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Real Estate/Development


Pomona Valley Lawyer Led Legal Community

Dec. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...


Judges and Judiciary


VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...


Criminal


Marin Charges Prosecutor With Assault

Dec. 6, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...


Constitutional Law


SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Unlikely Friendship Changes Lives

Dec. 6, 2001
By Amy Tatko

LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...


Military Law


GOP Senators Say Tribunal Talks Waste Precious Time

Dec. 6, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...


Civil Rights


Tarnished Shield

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...


Appellate Practice


Remand Roulette

Dec. 5, 2001
By Columnist

You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...


Government


Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...


Large Firms


Procopio Cory Acquires San Diego Firm

Dec. 5, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...


LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...


Personal Injury & Torts


Jury Finds Railroad Not at Fault in Boy's Death

Dec. 5, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

VICTORVILLE - The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. was not responsible for the death of a 10-year-old boy who was ...


Criminal


Parents Blame School for Shooting Attack

Dec. 5, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Is it possible to guard against the violent acts of a zealot? According to Eleanor and Charles Kadish, the answe...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Sara Jane Olson's lawyers did a terrific job Monday of proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have been st...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist organization's bid to formally represent Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s 4.5 million ratepa...


Criminal


Lifers Forevermore

Dec. 4, 2001
By Columnist

Once again, our federal court of appeals has decided to impose its own view of policy on the people of California, telling the...


Law Practice


Money Crawl

Dec. 4, 2001
By Columnist

As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...


Criminal


'Pregnant Penguin' Pilfers Soapy Product

Dec. 4, 2001
By Columnist

Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...


Criminal


Lifers Forevermore

Dec. 4, 2001
By Columnist

As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...


Government


Useful Tools

Dec. 4, 2001
By Columnist

Five long weeks after the Bush administration first proposed its anti-terrorism legislation following the Sept. 11 attacks, P...


Government


WASHINGTON - Taking on a major First Amendment issue, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether states can bar ju...


Transactions


San Jose's Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Silicon Perspective Corp. of Santa Clara. Neither company would d...


Transactions


Quick Deal Defies Conventional Wisdom

Dec. 4, 2001
By Contributing Writer

In today's economy, the quick deals are usually the ones that involve at least one struggling company. So when a deal between ...


Cupertino-based Magma Design Automation Inc. raised $63 million in an initial public offering of the company's stock. New York...


Entertainment & Sports


In Hollywood, duking it out at a celebrity hangout is a tradition, right up there with throwing cell phones at assistants and ...


Apogent Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, N.H., announced that it acquired Forefront Diagnostics Inc. of Laguna Hills. Neither ...


Entertainment & Sports


Mike Elliott can't figure out Eddie Nash. Elliott is a film producer who has managed to finish 80 low-budget films, ranging fr...


Entertainment & Sports


Attorney Finds Business Entertaining

Dec. 4, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Michael Garfinkel, partner with Los Angeles' Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, says that television can spice up the average ...


John Ponder of Sparber Ferguson Ponder & Ryan has left his full-service firm after 15 years, for the San Diego office of S...