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Litigation


Secret Hearing

Oct. 4, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Los Angeles Times Thursday accused a Sacramento Superior Court judge of violating the First Amen...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis delivered a stern sermon against abortion, the death penalty and stem-cell...


Constitutional Law


Parolees Can't Be Forced to Give Blood

Oct. 4, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing parolees to give blood for a federal DNA database is a violation of Fourth Amendment protections again...


Judges and Judiciary


Hard-Driving Judge

Oct. 4, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra County Superior Court Judge Theresa Canepa why she missed a court date. Her...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - An Orange County judge ordered the Los Angeles County sheriff's union to halt the deputy sickouts that closed fi...


Securities


Watching the Watchers

Oct. 3, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of ...


Constitutional Law


Valid Ballot

Oct. 3, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Daniel H. Lowenstein - The blocking of the California recall election by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....


Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Robert A. Holland and Hieu T. Hoang - Experienced appellate advocates know that they must ne...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Benjamin D. Scheibe - Consider the following scenario: The defendant, who has been p...


International


Forum Column - By Francis T. Fahy - Thomas Friedman's vitriol against France in "France is Becoming Enemy of the United States...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names Two Women to San Diego Bench

Oct. 3, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed an assistant U.S. attorney and a former federal prosecutor to the San Diego...


Intellectual Property


Pooh Royalties Case Will Get New Judge

Oct. 3, 2003
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - After 12 years under the supervision of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, the high-profile a...


Media


Panel Affirms Libel Award to Attorney

Oct. 3, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has affirmed a $2.25 million judgment in favor of Beverly Hills attorney and businessman L...


Criminal


Court Upholds Evading Arrest Law

Oct. 3, 2003
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - Upholding the state Vehicle Code for felony evading arrest, an appeals court has rejected claims that the law re...


Labor/Employment


Labor Lawyer Developed National Reputation

Oct. 3, 2003
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - David Arthur Cathcart, a nationally prominent attorney in labor and employment law, died Tuesday of cancer at hi...


Litigation


Verizon Settlement

Oct. 3, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest U.S. local-telephone company, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a...


Law Practice


Elevator Tiff Doesn't Prove Future Harm

Oct. 3, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Stepping into a fight that began in a trial court elevator, a state appeal court has reversed an order prohibi...


Intellectual Property


Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an unusual gift to s...


Judges and Judiciary


SACRAMENTO - Employees of the Sacramento County Superior Court voluntarily returned to their jobs Wednesday, a day after they ...


Column By Garry Abrams - In the drab city of Ankara, Turkey, in 1942, the NKVD, the intelligence service of the Soviet Union, ...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Fills Vacancy at 3rd DCA

Oct. 3, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Nevada County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Butz was named Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis to the 3rd District Court...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - A Public Utilities Commission official reviewing the compromise plan to get the bankrupt Pacific Gas and Elect...


Transactions


ANAHEIM - Pacific Community Mortgage Inc. leased 10,035 square feet of office space in Stadium Centre at 2099 State College B...


Law Practice


Red Mass Welcomes Bench, Bar Members

Oct. 2, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The historic confluence of the Roman Catholic Church and the state lives on in the Red Mass, a colorful ritual c...


Real Estate/Development


Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - The existence and scope of a business owner's duty to protect the publ...


Constitutional Law


Lost Votes

Oct. 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - On Sept. 23, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, unanimously reversed...


Constitutional Law


Skeptical Look at Varian Slurs

Oct. 2, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A state appeal court panel was extremely skeptical Tuesday about the notion that allegedly defamatory writings on I...


Judges and Judiciary


Solano DAs Named to Bench

Oct. 2, 2003
By Donna Domino

SOLANO - Solano County prosecutors Robert S. Bowers and Michael Mattice were appointed Tuesday by Gov. Gray Davis to Superior ...


Bankruptcy


High Court Adds 'Miranda' Case

Oct. 2, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court's 2003-04 term is shaping up as one that could set important new precedents in the area of Miran...


Law Practice


Bankruptcy Star Taught High School for Year

Oct. 2, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Monday for veteran bankruptcy lawyer Robert L. Morrison, who died of a heart attack...