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Judges and Judiciary


Election of Judges Eyed

Mar. 8, 2000
By Jean Guccione

WASHINGTON - After many years and little success, judicial reformers who once firmly opposed the election of state judges are ...


Environmental


Congress, Coast Guard Rule Seas

Mar. 8, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON-In a decision with implications for states' rights and international treaties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimo...


Juvenile


Building More Costly Prisons

Mar. 8, 2000
By Columnist

By Jerome P. Wallingford Californians should reject the Pete Wilson prison legacy embodied in Proposition 21 and chart a posit...


Government


DA, Investigator Disagree About Who Lied

Mar. 8, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Civil Service Commission hearing for fired district attorney's investigator Eddie Cervantes ended Monday with th...


Government


DAs 11th-Hour Mailer Swipes Opposition

Mar. 8, 2000
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who has run an extremely low-key, barely visible campaign for a third term ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Court Dumps $89M Discrimination Verdict

Mar. 8, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld a Los Angeles judge's decision to throw out a jury's $89 ...


Judges and Judiciary


CJP Launches Probe of Murphy

Mar. 8, 2000
By Jean Guccione

LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance filed disciplinary charges Wednesday against Judge Patrick B. Murph...


Labor/Employment


Court Grapples With Issue of Jobs Promise

Mar. 8, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled with a case Monday raising the issue of whether an employer may rescind ...


Move over, Matt Drudge. Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks and the LAPD have discovered the World Wide Web. ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Charles E. Wiggins, for 16 years a conservative voice on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the f...


Public Interest


Occupational Hazards

Mar. 8, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers making a career change should consider the field of nonprofit development. ...


Government


Embattled DA Will Retire to Avoid Turmoil

Mar. 8, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Embattled Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Longanbach, under criminal investigation by the state attorney general...


Transactions


Armen Vartian TANGIBLE ASSETS INCLUDES KEYSTONE IN ITS COLLECTION After conducting business with Gehringer & Kellar Inc.,...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Restraint

Mar. 7, 2000

Get ready for a true or false question. First the facts. A judge spoke these comments in court proceedings. "Sir, one of us is...


Transactions


Fenwick & West EXODUS PROCEEDS TOWARD ITS KEYLABS ACQUISITION Santa Clara's Exodus Communications Inc. completed its acqu...


Transactions


Simpson Thacher CISCO IS COMPATIBLE WITH PAIR OF RECENT PURCHASES San Jose-based Cisco Systems, which offers a variety of bus...


Natural Resources


Insurers Must Pay for Stringfellow Cleanup

Mar. 7, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - California taxpayers got what could potentially be a $500 million break Thursday from the 4th District Court o...


Transactions


Wilson Sonsini REAL'S DEAL APPARENT IN SPEEDY NETZIP PURCHASE Seattle's RealNetworks acquired Atlanta's Netzip Inc. for 1.7 m...


Intellectual Property


Link Liability

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Peter Brown The continued expansion of the Internet brings not only unparalleled opportunity but also significant risk. A ...


Transactions


Bigger-Money Merger for Bigger-Money Companies

Mar. 7, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Howard Rice BIGGER-MONEY MERGER FOR BIGGER-MONEY COMPANIES In an agreement valued at $2.7 billion, San Francisco's Charles Sc...


Judges and Judiciary


Boxer Touts Judge For Central District

Mar. 7, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Friday recommended to President Clinton that he nominate San Luis Obispo County ...


Labor/Employment


Paper Proof

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Richard S. Rosenberg Law firms have certain reporting and notice requirements that must be fulfilled every time an employe...


Transactions


Brobeck Phleger LIVE ON LINE NOW ENJOYING DIGITAL ISLAND ADVENTURES San Francisco's Digital Island Inc. acquired New York's L...


Firm Watch


Sonnenschein Loses Los Angeles Lawyers

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Winston & Strawn SONNENSCHEIN LOSES LOS ANGELES LAWYERS The Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & ...


Firm Watch


Northern Virginia Office Opened With New Hire

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Morrison & Foerster NORTHERN VIRGINIA OFFICE OPENED WITH NEW HIRE San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster plans to op...


Transactions


Jeeves Grows Greener With Educational Deal

Mar. 7, 2000
By Emma Varesio

Cooley Godward JEEVES GROWS GREENER WITH EDUCATIONAL DEAL Emeryville's Ask Jeeves Inc. acquired the Evergreen Project Inc. in...


Public Interest


Spin Report By John M. Curtis "We don't have inflation because the people are living too well ... we have inflation because th...


Law Practice


Longtime Orange County Prosecutor Dies

Mar. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Longtime Orange County prosecutor Ed Freeman, remembered by colleagues as a good lawyer who was "revered on both s...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Deadbeat Payors

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Physicians have an arsenal of weapons to use against delinquent payers. Physicians Have Many Options for Obtaining Reimburseme...


Family


Child Abduction

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

THE CLOSER Kidnapping of a child by a noncustodial parent can do as much damage as abduction by a stranger. By Paula Savage C...