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Criminal


Hells Angels Search Held Illegal

Jul. 18, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - In a legal victory for the notorious motorcycle club, a federal judge has ruled authorities lacked probable cause t...


Judges and Judiciary


Triple Threat

Jul. 18, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of the state's Independent System Operator, one of Gov. Gray Davis' top advisers on the energy cr...


LOS ANGELES - I'm apparently not supposed to know this, but late last week Rafael Perez, the cocaine-stealing LAPD officer who...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington s...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington st...


Tax


Bay Area Beckons IRS

Jul. 18, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its ...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. Judges Seeking To Hike Judicial Pay

Jul. 18, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

BIG SKY, Mont. - Boosting federal judicial pay and a potential increase in hourly rates paid to appointed criminal lawyers dre...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Susan Creigton, one of the country's most outspoken critics of Mi...


Environmental


Prop. 65 Changes Could Curtail Lawsuits

Jul. 18, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - At the behest of Attorney General Bill Lockyer, lawmakers have undertaken the first significant changes to Pro...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a male Washing...


Criminal


Judge Dismisses Eavesdropping Charges

Jul. 17, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday dismissed eavesdropping and conspiracy to commit eavesdropping charges against Glend...


Harriet Welch, managing partner for the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, isn't sure where the rumors abou...


Transactions


Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, through its holding company Mission Energy Holding, ...


Transactions


Directors and executive officers of three California banks have helped their businesses go public without underwriters. Premie...


San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen and fiance Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe called off their merger plans...


Intellectual Property


Software Situation

Jul. 17, 2001
By Columnist

It is not safe to assume that a license is actually open-source code until you have reviewed the terms. ...


International


Brothers in Arms

Jul. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Shortly after World War II ended, the United States reneged on a promise to provide medical and pension benefits to Filipinos ...


International


Mr. Fix-It

Jul. 17, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Arriving at Bangkok International Airport, former assistant U.S. attorney Marc Greenberg hadn't anticipated that U.S. Embassy ...


Littler Mendelson partner Alan Levins, of course an employment lawyer, has his name blazoned across the cover of a new book, "...


Transactions


Two energy companies have formed a new alternative-fuel enterprise. Oilman T. Boone Pickens' Pickens Fuel Corp. and BCG eFuels...


Transactions


Gores Technology Group, through its affiliate GTG PC Holdings, has bought computer manufacturer Micron PC from its parent, Mic...


Entertainment & Sports


Franchise, Morgan Creek Duke It Out In Dual Suits

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

It sounds like a Century City version of Ultimate Lawyer Fighting Championship. So let's hide the women, children and Jaguar c...


Transactions


Private equity firms J.W. Childs Associates L.P. and Halifax Group L.L.C. will buy diagnostic-imaging company InSight Health S...


Firm Watch


San Francisco executive-compensation lawyer Virginia Gibson joined the partnership at New York's White & Case on July 9. G...


Large Firms


Corporate Lawyer Returns to Brown Raysman

Jul. 17, 2001
By Victoria Newman

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Milstein Felder & Steiner has welcomed back corporate lawyer John G....


Intellectual Property


Digital Future

Jul. 17, 2001
By Columnist

The future of movies is digital. Digital production and distribution of motion pictures is inevitable. Lately, you cannot pick...


Bankruptcy


Creditor Wholesalers Don't Get Immunity

Jul. 17, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the powerful creditors' committee in the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy, who are also majo...


Public Interest


SAN FRANCISCO - Six students and a faculty member from the University of San Francisco School of Law are spending the summer i...


Criminal


Go With What Works

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Shouldn't drug users who cause harm to others raise different questions, and answers, than users such as Robert Downey Jr. who...


Transactions


Sunnyvale's Monolithic System Technology Inc. went public June 28 with an initial offering worth $50 million. Monolithic licen...