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Constitutional Law


Court OKs Control of Cybercafes

Jan. 31, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Cybercafe owners can be forced to impose a daytime curfew on minors, provide security and videotape patrons, a sha...


Government


Justice Stays Ruling on Detainees

Jan. 31, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a Bush administration request to prevent a Guantnamo Bay terrorism suspect fro...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - In one of the steepest penalties imposed in Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's crackdown on corrupt la...


Appellate Practice


Activists Can't Dictate Clinic's Advice to Patients

Jan. 31, 2004
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A group of activists can't force Planned Parenthood to tell women that abortion is unsafe and has been linked to...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego cop who stripped and masturbated for a homemade video he sold on eBay can sue the authorities who ...


Judges and Judiciary


Standing Vigil

Jan. 31, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Five years ago, Judge A. Wallace Tashima donned black tie instead of his usual black robe and had the thrill o...


Litigation


Lack of Sidewalks Caused Teen's Death, Lawsuit Says

Jan. 31, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

FONTANA - Karen Medina was struck and killed by a car two years ago as she walked home from A.B. Miller High School with some ...


Immigration


Court Expands Protection for Refugees

Jan. 31, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of China's one-child family policy may be entitled to asylum even if they have not been sterilized a...


Discipline


What Evil Lurks

Jan. 30, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Effective July 1, the rules regarding the duty of a California lawyer to maintain client ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum and Michael P. O'Bresly - During the waning months of his administrati...


Focus Column - Securities Law - By Charles S. Doskow - Lawyers who practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission - an...


Large Firms


Fish & Richardson Lures Patent Prosecutors

Jan. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - Fish & Richardson will acquire the bulk of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego patent prosecutio...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Sentencing Commission is stepping down at the end of the month to devote more time to her ca...


Judges and Judiciary


Black Attorney, Pilot Enforced Judgments

Jan. 30, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Attorney and pilot, Countess Pease Jeffries lived an extraordinary life, say friends, cut short by an illness few ...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - Sometimes a tempest in a teapot is caused by a dangerous combination of sour grapes and lamebrains. S...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Worked In L.A. Courts For 32 Years

Jan. 30, 2004
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Harry L. Hupp, who served as a federal and state judge in Los Angeles for 32 years, died late Tuesday after suff...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - In October, federal agents arrested an 85-year-old Garden Grove man preparing to board a plane at Los Angeles In...


Labor/Employment


Appeal Court Overturns Lab Worker's $1M Award

Jan. 30, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying that a plaintiff's expert witness was too opinionated at trial, an appellate court Wednesday reversed a...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Kamala Harris says she looks forward to working with the Innocence Project to determine whet...


Government


Pre-Emption at Issue in Tobacco Case

Jan. 30, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Wading into another of Attorney General Bill Lockyer's battles in the federal pre-emption arena, the Californi...


Litigation


Insurance Firm Will Pay $20 Million

Jan. 29, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - New York Life Insurance Co. will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit filed by descendants of some of the 1.5 mil...


Government


Ex-Raider Statistician Rules From Bench

Jan. 29, 2004
By Sarah Garveyn

LOS ANGELES - Gerald Rosenberg was no ordinary spectator at NFL Raiders football games during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robert W. Crandall and Karyn E. Model - Plaintiffs seeking class certification in wage-and-...


Technology & Science


Free Thinkers

Jan. 29, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - If a medication existed that could safely and significantly improve your memory, would ...


Large Firms


Five Skadden Fellows Will Work in California

Jan. 29, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Tuesday announced its 2004 roster of Skadden Fellows. Fi...


Employee Benefits


Domestic Partner Pension Suit Gets OK

Jan. 29, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The domestic partner of a former Foley & Lardner partner can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the firm of d...


Civil Rights


City Sued Over Disabled Access

Jan. 29, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Joining the crusade of a man who uses a wheelchair, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed suit against Mi...


Government


Finance Rules in Question

Jan. 29, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A state political watchdog agency said Tuesday it would review its regulations in the wake of two court decisions...


Securities


LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday for Los Angeles attorney Marvin Greene, a securities law expert, retir...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers accused Roman Catholic church officials Tuesday of trying to delay justice for alleged victi...