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Real Estate/Development


Unplanned obsolescence

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

Two developers are reportedly vying to build San Francisco-themed megaresorts in Las Vegas, replete with replicas of the Gold...


Real Estate/Development


High hopes

Feb. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

Start-up Urban Media Inc. is offering to deliver free broadband access and e-business solutions to small and medium-sized bus...


Litigation


Poor Awarded $455,000 in Slumlord Case

Feb. 2, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The Inner City Law Center, which battles slumlords on behalf of poor tenants, received notice Monday of a $455,000 judgment ag...


Criminal


Jury Returns Death Verdicts in Killing

Feb. 2, 2000
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Monday recommended death for two reputed gang members convicted of eight murders, including ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


SACRAMENTO - The debate over how to spend California's $25 billion litigation settlement with tobacco companies will not spill...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bruce J. Sottile is slated to be the next member of the bench to retire and join an alternat...


Government


U.S. Attorney Mueller Targets High-Tech Crimes

Feb. 2, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of his first year as the top federal cop in Northern California, U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller anno...


SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could reduce trial judges' powers, the California Supreme Court said Monday that courts must gi...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Admits Inappropriate Conduct

Feb. 2, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Luis A. Cardenas, who is in the middle of an investigation by the Commi...


Government


Rampart List Grows to Nearly 12,000

Feb. 2, 2000
By Michael Harris

Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman said Monday he has received from prosecutors a list of an additional 1,200 cases possibly...


Government


DA Hopeful Says Garcetti Is Soft on Child Abuse

Feb. 2, 2000
By Michael Harris

Charging that incumbent Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti has "abdicated" his responsibility in preventing child abus...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


SAN FRANCISCO - With the use of alternative dispute resolution exploding in the trial courts, a new state program has been lau...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing a former San Francisco City College student have asked a judge not to pull the plug on a ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Gas Companies Win Dismissal of Class Action

Feb. 2, 2000
By Anna Marie Stolley

A class action against Arco and eight other gasoline companies for alleged price fixing has been thwarted once again by a stat...


Entertainment & Sports


San Francisco attorney Sheldon Siegel is lucky. He killed an executive committee member at a large law firm and got away with...


Real Estate/Development


Hamilton Landing lands first tenant

Feb. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

Novato - The first tenant has agreed to touch down at Hamilton Landing, a 550,000-square-foot office complex created from old...


Litigation


Pacific Defender

Feb. 2, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA Little did I know that four months into my two-year contract on Kosrae, a tiny island in the central Pacific Ocean, I wa...


Recently, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation, Community Legal Services and San Francisco Ne...


Real Estate/Development


On the Scene Inland Empire

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

Rancho Cucamonga Fast on the draw When Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc. needed to produce a full set of construction docu...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Urbane and smart

Feb. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

By Ernesto M. Vasquez Urban centers are coming back to life. In Southern California, signs of this revitalization are apparen...


Real Estate/Development


On the Scene Sacramento

Feb. 2, 2000
By John Mc Cloud

Sacramento Union negotiations Three Grubb & Ellis brokers arranged the $17 million sale of the Union Bank of California b...


Real Estate/Development


SOAR points

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima For the commercial real estate industry, the good news has been that development is back. The bad news is,...


Real Estate/Development


On the Scene Orange County

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

Costa Mesa NAIOP chapters find strength in numbers The Los Angeles and Orange County chapters of the National Association of ...


Real Estate/Development


On the Scene Silicon Valley

Feb. 2, 2000
By John Mc Cloud

Santa Clara All the building is a stage The commercial real estate industry is just coming to recognize what the residential ...


Construction


One multimillion dollar construction project can make a difference for those who keep monthly tallies of California construct...


Real Estate/Development


Restoring substance

Feb. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

The William Binder-designed building at South Market and Post streets in San Jose sits within the boundaries of the old Puebl...


Criminal


Claiming the Los Angeles Police Department Web site has identified his client wrongly as one of the city's most wanted and dan...


Real Estate/Development


By Rex Hime Gov. Gray Davis issued his second State of the State address, reiterating several ideas from his first such addre...


Real Estate/Development


On a roll

Feb. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

By Ronald McNees CMBS observers blame rising interest rates for a big decline in issuance volume last year - $67 billion comp...


Real Estate/Development


Save the farm

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima Somewhere along the line in California's slow-growth movement, the shrill cries of "not in my backyard" ha...