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Government


Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Shooting Charge

Sep. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

An officer with Los Angeles Police Department's 77th division pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge that he shot an unarmed ...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Judge Signs His Plea Deal

Sep. 16, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III will plead guilty to mail fraud and a criminal scheme "to defr...


Criminal


Immigration Agent Pleads to Smuggling Scam

Sep. 16, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

For the past dozen years, Jesse Jerry Gardona toiled away in a nondescript, one-story concrete building in the industrial Los ...


Criminal


Judge Sends Murder Case to Juvenile Court

Sep. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Thursday agreed with defense attorneys that the county grand jury was no...


Litigation


Court of Babel

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Those who point out problems with poor interpreting too often focus on bad interpreters and do not criticize the system that a...


Government


WASHINGTON - At the urging of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Senate Republicans quietly have inserted into a pending appr...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Litigation: The True Olympic 2000 Event

Sep. 16, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

In the end, litigation may become the true Olympian sport. As the 2000 Summer Games open today in Sydney, Australia, Olympians...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - While the state's judges and lawyers gather for professional schmoozing at their annual conventions this weeke...


Judges and Judiciary


Commission Amends Charges, Postpones Its Hearing on Judge

Sep. 16, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

The Commission on Judicial Performance postponed a hearing scheduled for next Monday after issuing an amended notice of charge...


Intellectual Property


Blue-Light Special?

Sep. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Many examiners do not review the specification of a patent to determine if a claim is supported therein. ...


Public Interest


Exit Strategy

Sep. 15, 2000
By Columnist

When thinking of moving to a branch office, consider whether the firm is managed as a unified profit center or if branches are...


Labor/Employment


Equitable Enforcement

Sep. 15, 2000
By Columnist

In Armendariz, the California Supreme Court rejected the 9th Circuit's analysis on mandatory arbitration agreements. ...


Labor/Employment


Fear Itself

Sep. 15, 2000
By Columnist

An employee who was physically threatened by his boss wins a new trial. ...


Insurance


Insurance Data Is Opened to Public

Sep. 15, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Data reports from insurance companies that detail policies sold and canceled in each of the state's ZIP codes ...


Discipline


Perilous Piggy

Sep. 15, 2000
By Columnist

Mishandling client trust accounts is the surest way to get into trouble with the State Bar. By JoAnne Earls Robbins. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Must Set Restitution Herself

Sep. 15, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

In an unpublished opinion, a state appellate court has ruled that a judge cannot abdicate its judicial functions to the Depart...


Constitutional Law


ADULT PROGRAMMING

Sep. 15, 2000
By Columnist

By James Wheaton. People like to look at dirty pictures. Our Constitution protects that right. And present day successors to t...


Judges and Judiciary


After more than six years of wending through the appeals process, Faith Schreiber has finally found some solace. She has been ...


Law Practice


Change of Counsel Again Delays Trial

Sep. 15, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The murder trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a former public defender nearly a year ago was postponed Wednesday when ...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Claiming that President Clinton has abused the power to make recess appointments, and violated a pact he made wit...


Government


WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and his Republican rival's wife, social activist Lynn...


Government


Services will take place Saturday for former state legislator and retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert S. Stevens. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Services Planned For Justice Abbe

Sep. 15, 2000
By Staff Reports

A memorial service will be held Sept. 22 for retired Associate Justice Richard W. Abbe of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Members Give $900K to Bar Foundation

Sep. 15, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

It came as a great relief to officials of the State Bar Foundation recently to learn the more than 15,000 California lawyers w...


Civil Rights


Testimony Begins in LAPD Lawsuit

Sep. 15, 2000
By David Houston

Testimony began Wednesday in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a South-Central Los Angeles woman who claims her home was...


Government


Court to Rule on Construction Ban

Sep. 15, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN CLEMENTE - Driving the snake-like curves of Pacific Coast Highway through this southernmost Orange County town, it's easy ...


Large Firms


Services will take place today for Barbra Davis, chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Dav...


Litigation


Judge Drops Suit Against School

Sep. 15, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed the Manhattan Beach Unified School District from a lawsuit that alleges offic...


Government


LAPD Panel Says Cop Was Insubordinate

Sep. 15, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A long time Los Angeles Police Department veteran was insubordinate when she refused to leave a supervisor's office before pho...


For most California lawyers, two years' probation by the State Bar would be like a punch in the gut. But for former Los Angele...