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Entertainment & Sports


Bond's Agency Can't Sue Former Agent

Oct. 19, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills Sports Council cannot sue Barry Bonds' former agent and his lawyers for malicious prosecution, a ...


Criminal


Enron Trader Pleads Guilty in State Crisis

Oct. 19, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - "I was just trying to maximize the profit for Enron," said Enron's former chief energy trader in Portland, Ore...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica City Council candidate Jerry Rubin is fasting to protest war on Iraq. Rubin calls peace activism hi...


Government


Forum Column - By Richard Riordan - Los Angeles businesses are resilient. In the past decade, we have worked together to creat...


Judges and Judiciary


Family History Inspires Judge

Oct. 19, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

FULLERTON - When the Aztec Skydivers parachute onto the campus of California State University, Fullerton, next month, they wil...


Intellectual Property


Visas Are Denied in Elcomsoft Trial

Oct. 19, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could be in danger because two key Russian witn...


Entertainment & Sports


Giants vs. Angels Is Plenty Adversarial

Oct. 19, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - With lawyers and their staffs trading wagers and boasts, scrambling for game tickets and wearing their basebal...


Criminal


Doctor Describes Victim's Drug Levels

Oct. 19, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An expert on a powerful opiate found in the body of Kristin M. Rossum's husband said the drug's effect would have ...


Criminal


Bail Hearing Parties Argue Press Access

Oct. 19, 2002
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tronson, the former San Francisco school district manager charged in a conspiracy to steal $850,000 in...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge has effectively overridden a state agency's determination that a commonly used chemical pos...


Discipline


State Bar Investigators Shut Counsel's Offices

Oct. 19, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Police and California State Bar investigators closed the offices of attorney Hector Garcia after allegations tha...


Entertainment & Sports


Ball's Fate Evokes Civil Society's Fate

Oct. 19, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers opened a trial Thursday in a case they said concerns America, a little boy's dream, an assault and a m...


Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...


Bankruptcy


O'Melveny Stalwart Represented Lakers Owner

Oct. 19, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for O'Melveny & Myers corporate attorney John H. Roney were Thursday in Hermosa Beach. Ron...


Litigation


Freeway Accident Brings $13 Million Pact

Oct. 19, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

LOS ANGELES - A freak highway accident in Irvine that left a motorist brain damaged has resulted in a $13 million settlement. ...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - These are uncertain economic times. No business has been able to escape the pinch of t...


Criminal


Court Dismisses Drug Charge Against Ryder

Oct. 18, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A judge Wednesday dismissed a felony drug charge against actress Winona Ryder, and set Oct. 24 for her to stand ...


Criminal


Meth Users Win Favor in Two Courts Of Appeal

Oct. 18, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Drivers under the influence of drugs found friends in high places Wednesday. At the 1st District Court of Appe...


Law Practice


Who's Bugging Lynne Stewart?

Oct. 18, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General John Ashcroft's war on the attorney-client privilege, asserts radical lawyer Lynne F. Stewart...


Column by Garry Abrams - If they wanted to, the French maker and the U.S. distributor of Zig-Zag cigarette papers could roll t...


Appellate Practice


Case Tests Decision to Ban Death of Retarded

Oct. 18, 2002
By Claude Walbert

EL CENTRO - A hearing set to begin this morning in the Imperial County courtroom of Judge James H. Harmon will offer one of th...


Appellate Practice


Court May OK Retrial for Man On Death Row

Oct. 18, 2002
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to give a black Texas death row inmate another shot at proving that...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Judge Rules Suits Against El Paso Can Move Ahead

Oct. 18, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, failed to persuade a San Diego judge Wednesd...


Criminal


New Indictment In Schools Fraud

Oct. 18, 2002
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company were indict...


Criminal


Co-Worker Testfies Against Murder Defendant

Oct. 18, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - One of Kristin M. Rossum's former co-workers testified Wednesday that he had observed signs of a romantic relation...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names Four to State Benches

Oct. 18, 2002
By Matthew Heller

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday unveiled four judicial appointments, including those of civil litigators Rafael A. ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Sandwiched between sessions on retirement planning and the latest appellate opinions, one of the liveliest ses...


Criminal


Officers Arrest Man for Threatening Reporter

Oct. 18, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Organized crime officers Wednesday arrested a Westwood man on charges of threatening a Los Angeles Times writer ...


Large Firms


Crosby Likes the Look of Merger

Oct. 18, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May confirmed Wednesday that a vote on its union with Pittsburgh's Reed ...


Civil Rights


District Forced Teacher Out, Lawyer Says

Oct. 18, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A former Locke High School art teacher was forced out by the Los Angeles Unified School District because she enc...