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Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...


Construction


SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...


LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...


Intellectual Property


Patent Pending

Mar. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...


Tax


9th Takes Maverick Course on Taxing Tips

Mar. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant tax victory to the restaurant industry, a split federal appeals court on Wednesday inval...


Labor/Employment


Deep Impact

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

Employers used to working under federal law must develop strategies for dealing with the new, more liberal California law.


Litigation


Econ Master

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

The economic damages expert is retained to value "hard-to-value" items. His opinion provides the trier-of-fact with a yardstic...


Litigation


Clean Hands?

Mar. 8, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

When someone comes into your home to perform work, you expect to be safe. That was the thrust of an argument that won $11.5 mi...


Litigation


Shape Shifter

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

While litigators believe that good expert witnesses are critical to trial success, not all jurors agree. Most jurors believe t...


Appellate Practice


True Friend

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

Amicus briefs that just rehash the arguments of the parties are disfavored by courts. ...


Civil Rights


Ex-Leader Contrived A Legacy

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

Attorney Craig Cascarano felt infuriated when he heard that Bill Clinton had commuted the 15-year sentence of drug kingpin Car...


Litigation


In Good Hands

Mar. 8, 2001
By Contributing Writer

From opening statements to expert testimony, development of the story is a key component that persuasive presentation tools sh...


Criminal


Hard Time

Mar. 8, 2001
By Columnist

Adult prisons are no place for children. The Daily Journal recently profiled Zena Long, 16, one of four girls incarcerated in ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Painless Mediation

Mar. 8, 2001

When Lee Jay Berman thinks about alternative dispute resolution, he thinks big. "I like working with complex, multiparty cases...


Personal Injury & Torts


Jerry Brown's Aide Faces Suit

Mar. 8, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for the woman who claims she was sexually harassed by the top aide to Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown s...


Constitutional Law


Sitting in a squad car, police scan your house with an Agema 210 thermal imager. The device, originally developed by the milit...


Labor/Employment


Living by The Truth

Mar. 8, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Clients measure a lawyer's worth in many ways. In Paul D. Scott's case, it was in boxes. When client Daniel Dean, 34, came to ...


Firm Watch


Holland & Knight Lands Real Estate Duo

Mar. 8, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight last week added two partners to its real estate practice group. R...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Like most people, Paul Metzler keeps waiting for a sunny day. And after March 16, it can even be a sunny weekday...


Elder Law


LOS ANGELES - A wake for Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Gary T. Rowse will take place Monday. Rowse, whose work on the Littl...


Criminal


DA Asks to Use Orange County Resources for His Foundation

Mar. 8, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, under fire for allegedly misusing public funds for his private fo...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling in the country, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that city libraries are not lia...


Intellectual Property


Napster Gets Three Days to Block Infringers

Mar. 8, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Closely adhering to appellate court orders, a federal judge on Tuesday gave Napster Inc. a 72-hour deadline to...


Personal Injury & Torts


Fighting Over Moe, Larry, Curly

Mar. 8, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Art or Commerce? The California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the boundary between the two while consid...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Good Intentions Lead To Court, Team's End

Mar. 8, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Nancy Mintie and Mark Adams seemed like the perfect team when they got together in March 1999 to help Mintie's p...


Criminal


E-mail users send and receive countless messages every day. Many messages are just so much junk, and I, for one, routinely del...


Government


City Wins Decisive Ruling in Discharge Lawsuit

Mar. 7, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE -- A federal judge dealt the fatal blow Monday to a complaint by a former senior deputy in the San Jose city attorney...


Criminal


Ex-Cop Pleads to Fraud

Mar. 7, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the appellate reversal of his arson-for-profit conviction, retired San Francisco police officer...


Intellectual Property


ONLINE OVERTURE

Mar. 7, 2001
By Columnist

When I read Judge Robert Beezer's opinion in the Napster case, I was, to borrow a phrase from the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey...


Firm Watch


Davis Puts Lawyer on Motor Vehicle Board

Mar. 7, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed Alan Skobin, vice president and general counsel of Galpin Motors Inc., to the Department o...