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Government


Lazarus vs. Herrera Moves to a Courtroom

Dec. 7, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Jim Lazarus took his opponent to court Wednesday to stop him from mailing last-minute ...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - More than 50 prosecutors, police investigators, coroners and defense attorneys have been called to testify in a ...


Litigation


Delgadillo: Extend New-Billboard Ban

Dec. 7, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has asked city leaders to extend a temporary ban on new billboards while he finds...


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has greenlighted a politically charged civil rights and defamation lawsuit which alleges th...


Government


SAN DIEGO - The City Council decided Tuesday to extend the Boy Scouts' lease of city property for 25 years, finding after four...


Judges and Judiciary


'Accountable Only to the Truth'

Dec. 7, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - If there were a J. Anthony Kline bumper sticker, it might read: To concur is human. To dissent is divine. "I t...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - After 20 months, the online legal referral service Sharktank.com is all washed up. The Rockland, Mass.-based com...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - A gay computer help-desk worker has sued his former employer, Countrywide Credit Industries Inc., claiming his f...


Law Practice


Many at Brobeck May Decline Offers

Dec. 7, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The legal community may learn soon whether San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will have to resort to...


Real Estate/Development


Right of Way

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist


Law Practice


This is the time of year when new associates finally are understanding what it means to join The Firm. Fresh out of law school...


Constitutional Law


Know-Nothings Chip Away at Democracy

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

In one sense, it is unfair to blame President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their incompetent blundering in tryi...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


What should a deep-pocketed American corporation do when faced with class actions of little merit but much potential to sap it...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Epiphany

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

"I see that you are a judge," my new physician said as he opened the file his nurse had created for my first annual physical. ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Damages Division

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Since the California Supreme Court revitalized the "economic loss" rule in its recent ruling in Aas v. Superior Court , 24 ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Slalom Course

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Arbitration offers many advantages over litigation, including speed and cost-savings. But these advantages only flow to those ...


Litigation


Defending Big Money

Dec. 6, 2001
By Christina Landers

Defense attorney Timothy Lambirth loves a good mystery, especially lawsuits that involve fraud and forgery. ...


Litigation


Dead Hand

Dec. 6, 2001
By Christina Landers

Sylvia Wagner and her brother Barney fought for years over money that they inherited from their father. And the battle continu...


Litigation


Judging the Jury

Dec. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Jurors often assess witnesses through "stereotyping," which can become the basis of the jurors' initial impression of those wi...


Litigation


Mediation Pioneer

Dec. 6, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

The case was more than complicated. It was fraught with pitfalls and filled with twists and turns including allegations of dru...


SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...


Front Page


PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road

Dec. 6, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...


Probate


More Discord Over Jerry's Guitars

Dec. 6, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...


Criminal


Judge Rejects Furrow Victim's Suit

Dec. 6, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road

Dec. 6, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...


Law Practice


Ease Limits on Practice, Panel Urges

Dec. 6, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...


Government


Board OKs Contracts Over Officials' Objections

Dec. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...


Constitutional Law


Media Fights to See Executions

Dec. 6, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...


Government


Long Beach Court May Get New Look

Dec. 6, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...