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Civil Rights


Panel Revives Reality TV Lawsuit

Nov. 20, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court Tuesday reversed a jury verdict clearing a reality TV show of intentionally recording parents...


Energy Law


SAN FRANCISCO - California officials, worried that the Bush administration is too cozy with polluters, have gone to court to t...


Criminal


State Prisons Director Called to Explain

Nov. 20, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida faces mounting criticism in the state Senate and a federal court over a...


Criminal


Judge Scolds Santa Clara Prosecutor For Searches

Nov. 20, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge sanctioned a prosecutor in a harshly worded order Tuesday for executing improper searche...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - The partial heir to a renowned Russian art patron who sued to halt the exhibition of Bolshevik-looted paintings ...


Government


SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to slash the Vehicle License Fee, with no assurance he can replace the bill...


Constitutional Law


FBI Can Bug Cars Via Navigation System

Nov. 20, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The emergency roadside assistance features in some luxury cars can also be used as roving bugs by the FBI to l...


Judges and Judiciary


Aesthetic Value

Nov. 20, 2003
By Karen Coleman

MARTINEZ - Toward the end of a recent continuing education program in the Peter L. Spinetta Family Law Center in Martinez, fam...


Tax


Double Standard

Nov. 19, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In a survey by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board released in October, 12 per...


Criminal


Panel Pursues Lawyers' Help With New Rule

Nov. 19, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Monday sought guidance from lawyers in crafting new law on whether legal arguments in c...


Transactions


ANTIOCH - Keegin & Coppin Co . broker Ronald Stauber closed the $1.3 million sale of 21,000 square feet of industrial spa...


Judges and Judiciary


Kuhl's Critic Distorted Jurist's Words

Nov. 19, 2003
By Jennifer Orff

On Nov. 12, professor Catherine Fisk argued that the Senate should not confirm the president's nomination of Los Angeles Supe...


Focus Column Probate Law By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley In In the Matter of the Erma Mary Olivera Trust , 2003 DJDA...


Large Firms


Pillsbury Winthrop Chair Wins Third Term

Nov. 19, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Mary Cranston will serve another term as chairwoman of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop after her partners vo...


Appellate Practice


Court Upholds Preference Hiring

Nov. 19, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Declining to jump back into the affirmative action debate after its major ruling last term, the Supreme Court on...


Column By Garry Abrams Sometimes, paranoia is not a fantasy. Sometimes, your phone really is tapped. Sometimes, the strange n...


Judges and Judiciary


A Mentor and an Innovator

Nov. 19, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

AUBURN - Virtually everyone who has come into contact with Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Couzens has a good word...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Indefatigably Promotes Juvenile Courts

Nov. 19, 2003
By Sarah Garveyn

VENTURA - Ventura Superior Court Judge John E. Dobroth spent Halloween day shuttling between two courts. In the morning and af...


Entertainment & Sports


Facing the

Nov. 19, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Jay Handlin In deciding the appeal in Newton v. Diamond , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a chance ...


Constitutional Law


Scalia Accuses Court of Creating Rights

Nov. 18, 2003
By Katrina Dewey

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a strong rebuke to his own court Saturday, saying its creati...


Law Practice


SAN JOSE - Santa Clara defense attorney Dennis Alan Lempert has won a battle against what he considers an attempt by a judge ...


Banking


Attorney Hand-Carries Letters of Credit

Nov. 18, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

The budget woes that have given the Golden State the lowest credit rating in the nation complicated a recent $3 billion financ...


Public Interest


Ramping Up

Nov. 18, 2003
By Karen Coleman

Five hundred civil rights boosters from the Bay Area and beyond clambered up the ramp of San Francisco's Palace Hotel on Oct. ...


Litigation


Player's Punch Prompts Suit By Teammate

Nov. 18, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Football players often land themselves a spot on the clip reel for their hard hits on the field, but they're supposed to be sl...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Riverside County

Nov. 18, 2003
By Angela Gottula

INDIO - The $9.3 million in financing for the 10-building Las Brisas and the six-building Tres Flores apartment complexes was...


Litigation


Activists Try to Shutter Foie Gras Maker

Nov. 18, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

A battle playing out between animal rights activists and a foie gras maker over the duck farm's allegedly tortuous tactics cou...


Bankruptcy


Tuxedo rental firm Gingiss Group Inc., which operates 236 stores nationwide, selected a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to hel...


Government


Day 1, Scene 1

Nov. 18, 2003
By Columnist

Feature — By Pierce O'Donnell — On his very first day in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is presiding over a high-powered b...


Large Firms


Litigator Is Home at Munger Tolles

Nov. 18, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After two years with the Department of Justice, Dan Collins has returned to Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson as a partn...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Hogan & Hartson has hired another partner in its corporate practice in Century City. Carissa Coze joined the firm Oct. 20 ...