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Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - In a sharply worded opinion, a state appellate court has rebuked an Orange County judge for throwing out a busin...


Appellate Practice


'War on Terrorism' Amicus Briefs Stack Up

Apr. 20, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The light- and dark-green amicus briefs in the Supreme Court's first cases assessing the constitutionality of the...


Criminal


Parole Not Likely for Chowchilla Kidnapper

Apr. 20, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the men convicted of kidnapping a busload of children outside Chowchilla in 1976 appears to have suffer...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Urges Accommodation of Jewish Test Takers

Apr. 20, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Under pressure from outraged state Assembly members, State Bar leaders on Friday issued a broad resolution calli...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an Orange County sheriff's deputy can be sued for allege...


Government


COURT LAYOFFS

Apr. 20, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers in the offices of San Diego County's public defender and alternate public defender have begun receiving no...


Criminal


Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Jury trials, as any judge knows, are fraught with pitfalls. As the Tyco corporate...


Government


Psychiatry Behind Bars

Apr. 17, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - One threatened to jump off the Bay Bridge, snarling traffic for 13 hours, and the other is accused of killing ...


Commercial Law


Justices Reject Case of Nazi-Looted Art

Apr. 17, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Thursday threw out a closely watched lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to recover a ...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lorelei Westin and Al Halluin - "Nanotechnology" is a word used by many but actually...


Entertainment & Sports


Three poems by Charles E. Patterson

Apr. 17, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Near Cua Viet, 1967 An old woman knelt Weeping her son Into the earth. "Mother, who did this?" "Men," she said. ...


Criminal


Forum Column - By Robert A. Pugsley - On April 5, the state Supreme Court upheld a basic principle of criminal law, which unju...


Government


Can Domestic Spies Preserve Liberty?

Apr. 17, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - During her testimony before the Sept. 11 commission, National Security Advisor Condo...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Facing multiple interviewers at the same time can be intimidating, but with preparat...


Intellectual Property


Panel Plans to Reveal Proposals for Reform

Apr. 17, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - An influential advisory panel is poised to release the results of a four-year study into possible improvements...


Judges and Judiciary


Cordell Receives Rose Bird Memorial Award

Apr. 17, 2004
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Santa Clara Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell, the first black female judge in Northern Californ...


Public Interest


Police Union Chief Wants Death Penalty

Apr. 17, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco's police union has abruptly backed off his cautious endorsement of District Attorney...


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who had been accused of collecting state injury payments while doing heavy...


Product Liability


LOS ANGELES - The attorney for former users of the diabetes medication Rezulin told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - Some of California's most influential Democratic and Republican lawyers wrote to the state's congressional deleg...


Judges and Judiciary


Serene Judge Likes Low Profile

Apr. 17, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Two-strike convict Ronnie E. Young deserved a year off his sentence because he saved the life of a choking pri...


Appellate Practice


Court Allows FDA to Block Some State Warnings

Apr. 17, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, handing a victory to the pharmaceutical industry and the Bush administration, ru...


Environmental


SAN DIEGO - Kathleen A. Salvaty sometimes rolls down her car window and sniffs the night air as she drives through Los Angeles...


Civil Rights


DA Says Killers Punished Victim for Lie

Apr. 16, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Four young men who killed transgender teen Gwen Araujo thought she deserved to die for deceiving them about he...


Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael M. Pollak - Many plaintiffs' attorneys have trouble pleading causes of action in insura...


Insurance


Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - It long has been the case that when an insured is sued and the complaint alleg...


Government


Forum Column - By Edmund Cogburn - Is U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political-power engine finally facing derailment?...


Appellate Practice


Panel Backs Citing All Opinions

Apr. 16, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - After months of debate over the merits of a controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublishe...


Criminal


Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Everyone applauds California inmate Ronnie Young for saving a man's life, but Y...