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Litigation


Commerce In Camera

Apr. 19, 2001
By Dawn Piimanu

It was business unusual among last year's Top 10 defense cases. While corporate contract matters dominated the list, only one ...


Litigation


Double Fault

Apr. 19, 2001
By Tamara Nowlin

With the plunk of an oil drill on the floor of the ocean, a controversy erupted on the land up above. It started with Lloyd's ...


Litigation


A Last Glance

Apr. 19, 2001
By Staff Writer

In a nutshell, a final summation of the Top 10 defense cases of 2000. ...


Litigation


In the Shadow of the Valley

Apr. 19, 2001
By Julie Sung

In Silicon Valley, big tech breakthroughs can spell big damage demands in litigation. And that's how defense counsel sees a re...


Litigation


Twice Is Nice

Apr. 19, 2001
By Ed Kimble

Litigation over issues related to inadequate child support payments is widespread in California. The surprise is that technolo...


Litigation


Flood Level

Apr. 19, 2001
By Tamara Nowlin

It started with a dripping waterspout that turned into a puddle big enough to drown a toy retailer's chance of hitting the big...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey Gaidos, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, died Sund...


Litigation


No Way Out

Apr. 19, 2001
By Tamara Nowlin

On a raw night in San Francisco, the screams of three firefighters trapped in a burning building could not be heard. Melanie S...


Litigation


Stock Indigestion

Apr. 19, 2001
By Ed Kimble

When National Semiconductor gobbled up Cyrix Corp., it gave shareholders $240 million worth of heartburn. But they got no reli...


Education


Member Says Board Broke 'Sunshine' Laws

Apr. 19, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - The sole holdout in a vote to settle a book-banning lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against ...


Constitutional Law


Information Society?

Apr. 19, 2001
By Columnist

Aaron Epstein owns a piece of real estate in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. When the city in 1998 expanded the Hollywood E...


Litigation


Caught in the Act

Apr. 19, 2001
By Ed Kimble

Vantive Corp. looked like a sure bet. The customer-service software developer went public in August 1995 at $6 a share. Rapid ...


Criminal


Legendary Public Defender Dies

Apr. 19, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick D. Smith, the first black attorney to be hired as a San Francisco public defender and to serve as th...


Labor/Employment


Judge Dismisses Fired PD's Discrimination Suit

Apr. 19, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer, who alleged she...


Litigation


Chanler Prevails Against As You Sow

Apr. 19, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a controversial plaintiffs lawyer who helped pioneer the aggressive pursuit of Proposition 6...


Immigration


Chinese Spiritualist Leaves Immigration Jail

Apr. 19, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - After 13 months, Zhang Hongbao, founder of Zhong Gong, a highly popular meditative discipline that China has bra...


Criminal


Ruling May End Double-Filing of Sex Charges

Apr. 19, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court decision handed down this week could mean an end to a prosecutorial tactic of charging d...


Government


Suit Seeks New Voting Machines

Apr. 19, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - The state's lotto machines are more reliable than many of its voting machines, according to a lawsuit challengin...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - In a stinging defeat for five law firms, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the firms are not ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - A Chicago architect won a contest to design a $300-million federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, which is ...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Critical Condition

Apr. 18, 2001
By Columnist

9th Circuit holds that hospitals' duties under "patient dumping" laws are triggered when the ambulance contacts a hospital.


Labor/Employment


Justices Uphold Prevailing-Wage Penalty

Apr. 18, 2001
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - California may withhold payment to subcontractors on state projects who fail to pay employees the state's prevail...


Judges and Judiciary


Spring Downers

Apr. 18, 2001
By Columnist

April is upon us once more, bringing all the portents of spring. For some, New Year's is the appropriate time for reflection, ...


Public Interest


Pondering an Amoral Foundation

Apr. 18, 2001
By Columnist

As we go farther beyond our Judeo-Christian roots to a secular and secularized view of morality, we seem to be losing our grip...


Firm Watch


Baker's Dozen Decamps From Haight Brown

Apr. 18, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo has added seven attorneys to its Los Angeles office and six attorneys to ...


International


There are moments in our lives that are defining moments. There are actions that we take in response that will significantly d...


Criminal


City Surplus Won't Derail DOJ Grant

Apr. 18, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice has taken steps to ensure that the city of Los Angeles will benefit from a $134 m...


Judges and Judiciary


Politicking Poses Dilemma for Judges

Apr. 18, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - By fighting ethics charges with a free-speech lawsuit, the embattled former Judge Patricia Gray is gambling th...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Lancaster Grannies in Iodine Case

Apr. 18, 2001
By Matthew Heller

LANCASTER - To hear their attorneys tell it, three grandmothers who sold iodine crystals out of a High Desert feed store have ...


Securities


Crosby Partner Indicted for Insider Trades

Apr. 18, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury on Monday indicted the partner heading the patent department for Oakland's Crosby Heafey ...