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Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - In seeking a record $270 million Tuesday for prosecuting a giant class action, a team of antitrust lawyers poi...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Founded Youth Peer Court

Apr. 1, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...


Judges and Judiciary


The Accidental Authority

Apr. 1, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

ROSEVILLE - Since his appointment to the bench in 1984, Placer County Superior Court Judge James Garbolino has earned a reputa...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ruled that the district attorney cannot present testimony from a purported eyewit...


International


Justices Weigh U.S. Abduction Of Mexican

Apr. 1, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a case with potential implications for the United States' war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard...


Government


WASHINGTON - Ruling Tuesday in a case questioning whether Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was murdered, the S...


Litigation


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John D. McConaghy - Nondisclosure agreements are considered the norm in the introduc...


Environmental


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - What's wrong with this picture? A shopping center developer buys a tract of land in San ...


Forum Column - By Beth K. Whittenbury - In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission wrote an advisory opinion (known as the Vail let...


Tax


Court Mulls Contingency-Fee Tax

Mar. 31, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Internal Revenue Service can require taxpayers who win...


Administrative/Regulatory


SEC Swings at Alleged Golf Scheme

Mar. 31, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Orange County man of fraud, claiming that he illegally pocke...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Four Attorneys Vie to Become Bar President

Mar. 31, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - Four lawyers from across California are running to become the next State Bar president, including John K. Van de...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Alameda Board May Repeal Wal-Mart Ban

Mar. 31, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Counsel Richard Winnie has recommended that the Board of Supervisors repeal an anti-Wal-Mart or...


Government


Nonprofit Squeeze

Mar. 31, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's nonprofit organizations will no longer be immune from the scrutiny their corporate cousins face -...


Securities


IDEALAB LAWSUIT

Mar. 31, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

Shareholders of a Pasadena technology incubator will have another chance to prove that they have a majority stake in the compa...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - The defining moment of prosecutor Summer Hathout's dedication to the cause of Muslim women came when she was pro...


Appellate Practice


Mail, Not Offender, Is Faulted

Mar. 31, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted sex offenders who are required to register with police every year are not responsible if they send a...


Environmental


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday expressed strong skepticism about whether the federal courts could order the...


Judges and Judiciary


Breaking Down Barriers

Mar. 31, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

WALNUT CREEK - Tough love with straight talk is delivered in Contra Costa County Commissioner Joel Golub's courtroom. As a 17-...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - A big chapter in Los Angeles legal history may have come to an abrupt end Monday with a judge's blunt...


Litigation


BAKERSFIELD - John Stoll shuffled almost jauntily into the interview room at the Kern County detention facility. Despite being...


Entertainment & Sports


Attorney Finds Oscar Loophole

Mar. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

The attorney who recently helped Orson Welles' daughter win the right to sell her father's Oscar award says he succeeded by fi...


Corporate


The executives at InVision Technologies Inc. have received a double dose of good news. General Electric Co. announced March 15...


Law Practice


Shock and Awe

Mar. 30, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Washington, D.C.-The nation's Capitol was rocked today by a series of disclosures of pr...


Litigation


Ex-Police Chief Wins Defamation Suit

Mar. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

Jarado Blue, former Pasadena school district police chief, won a $2.5 million judgment this month in his defamation lawsuit ag...


Firm Watch


Pillsbury Winthrop has landed a mergers and acquisitions practice for its Century City office. Ray La Soya and Lino J. Lauro, ...


Firm Watch


Inside Voices

Mar. 30, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Each year, the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America attracts more than a thousand guest...


Firm Watch


In the last two months, Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has swept up attorneys Marilyn S. Barrett, Daniel L. Go...


Litigation


Jury Rejects Sexual-Harassment Claims

Mar. 30, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

A prominent UCLA heart surgeon has won a defense verdict in a case alleging that he sexually harassed two former employees. ...


Firm Watch


Labor Lawyer Lands at L.A.'s Loeb

Mar. 30, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Michelle LaMar has landed at Loeb & Loeb after spending close to a year at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger. Before ...