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Technology & Science


SAN FRANCISCO - Online retailer Amazon.com appears to have suffered a legal setback in its effort to enforce its 1-Click Web p...


Insurance


Industry Giant

Feb. 16, 2001
By Columnist

There are major recent financial and legal developments surrounding Lloyd's of London and its reinsurance vehicle, Equitas. Hi...


Criminal


SAN DIEGO - Authorities have busted a massive counterfeit sports memorabilia ring that victimized thousands of small-time trad...


Law Practice


The big case just paid off. I made all that money! Buy a yacht, a Ferrari, an island in Tahiti? Not! This is the perfect time ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - A mentally disabled Los Angeles man who was wrongfully imprisoned for two years won reinstatement Wednesday of h...


Criminal


Baca Hasn't Endorsed Delgadillo, Aide Says

Feb. 16, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The endorsement list of one of the four candidates in the April 10 election for Los Angeles city attorney contai...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Hatter Will Vacate Chief Post, Not Bench

Feb. 16, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Judge Terry Hatter Jr. will step down sometime in September as chief of the U.S. District Court for the Central ...


Judges and Judiciary


A Judicial Destiny for Mayorkas?

Feb. 16, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A California Democratic congresswoman has mounted an effort to get U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas nominated...


Criminal


Ventura Jury Convicts Skinhead of Stabbing

Feb. 16, 2001
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - A Ventura skinhead gang member has been convicted of raping, stabbing and bludgeoning to death a college student who...


Insurance


Back to the Future

Feb. 16, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - With a few legal victories in hand, and no defeats yet, attorneys for the property insurance industry are confident...


Insurance


Insurers Battle An Onslaught Of Y2K Claims

Feb. 16, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - More than a year after its debut as the biggest nonevent of the new millennium, Y2K has acquired a new life - in c...


Product Liability


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel, uncertain about the retroactivity of California's 1998 law stripping product liabil...


Law Practice


ABA Readies to Explore, Ponder, Then Debate

Feb. 16, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - When the American Bar Association gathers in San Diego for its midyear meeting today, it will, as it often does,...


Government


Senators Denounce Clinton Pardons

Feb. 16, 2001
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Senators looking into the pardon process Wednesday blasted former President Clinton for pardoning fugitive financ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Fears that the controversial "sweat patch" drug test may produce false positives has prompted the U.S. Adminis...


Entertainment & Sports


LOS ANGELES - What's up with all that noise about David Boies? The celebrity super-attorney known for his cheap suits and blac...


Civil Rights


Sand Trap

Feb. 15, 2001

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in PGA Tour v. Martin. In this case, the court likely will be forced t...


Labor/Employment


Strategic Alliance

Feb. 15, 2001
By Columnist

Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychare Services Inc., 24 Cal. 4th 83 (2000) has forged a strategic alliance between employme...


Litigation


Strictly Confidential

Feb. 15, 2001
By Columnist

The principle that the attorney-client privilege protects communications, not information, sounds like judicial double-talk, b...


Administrative/Regulatory


Defense Lawyers Fete Litigator Charles Grebing

Feb. 15, 2001
By Martin Kruming

SAN DIEGO - San Diego Defense Lawyers has honored Charles Grebing of Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Ryan for his litigation sk...


Labor/Employment


Sum of the Parts

Feb. 15, 2001
By Ed Kimble

It all adds up for Joseph G. Metscher, whose broad employment law background exposed him to countless employment related dispu...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Vive la Différence

Feb. 15, 2001
By Columnist

In spite of the many similarities, litigation and arbitration have differences that effective advocates use to achieve superio...


Large Firms


Litigator Sudduth, 46, Fought Prop 209

Feb. 15, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Tamu Sudduth, a young litigation partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, died Tuesday after a long...


Letters, Constitutional Law


There has been much discussion regarding the constitutionality of a voucher program to aid this country's schools. To begin wi...


Labor/Employment


Disability Law

Feb. 15, 2001
By Columnist

Under both the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Fair Employment & Housing Act, California employers must provide re...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Anticipating Surprises

Feb. 15, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Barry L. Cohen, of Encino's Law Offices of Barry L. Cohen, won $338,000 in a legal malpractice case, Baroody v. Law Offices of...


Litigation


Body Slam

Feb. 15, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

After four years on the ropes in a False Claims Act case, Bay Area lawyer Allen Ruby attributes his $135 million verdict and s...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The Trials of Mediation

Feb. 15, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Because mediation is faster, cheaper and more informal than traditional civil litigation, it often is painted with a bright sm...


Labor/Employment


Takedown

Feb. 15, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

The U.S. Army's all-terrain Bradley fighting vehicle couldn't keep out water, and the manufacturer's explanations were all wet...


Administrative/Regulatory


Another Job for Kelso

Feb. 15, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento law professor J. Clark Kelso, a well-known legal expert who lectures and writes about the justice s...