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Newsrack Bid Unfair, Jury Finds

Oct. 12, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday ordered national billboard giant Eller Media Co., to pay $9.8 million in damages for f...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Case Against Microsoft Strengthened By S.F. Judge

Oct. 12, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - California jurors hearing a massive class action against Microsoft Corp. will be told that the company abused ...


Product Liability


Attorneys Debate Applying Canon Law in Abuse Cases

Oct. 12, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - A key factor in priest molestation lawsuits is canon law, a 1,400-year-old body of religious doctrine that defin...


Immigration


Death by Policy

Oct. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Aug. 5, 1997, 12 migrants, including three women and a small child, were attempting ...


Labor/Employment


Don't Become a Legend in Job-Hunting Annals

Oct. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Halloween is a few weeks away, but at various times throughout the year, it appears ...


Law Practice


Aviation Attorney Won Surfing Competitions

Oct. 11, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense attorney and Malibu surfer Miriam Piwoz Goodman has died. Goodman died Sept. 20 at Los Robles R...


Law Practice


Life After Leaving Dean's Post Will Be Busy As Ever

Oct. 11, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Keane boarded his plane for Hawaii secure in his job. Golden Gate University Law School had just offered...


Judges and Judiciary


Candidates Reveal Who Backs Them

Oct. 11, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Two lawyers running to become a judge in San Francisco won't break the bank in their quest, if their most rece...


Criminal


Charges Filed in Schools Fraud

Oct. 11, 2002
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged former San Francisco school district manager Timothy Tronson on Wed...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Greg Garbacz - Beginning July 1, 2004, California workers will be able to take up to six w...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, already in prison for their roles in the notorious dog-mauling...


Personal Injury & Torts


Teens Who Had Sex With Officer Can Sue

Oct. 11, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age girls who had sex with a Murrieta police officer while participating in a Police Explorer Program c...


Labor/Employment


LOS ANGELES - President Bush's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen ports in California, Oregon and Washington has renewed de...


Law Practice


Garcetti Captures Beauty of Ironworkers' Lives

Oct. 11, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Driven from office two years ago by the voters, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti could h...


Entertainment & Sports


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver some good news to the Walt Disney Co. and its cherished Mickey Mouse, ...


Large Firms


'What Was Mary Cranston Thinking?'

Oct. 11, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...


Column by Garry Abrams - The documentary movie "Biggie and Tupac" probably has a great future on cable TV - on those channels...


Labor/Employment


Justices Favor Comity in Noncompete Pacts

Oct. 11, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

FRESNO - State Supreme Court justices frowned Wednesday on a California company's race to the Los Angeles courthouse to help a...


Criminal


Judge Refuses Bail for Actor Robert Blake

Oct. 10, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...


Product Liability


How Low Will Jury Award Go, Experts Wonder

Oct. 10, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...


Law Practice


Defender-Brothers Win Acclaim

Oct. 10, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Greg Johnson has come a long way since earning $350 for his racy role as Carl in the early 1980s soft porn flick "...


Entertainment & Sports


Ovitz Fired Whistle-Blowing Executive, Suit Says

Oct. 10, 2002
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than six months, Michael Ovitz has been hit with a lawsuit, this time from a former ...


Real Estate/Development


$50 Million Settlement In Title Company Suits

Oct. 10, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Six major title companies agreed Tuesday to pay about $50 million to settle claims that they charged customers...


Government


Senate Judiciary Approves Three California Nominees

Oct. 10, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Two California judicial nominees and one U.S. attorney hopeful won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...


Criminal


High Court Sifts Liars' Testimony

Oct. 10, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

FRESNO - The California Supreme Court did not appear willing Tuesday to spare condemned killer Larry Roberts, despite a judge'...


Criminal


George Defends Davis on Parole Denials

Oct. 10, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

FRESNO - With the California Supreme Court apparently divided, Chief Justice Ronald George voiced strong support Tuesday for G...


Criminal


Testimony In Vietnam Protest Trial

Oct. 10, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In harrowing testimony, a Vietnamese woman on trial for attempted arson and terrorism described to a federal j...


Front Page


Justices Consider Wireless Auction Dispute

Oct. 10, 2002
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...


Litigation


Judge Halts Seizure of House Because of $51 Underpayment

Oct. 10, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday granted an order temporarily stopping Washington Mutual Home Loans Inc. from forecl...