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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the second Newdow v. U.S. Congress , otherwise known as Newdow II , the 9th U.S...


Administrative/Regulatory


Memorial Service Is Set for Prosecutor, 34

Apr. 25, 2003
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday in Palos Verdes Estates for Deputy District Attorney Stephanie R. Wils...


Public Interest


Reporter's Notebook Large Firms By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Pooley took his daughter Catherine to the Lincoln Memoria...


Litigation


Swap Meet Vendors May Sue Orange County Fair

Apr. 25, 2003
By Mark Cromer

COSTA MESA - Angry swap meet vendors are threatening to sue the Orange County Fair Board for commandeering their spaces for a ...


Labor/Employment


California to Review Case of Boss' Affairs

Apr. 25, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a boss who has an affair with an employee and...


Constitutional Law


New Ploy For Pot Growers

Apr. 25, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SANTA CRUZ - With help from the city and county of Santa Cruz and a big-name law firm, medical marijuana advocates are trying...


Immigration


Van Der Hout Still Pushing Civil Rights

Apr. 25, 2003
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, San Francisco immigration lawyer Marc Van Der Hout will once again stand before a federal appeals...


Civil Rights


EUREKA - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will continue to handle the police brutality case brought by antilogging protesters...


Criminal


Group Against Death Penalty Lauds Heroes

Apr. 25, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan were honored Tuesday night in Beverly Hills f...


Litigation


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that state courts are not required to give full weight to the laws ...


Government


Court Signals Speech Protection

Apr. 25, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will protect some types of corporate communications under the ...


Litigation


RV Maker Faces Suit in Riverside

Apr. 25, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury will decide whether the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturer is liable for the deat...


Personal Injury & Torts


Parents Can Sue School for Not Preventing Harm

Apr. 25, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - The owners of a Costa Mesa preschool could be liable for damages for the murders of two children by a man who de...


Column By Garry Abrams - Fly naked. Work naked. To ensure a more perfect war on terrorism, the federal government must quit ta...


Juvenile


Closing of Youth Shelter Marks End of an Era

Apr. 25, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - All that is left of the children now are their belongings - hundreds of bags stacked to the ceiling in spots and...


Environmental


Taking on Timber

Apr. 25, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Gallegos knew he was taking a political risk by going after Humboldt County timber giant Pacific Lumber ...


Focus Column - Construction Law - By Robert C. Barnes - SB800, known as the "Fix-It Bill," imposes an ambitious new scheme for...


Constitutional Law


Screening Speech

Apr. 24, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Guylyn R. Cummins - The lightning growth of the Internet has created legal issues in cyberspace that potenti...


Criminal


Hallinan: No Conspiracy Charges

Apr. 24, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan confirmed Tuesday that he will not challenge a judge's ruling earlier this...


Appellate Practice


Court Reinstates Punitive Damages

Apr. 24, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court Tuesday upheld a $1.15 million wrongful-termination award and reinstated a $1.15 million...


Transportation


Activists on 'No-Fly' List Sue FBI

Apr. 24, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Two peace activists and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the FBI and other government ag...


Large Firms


Mittelstaedt Opening Jones Day Office

Apr. 24, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Mittelstaedt, a lead trial counsel for ChevronTexaco, resigned Tuesday from Pillsbury Winthrop after 2...


Labor/Employment


WASHINGTON - Ruling on a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday adopted a definition of "em...


Discipline


Bill Allowing Disclosures To Assembly

Apr. 24, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - California attorneys may join colleagues in 37 other states who are allowed to disclose a client's plans to kill...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


WASHINGTON -Supreme Court justices were highly skeptical Tuesday of allowing individual claims in arbitration to expand into a...


Criminal


Panel Rejects Plan to Toughen Porn Law

Apr. 24, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' effort to bring the state's child pornography law covering posses...


Criminal


Ryan to State: Slow Down the Death Penalty

Apr. 24, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan said Tuesday that California should temporarily halt executions and appoint a c...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Tuesday that in recent years police withheld many more potential officer-mis...


Entertainment & Sports


Column by Garry Abrams - Spider-Man, the comic-book character that has spun box-office gold for Hollywood's truly needy, has b...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES -Three Los Angeles-based law firms have filed a federal class action against San Bernardino County alleging that t...