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Corporate


Firm Faces Suit for Founder's Promises

Dec. 23, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County man filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Herbalife International's new CEO is reneging on at lea...


Labor/Employment


Legal Jolt

Dec. 23, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Sam Majdi used to enjoy his job in the electronics field. His dedication even earned him a sales-manager-of-the-ye...


Law Practice


Merger of Legal Aid Offices Takes Effect Jan. 1

Dec. 23, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Two veteran, local legal aid offices have merged. The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Long Beach Legal A...


Securities


Risky Business

Dec. 23, 2000
By Columnist

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a new affirmative defense to insider-trading violations. ...


Litigation


Competing Firms File Suits for Orphan, 10

Dec. 23, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - With the filing of a new lawsuit Wednesday, a 10-year-old Guatemalan girl orphaned by the Alaska Airlines crash an...


Litigation


Court Reverses Defamation Ruling

Dec. 23, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney's public claim that a detective sexually molested a witness is privileged, not defamatory, an...


Criminal


Officials Release Heir Of Max Factor Fortune

Dec. 23, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - Authorities on Thursday released from custody an heir to the Max Factor fortune while he awaits a Jan. 17 prelim...


Criminal


Judge May Rule Today On New Rampart Trial

Dec. 23, 2000
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge gave no hint Thursday of how she is leaning in the motion for a new trial for three convi...


Labor/Employment


Tangled Maze

Dec. 23, 2000
By Columnist

On Nov. 14, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the final Ergonomics Standard, a far-reaching rul...


Government


County Raises Director's Salary $10,000

Dec. 23, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - With little fanfare, Anita Bock, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, this month rece...


LOS ANGELES - A single bouquet of fuchsias and white carnations Thursday signaled where on the 9th floor balcony of the downto...


Litigation


Judges Urged to Set Cites Lower

Dec. 23, 2000
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The "shall" issue isn't the only thorny question of legal prose preoccupying Bryan A. Garner. Add footnotes to...


Litigation


Thou Shalt Use 'Must'

Dec. 23, 2000
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Now we say "shall," but should we say "must?" To Texas lexicographer and attorney Bryan A. Garner, it's a no-b...


Constitutional Law


Churches Exempt From Historic Preservation

Dec. 23, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state government is not granting unconstitutional favor...


Entertainment & Sports


Steven Seagal Not Above the Lawsuit

Dec. 23, 2000
By Columnist

LOS ANGELES - In the business world, a man's best friend is often his pit bull, as in attack-dog lawyer. The Eye finds it hear...


Immigration


Immigrant Utility

Dec. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Now that we know who the next president will be, the question in everyone's mind is: How will the presidency of George W. Bush...


Public Interest


Year-End Reflections

Dec. 22, 2000
By Columnist

A colleague told me that my monthly columns are becoming predictable. "You're cheating," he said. "Holidays, ugh! From St. Pat...


Insurance


Avoiding Potholes

Dec. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Although it has been somewhat slower to go online than other businesses, the insurance industry has made a significant commitm...


Litigation


Suit: Social Security Evaluations Are Biased

Dec. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A suit charging state and federal agencies with systematically denying benefits to California' homeless and di...


Criminal


Retrial in Case of Non-Lawyer Prosecutor

Dec. 22, 2000
By Craig Anderson

REDWOOD CITY - A San Mateo County judge granted a new trial to a convicted defendant Wednesday because the prosecutor in the c...


Law Practice


Council Pushes for Greater Diversity

Dec. 22, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the LSAT, has embarked on a $10-million, five-year effort t...


Insurance


Policy and Principle

Dec. 22, 2000
By Columnist

The courts' decisions will provide guidance to reduce and narrow the scope of future insurance-coverage disputes. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Charity Abounds Among Legal Groups

Dec. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The holiday lights haven't been extinguished at the Bay Area's voluntary bar associations this year, notwithst...


Law Practice


Defense Institute Names Vice-Chair

Dec. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Defense Research Institute has appointed Los Angeles attorney Keri Lynn Bush vice-chair of the institute's L...


Insurance


Quake Claims Bill Draws Court Challenge

Dec. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Insurers filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in another attempt to challenge the constitutionality...


Law Practice


In a tight job market, the methods firms use to ascertain their employment needs and to select future employees must be highly...


Constitutional Law


Smiting Voting Rights

Dec. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Although gallons of ink have been spilled about how the right-wing Supreme Court majority installed George W. Bush as presiden...


Criminal


Sacramento's Longest Case Is Over

Dec. 22, 2000
By Contributing Writer

SACRAMENTO - Two men convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Sacramento woman who was grocery shopping 15 years ago we...


Criminal


Court Lets Three Doctors Evaluate Predator

Dec. 22, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ruled that more than two doctors can evaluate a person in support of a sexually violent p...


Education


University Officials Deny ACLU Claims of Exclusion

Dec. 22, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - University of California officials denied charges yesterday that they arbitrarily excluded students of color fro...