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Transportation


Road Payout

Oct. 25, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...


Law Practice


Accusations Accompany 'A Lawyer's Life'

Oct. 25, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...


Construction


Window Framer Must Pay Owners $1 Million

Oct. 25, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...


Judges and Judiciary


Fresno Attorney Named to Bench

Oct. 25, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...


Law Practice


Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...


Litigation


Bankruptcy Is No Refuge for Rape Defendant

Oct. 25, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...


Criminal


Juvenile Acquitted in Murder Case

Oct. 25, 2002
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...


Personal Injury & Torts


Sex Slave Case Now in Civil Court

Oct. 25, 2002
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...


Intellectual Property


Obscure Specialty

Oct. 25, 2002
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...


Large Firms


Partner Remained Committed Despite Illness

Oct. 25, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...


Criminal


Boss Testifies He Questioned Stories of Death

Oct. 25, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...


Litigation


Who Is Responsible When Teens Drink?

Oct. 25, 2002
By Matthew Heller

SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...


Environmental


Judge Says Order Isn't Needed

Oct. 25, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...


Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp., B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...


Government


Vetoing Liberties

Oct. 24, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review o...


Family


Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...


Appellate Practice


Varied Experience Serves Justice

Oct. 24, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

SANTA ANA - Appeals court Justice Richard M. Aronson turned on to law when he was 12 after watching the 1959 Otto Preminger cl...


Product Liability


Toyota Seat Belt Blamed for Paralysis

Oct. 24, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being l...


Criminal


Toxicologist Looked High, Paramedic Testifies

Oct. 24, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A paramedic who vainly tried to revive Kristin M. Rossum's husband testified Tuesday that the woman's behavior dur...


Constitutional Law


Back On the Front Line

Oct. 24, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - On June 30, 1971 - the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that newspapers could continue publishing the top ...


Government


Putting Political Reform to the Test

Oct. 24, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw influence-peddling everywhere - from Irvine, ...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - Reports that the problem-plagued MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte may soon close to settle a federal class...


Law Practice


Attorney Ran in the Los Angeles Marathon

Oct. 24, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

COSTA MESA - Memorial services took place Saturday for Seth Cochran Thompson, a lawyer with Orange County's McCormick, Kidman ...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - Non-California residents who pay extra to attend public colleges and universities here probably shouldn't coun...


Criminal


Battered Ballot

Oct. 24, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Gov. Gray Davis cannot usurp the liberty of deserving inmates, especially battered women w...


Government


Forum Column - By Geoffrey L. Garfield - Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world, a glamorous place where American...


Judges and Judiciary


PALO ALTO - Two Supreme Court justices traveled back in time at Stanford University last weekend to redecide a case that shape...


Judges and Judiciary


Have Card Table, Will Preside

Oct. 24, 2002
By Xenia Kobylarz

SANTA ROSA - When retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gayle Guynup decided to become an assigned judge after retirement...