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Constitutional Law


Sticking to Rights

Jul. 17, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Janet M. LaRue - A seminarian gave a highly academic commentary on the Bible to his uneducated cleaning woma...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Michael M. Faenza - As a social justice organization, the National Mental Health Association works toward a ...


Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Moore v. Anderson, Zeigler, Disharoon, Gallagher...


Government


Board OKs S.F. Budget

Jul. 17, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $4.9 billion budget Tuesday that includes cuts to the city att...


Judges and Judiciary


MADERA - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bulle...


Appellate Practice


SANTA ANA - An attorney said Tuesday that a court ruling that upheld Southern California Gas Co.'s right to dig trenches witho...


Litigation


Heir Sues to Halt LACMA Exhibit

Jul. 17, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - The heir to a renowned Russian art patron, who claims his grandfather's paintings were looted by Lenin during th...


Criminal


Lawyer Gets Probation For Insurance Scheme

Jul. 17, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Insurance claims by a San Diego lawyer for supposedly stolen cars backfired when two of the claims ended up by coi...


Environmental


Circuit Backs EPA In Rejecting Exception

Jul. 17, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Efforts by state farm interests to escape federal air pollution regulation were rebuffed Tuesday by the 9th U....


Discipline


SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the veteran Santa Clara County deputy public defender facing a criminal charge for allegedly mis...


Judges and Judiciary


GOP Plans Push to OK Judicial Nominees

Jul. 17, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Spearheading an offensive to pressure Democrats to approve President Bush's judicial nominees, Senate Republicans...


Government


Public Defender Blames DA for for Freed Suspects

Jul. 17, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Reigniting a three-week-old controversy, the Los Angeles County public defender this week blamed the release of ...


Government


Column By Garry Abrams - President Bush has been taking a lot of flak recently for a statement he made in this year's State of...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - Since Julie Anderson's 6-year-old son began receiving adult dosages of Paxil, the foster child reportedly has be...


Criminal


Tehin Charged in $2 Million Client Fraud

Jul. 17, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Suspended San Francisco lawyer Nikolai Tehin was charged in federal court Tuesday with one count each of money...


Government


A Promising Start

Jul. 17, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's shift from state court judge to Northern California's top federal cop threw him in...


Juvenile


Kids in Quaint Cottages Languish

Jul. 17, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - The storybook manor on Palm Street in the foothills of Altadena is the former estate of charismatic Benjamin "Bu...


Constitutional Law


Elusive Funds

Jul. 16, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Pammela Quinn - The Supreme Court recently considered the constitutionality of California's Holocaust Victim...


Administrative/Regulatory


Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has noted several times, appli...


Litigation


Burris Gets Unwanted Publicity

Jul. 16, 2003
By Karen Coleman

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Oakland plaintiffs attorney John Burris will pay Hayward $10,000 to settle the city's...


Litigation


New Strategy Guides Ageism Suits

Jul. 16, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's "old" folks aren't ready to be written off just yet. In January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ch...


Judges and Judiciary


Federal Judges' Argumentative Juices Flow

Jul. 16, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - There's nothing like terrorists, race, sodomy and a dose of "kooky" Stephen Yagman to get federal appeals court ...


Judges and Judiciary


No Love Lost Between Defense Bar and Judge

Jul. 16, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN JOSE - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bul...


Litigation


Thrill-Ride Operators Receive Major Setback

Jul. 16, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - In what one lawyer said was a major setback for thrill-ride operators defending injury suits, an appellate court...


Column By Garry Abrams - Afghanistan, source and site of so much conflict, has triggered a Los Angeles lawsuit that alleges tr...


Insurance


Jury Orders 22 Insurers to Pay $383 Million

Jul. 16, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Monday ordered 22 insurance companies to pay $383 million for refusing to in...


Litigation


Commission OKs Lawsuit Against SFO Building Firm

Jul. 16, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a public standoff with City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, the San Francisco Airport Commission on ...


Constitutional Law


Don't Go Outside 'Miranda,' Justices Warn

Jul. 16, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a hard line against deliberate Miranda violations, the California Supreme Court overturned a murder co...


Appellate Practice


Crusader Pushes for Recognition of Vegans

Jul. 16, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Jerold Friedman wanted to sue after he lost out on a job because he refused to take a vaccine made from chicken ...


Constitutional Law


Elusive Funds

Jul. 15, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Frank Kaplan - It's 1939. Imagine that you are a 10-year-old living in Poland and you and your family sudden...