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Judges and Judiciary


Claims Court Nominee Draws Fire

Jul. 10, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...


Environmental


Judge Tosses Lead Paint Suit

Jul. 10, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...


Law Practice


Attorney Harry Wartnick

Jul. 10, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...


Litigation


Curbing Poor Driving Habits

Jul. 10, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Ashcroft, Mexico AG Announce Drug Charges

Jul. 10, 2003
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...


Litigation


Lockyer Renews Attack on 17200 Firms

Jul. 10, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...


Criminal


Expungements of Past Convictions Mount

Jul. 10, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...


Administrative/Regulatory


Family Law Judge Keeps His Cool

Jul. 9, 2003
By Claude Walbert

VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...


Constitutional Law


Equal Opportunity

Jul. 9, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...


Media


Panel Narrows Suit Against Media

Jul. 9, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Is Granted More Legal Fees

Jul. 9, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...


Government


Key Vote Looms on Pick for Claims Court

Jul. 9, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The Senate will vote today on a motion to allow for a final up-or-down vote on a nominee for the U.S. Court of Fe...


Labor/Employment


OSHA Doesn't Apply at Home

Jul. 9, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - In a ruling that prevents some claims by unlicensed contractors injured on the job, the California Supreme Court ...


Government


DCA Rules In Probation Staff Ruckus

Jul. 9, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a $20,000 verdict against Alameda County and controversial former probation...


Media


SANTA ANA - The Orange County Register was slapped with a class action Monday alleging that the newspaper company classifies i...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - The families of three of the 18 people who died in a 2001 charter jet crash in Aspen agreed Monday to a last-min...


Health Care & Hospital Law


SAN JOSE - A federal judge sympathized with the operators of a Santa Cruz County cooperative seeking an injunction to grow med...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - It may be a cold, blustery, nasty, very expensive day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land before the n...


Immigration


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple who fled ...


Litigation


SAN LUIS OBISPO - Attorney James McKiernan is taking a novel approach in an attempt to obtain compensation for the death of a ...


Entertainment & Sports


Ball Litigant Has Blown Save

Jul. 9, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel fe...


Constitutional Law


Equal Opportunity

Jul. 8, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Reid Alan Cox - The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and according to a five-justice majority in Grutter v....


Litigation


It's not every day that your client is the California Supreme Court. But Nancy Pritikin of San Francisco's Littler Mendelson r...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Pharmaceutical Firms Will Join Forces

Jul. 8, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

In another massive biotechnology deal, Biogen Inc. and Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp. have agreed to merge in a multibillion-dolla...


Firm Watch


Sean Kneafsey has left Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman to get in at the ground level of Los Angeles' Palmer & Lombardi. Kne...


Investments


Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has closed a $773-million financing deal that paves the way for construction to...


Administrative/Regulatory


Solano Judge Came a Long Way

Jul. 8, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge R. Michael Smith has a knack for details, and he uses it both in the courtroom ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- San Bernardino County

Jul. 8, 2003
By Jack Briggs

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In what is being called one of the largest office leases in the Inland Empire during the past two years, St...