year-old t...


Litigation


The Temecula Valley Unified School District agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by a district psychologist who clai...


Law Practice


Sudden Impact: 20 Under 40

Apr. 6, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Growing up in Orange County piqued Mike Alvarado's interest in becoming a real estate lawyer. "It was inescapable to notice re...


Firm Watch


Shaq Falls on Appellate Attorney

Apr. 6, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Appellate attorney Ted Boutrous probably didn't think that, the first time he met Shaquille O'Neal, the 300-pound basketball s...


Firm Watch


Paul Hastings Gets New Chairwoman

Apr. 6, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Six months after becoming vice chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, attorney Elena Baca h...


Large Firms


For Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, the timing of the merger between his Boston-based firm and Los Angeles' Ri...


Litigation


Column - Tort Reform - By Andrea Mosmann - The tort reform debate has raged for years. Tort reform advocates blame supposedly ...


Securities


Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jay C. Gandhi - On March 12, 2004, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued her decisi...


Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - I bought my first Martha Stewart Living magazine the other day. I have no intention of coo...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Everyone who has attended a mediation probably has had th...


Appellate Practice


Picketing Law Survives Court Test

Apr. 6, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has ruled that an ordinance limiting picketing in residential areas "somewhat curtails" free speec...


Criminal


FULLERTON - A 72-year-old former priest Friday received a six-month jail sentence for molesting a teenage parishioner in the b...


Law Practice


Thirteen Lawyers Vie for Spots on Bar Board

Apr. 6, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen California lawyers are seeking election to spots on the State Bar board of dg governors for 2004-05, in...


Education


SANTA ANA - The road to accreditation for Orange County's oldest law school just got a little longer. The American Bar Associa...


Government


LOS ANGELES - When an outspoken Roman Catholic lay chaplain was barred from Los Angeles Men's Central Jail for criticizing con...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Of the 12 boys who spent their teenage years in Bausch Cottage at Hillside Children's Center in Rochester, N.Y.,...


Constitutional Law


Marriage Suits Combined

Apr. 3, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has joined together two lawsuits seeking to give same-sex couples the right to marry. Su...


Personal Injury & Torts


SANTA ANA - "Mayday!" firefighter Floyd Hiser shouted into the radio of the helicopter he was piloting. "I have a flameout. I'...


Entertainment & Sports


Poetry: In the Easy Dream

Apr. 3, 2004
By Columnist

You're standing in the Court, all nine Supremes in your face, before you notice your nightgown ...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and Diane E. Hamlin - Speaking engagements are an essential component of every succes...


Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - The prosecution of Kobe Bryant had commentators and columnists early on questioning whethe...


Environmental


Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit and Michael Schafler - Ratification of the 14th Amendment was motivated by ...


Appellate Practice


Technical Glitch Puts Old Opinion on Web

Apr. 3, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A technical problem at the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday resulted in the wrong opinion's being posted ...


Litigation


SANTA ANA - Ruling the names are too similar, a federal judge enjoined organizers of the "Newport Beach Boat Show" from using ...


Judges and Judiciary


Accused Judge Will Testify at His Trial

Apr. 3, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will take the stand in his own defense when his trial on ...


Appellate Practice


Doctor Needn't Reveal Pot Patient's Papers

Apr. 3, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ruled that a Santa Barbara doctor did not have to turn over a patient's medical r...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - The looming budget cuts for trial courts have given civil ligitators here an acute attack of arachnophobia. They f...