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Intellectual Property


Gas Peddle

Mar. 24, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

Working in a research facility in Brea more than a decade ago, Unocal scientists Peter Jessup and Michael Croudace positioned ...


Labor/Employment


Interactive Process

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

Since the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act and California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, the vast majority ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Watch

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

In many states, California included, the only legal requirement for becoming a judge is the length of time spent as a lawyer. ...


Securities


Quick Switch

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

When the market for public offerings closed down last year, many companies were faced with a difficult dilemma. They needed ca...


Technology & Science


Site Scorches Microwaved Dogs and Other Myths

Mar. 24, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Does anyone really believe that cats can suck the breath out of babies? Or that rice tossed at the bride and groom is dangerou...


Criminal


Male Mooner Keeps Pipe Under Wraps

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

March Madness. We all know that's about basketball. May madness is different. Maybe it was something in the Los Angeles air or...


Constitutional Law


ACLU Sues Feds to Remove Cross From Desert

Mar. 24, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Park Service on Thursday to force the removal of a 5-foot-t...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - A coalition of immigrant rights groups Thursday called on Congress to pass legislation to aid migrants, includin...


Criminal


Judge Gives Death Sentence to Strangler

Mar. 24, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A judge sentenced Kim Raymond Kopatz to death Thursday for strangling his wife and 3-year-old daughter with an ele...


Judges and Judiciary


Poche Plans Follow-up on Courtroom Conflict

Mar. 24, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - Retired state appeal court Justice Marc Poch, who abruptly withdrew from the Avant criminal trade secrets case Tues...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Twice-convicted murderer Robert Lee Massie will not have access to his priest for the final 45 minutes before ...


Litigation


Big-Ticket Decision Faces Judge in Ford Case

Mar. 24, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The East Bay judge behind the first-ever judicially mandated auto recall will be asked today for his understan...


Judges and Judiciary


Bush Ends ABA's Role Rating Judicial Nominees

Mar. 24, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - President Bush on Thursday ended the American Bar Association's historic and leading role rating potential nomin...


Entertainment & Sports


Oscars' Counsel Protect and Serve

Mar. 24, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - If all goes according to plan, audiences watching Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony will not see a single l...


Judges and Judiciary


Defense Contests Judge's Role in Plea Deal

Mar. 24, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Jane Ilknur Un spent 18 months in state prison for violating a plea agreement that an appellate court now say...


Government


Contributor to DA's Campaign Has Long History With Office

Mar. 24, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - When Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas withdrew a civil complaint filed against one of his campaign ...


Labor/Employment


Special Ed

Mar. 23, 2001
By Columnist

The Esberg court held that excluding a worker over 40 from an educational-assistance program did not constitute age discrimina...


Bankruptcy


Lawyer: $5.2 M, Pensioners: 0

Mar. 23, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-two years ago an aging Union City steel mill shut its doors, throwing 400 steelworkers off their jobs. ...


Labor/Employment


Pendulum Swing

Mar. 23, 2001
By Columnist

The Supreme Court held that the 11th Amendment bars state employees from recovering money damages under Title I of the America...


Law Practice


Sharks Should Stop Sleazy Solicitations

Mar. 23, 2001
By Columnist

Remember a long time ago when some people, like the American Bar Association, your law professor or people who write ethical r...


Environmental


Bush EPA Rejects Bay Area Air Pollution Plan

Mar. 23, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to reject local plans for cleaning up Bay Area smo...


Family


Preserving Premarital Agreements

Mar. 23, 2001
By Columnist

Pity those poor people who are asked to sign prenuptial agreements. They are clearly the downtrodden members of society who ne...


Personal Injury & Torts


Court Will Clear Air on Tobacco Immunity

Mar. 23, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify the retroactivity of the state's 1998 law stripping p...


Law Practice


Dream Team

Mar. 23, 2001
By Columnist

Better to prepare clients for possible outcomes than to surprise them at the end. ...


Litigation


SAN JOSE - The Avant criminal trade secrets case, once again, has descended into farce. Nearly four years after the Santa Clar...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Lawyers Say Ruling Has Little Impact

Mar. 23, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday upholding employers' use of mandatory arbitration agreements, California l...


Solo and Small Firms


SAN FRANCISCO -Two intellectual property partners, Robert Padway and Marcy Bergman, have left the San Francisco outpost of Por...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Gun dealers in Los Angeles will have to obtain the thumbprint of firearms purchasers under one of a pair of gun-...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - An insurance company that initially refused to pay more than $3.5 million to the paralyzed victim of a rollover ...


Labor/Employment


Research Attorneys' Union Rejects Raise Offer

Mar. 23, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A union representing Los Angeles Superior Court research attorneys, law clerks and paralegals has rejected a cou...