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Criminal


Sheriff's Look Into Slain DA's Aid to Addict

Sep. 20, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Sheriff's investigators continued Wednesday to probe the personal life of slain Assistant District A...


Government


Panel Likely Will OK Conservative Nominee

Sep. 20, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - A conservative anti-abortion appeals court nominee appeared headed for approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee...


Criminal


Don't Confuse Ads With Editorial Page

Sep. 20, 2002
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Since Terence Hallinan took office in 1996, the district attorney's relationship with the San Francisco Chroni...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Couple Can Proceed Against Fertility Clinic

Sep. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit against a Cornell University medical clinic stemming from the fertility clinic scandal at University o...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - By William W. Oxley and William A. Molinski - While not likely to draw as many fans as a Timberwolves-Lakers p...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Choose Carefully

Sep. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Lee Jay Berman - If a mediation is going to have a chance at success, perhaps the most important decision is...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Forum Column - By James Acret - The new disclosure rules for arbitrators that went into effect July 1 provide a powerful demon...


Litigation


Court Allows Phone Customers' Class Suit

Sep. 19, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A class action claiming that a local phone company tricked its customers into paying millions in rental charges ...


Entertainment & Sports


Tentative Accord Reached in MGM Lawsuit

Sep. 19, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The long-running legal battle over the billion-dollar James Bond film franchise may have ended with a preliminar...


Government


Study Will Monitor Title IX Compliance

Sep. 19, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring the first study of compliance in California's public sc...


Criminal


Authorities Comb Slain DA's House for Clues

Sep. 19, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Sheriff's investigators Tuesday prepared to submit a "substantial" amount of evidence to the county'...


Education


Fund Memorializes Longtime Prosecutor

Sep. 19, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - A scholarship fund has been established at Southwestern University School of Law in memory of longtime Los Angel...


Criminal


Davis Signs 'Son of Sam,' DNA Bills

Sep. 19, 2002
By Philip Carrizosa

SACRAMENTO - A controversial bill that allows prison officials to use "reasonable force" to collect DNA samples from state pr...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon will become a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles bank vice president is jailed, loses her job, has her citizenship application revoked and faces d...


Communications


Varian Foes Seek Web Discovery

Sep. 19, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who are waging a pitched legal battle with their former employer over defamatory Internet ...


Criminal


Riders Blame the Neighborhood

Sep. 19, 2002
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - Defense arguments in the Oakland Riders police corruption case got off to a rough start Tuesday as the trial judge ...


Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Wilkison v Wiederkehr, 2002 Cal.App.LEXIS 4575 (Cal.App. A...


Government


Board Lawyers Recommend Limits on DA

Sep. 19, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Attorneys for Orange County recommended Tuesday that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas should strictly prohibit co...


Litigation


Milberg Weiss Goes After Bond Brokers

Sep. 19, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The country's biggest bond traders cheated customers out of billions by charging excessive fees on municipal ...


Criminal


Some Experts Question Arrests of Buffalo Six

Sep. 18, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Is mere attendance at a terrorist training camp enough to be convicted of giving "material support" to terrorists...


Native Americans


DENVER - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Interior Secretary Gale Norton and one of her assistants intentionally lied and fr...


Constitutional Law


Legal Logjam

Sep. 18, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kelli Sager and Rochelle Wilcox - The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the broad protections inc...


Criminal


DA Names Lead Prosecutor in Runnion Case

Sep. 18, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney David Brent, a veteran of death penalty cases, was named the lead prosecuto...


Litigation


Hip Implant Suit Is Speeded Up

Sep. 18, 2002
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the handful of lawsuits over allegedly faulty hip implants that remain before the Alameda County Superi...


International


Saddam Obviously Has Means to Attack U.S.

Sep. 18, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper - Closely associated with the war on terrorism" is the growing debate about when to attack I...


Juvenile


Law Limits Lawyers in Adoption Proceedings

Sep. 18, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys representing siblings in foster care or adoption proceedings may face conflicts of interest because of...


Judges and Judiciary


Magistrate Uses Human Touch

Sep. 18, 2002
By David Houston

RIVERSIDE - At Stephen G. Larson's induction ceremony as a U.S. magistrate judge two years ago, one of his old bosses recalled...


Criminal


Popular DA's Stabbing Death Puzzles Many

Sep. 18, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BAKERSFIELD - Stephen M. Tauzer, a veteran Kern County assistant district attorney who prosecuted dozens of murder cases and w...


Law Practice


Accused Attorney Resigns State Bar

Sep. 18, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney charged with stealing a $130,000 medical malpractice settlement from a dying client resig...