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Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Philip K. Mautino - In admitting that jurors are indeed "judges" of the facts, we are finally appreciating t...


Criminal


Drug Dealers Lose Wiretap Case

May 10, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - After less than a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Los Angeles rejected damage claims from seven convicte...


Large Firms


Piper Will Plant Real Estate Flag Downtown

May 10, 2004
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Four months after real estate attorney Michael Meyer joined Piper Rudnick from Pillsbury Winthrop, he is carryin...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - Advocates of school desegregation have learned that what the Supreme Court gives, it also can take away. On May 1...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A $1.2 million settlement for demonstrators injured in a police clampdown during the 2000 Democratic National Co...


Product Liability


SINGAPORE CRASH

May 10, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Friday awarded $15 million in damages to the children of an Orange County couple who died in a...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Renee Mochkatel - Should employers be able to conduct surveillance of their employees in t...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Lawyers with disabilities or chronic illnesses, or who are pregnant, confront simila...


Government


WASHINGTON - State judicial elections are growing more political and more costly, eroding the public's trust in the nation's c...


Judges and Judiciary


Media Appearances Land Judge in Trouble

May 7, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance has launched formal charges against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevi...


LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges against a Venice resident for allegedly threatening to pl...


Appellate Practice


Though a defamatory statement may well run continuously on a Web site, the statute of limitations begins the day it is posted,...


Environmental


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For years, property owners, particularly in California, have turned to federal rather th...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The county of Riverside and disabled-voter advocates filed a federal court challenge in Los Angeles on Thursday ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The "wiretap hand-off" scandal that rocked Los Angeles law enforcement in the late 1990s was revisited in a fede...


Criminal


SPECTOR HOUSE SHOOTING

May 7, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The gun that killed actress Lana Clarkson at music producer Phil Spector's home went off inside her mouth, and s...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Focus Column - Corporate Law - By David A. Kays and George W. Kuney - While most corporate directors and officers recognize th...


Intellectual Property


Carole Handler Moves to Thelen Reid

May 7, 2004
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - High-profile intellectual property and antitrust lawyer Carole Handler is joining the Los Angeles office of Thel...


Forum Column - By Matt Daniels - I don't know if the Internal Revenue Service has ever conducted a poll to see what part of th...


Environmental


Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Kristina Lawson - Three recent cases have confirmed the California Environmental Quality...


Real Estate/Development


Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By William M. Hensley - In Pardee Construction Co. v. Superior Court, 100 Cal.App.4th ...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Douglas Heller - Despite the fanfare with which it was greeted, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recently enacte...


Government


Judge Mediates Lawmakers' Asbestos Talks

May 6, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Political efforts to create a national asbestos trust fund are continuing this week as businesses, insurance comp...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Saying attorneys had failed to establish an "urgent need," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday refus...


Contracts


Insurers Face Legal Battles Over October Fires

May 6, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles could be the beginning of a massive legal battle over alleged bad faith...


Column By Garry Abrams - An episode of increased terrorism anxiety, or foreground chatter, has made life in Los Angeles a litt...


Appellate Practice


SANTA ANA - Suppliers who provide shoddy materials can be held liable for defects that have not yet caused property damage, a ...


Labor/Employment


Golfer's Bias Case Could Move to Course

May 6, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - B. Birgit Koebke is ready to pit her considerable golf skills against those of her country club's president. If on...


Forum Column - By Daniel Tokaji - California and the rest of the country are in the middle of a once-in-a-generation transform...


Book Review - "Bluebird Rising: A Novel," by John DeCure (St. Martin's Minotaur 2003) - By Daniel A. Olivas - Attorney J. Shep...