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Immigration


Punishment Politics

Dec. 24, 1999
By Columnist

The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba that has led to the tragic conditions in Cuba must be lifted at once, and Elian must be ret...


Government


Mayor Riordan's Revolutionary L.A. Heyday

Dec. 24, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Does Mayor Riordan see himself as a revolutionary marching into a new age with God and Mickey Mouse at his side? ...


Labor/Employment


Lone Harasser

Dec. 24, 1999
By Columnist

Lone Harasser Non supervisory Employee Cannot Be Held Personally Liable Under FEHA The court considered and rejected appellant...


Criminal


No-Contest Plea in Masturbation Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has pleaded no contest in a lewd conduct case and must undergo a treatment prog...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Resolution Insulation

Dec. 24, 1999
By Mark Blumberg

EDWARD STERN ADR Group: JAMS Case Types: General civil Location Served: Northern California Law School: Harvard Law School, 19...


Product Liability


Stanley and Deliver

Dec. 24, 1999
By Contributing Writer

By Stephen R. Barnett As Justice Stanley Mosk on Dec. 26 becomes the longest-serving justice in the history of the California ...


Family


Court Narrows Focus of Barry Bonds Divorce Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By David Kravetz

The California Supreme Court has narrowed the focus of a closely watched divorce case it will hear between San Francisco Giant...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Unsettling Settlements

Dec. 24, 1999
By Lisa Milller

By Michael Young In a recent mediation, no briefs had been submitted and no pre-mediation conference calls had taken place, so...


Government Contracts


Public Defender, Fired Amid Scandal, Sues

Dec. 24, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside public defender who was fired following a scandal over her office's handling of conservatorships sue...


Criminal


9th Circuit Puts Stop to Racial Profiling Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing the ability of minority motorists to challenge allegedly race-based traffic stops, a federal appeal...


Law Practice


By his own account, he was a "paid gladiator." "I fight for my clients," he explained to his secretary. "Most clients aren't ...


Public Interest


Orange County Bar Backs Aid Offices Merger

Dec. 24, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - In a possibly futile move, the Orange County Bar Association has voted to support a merger between the Legal Aid S...


Law Practice


Seeing Red: 1950-1959

Dec. 24, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Fifty years ago, Los Angeles attorney John T. McTernan was in his prime. He needed to be. For McTernan, the 1950s were not ab...


Law Practice


Preeminent Guru to Judges and Lawyers

Dec. 24, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

A law professor once told his class that no single person, even Bernie Witkin, could possibly summarize the whole vast sweep ...


Labor/Employment


New Age

Dec. 23, 1999
By Columnist

California attorneys should be aware of one new law and two new court decisions that have strengthened older workers' ability ...


Law Practice


Listen Up

Dec. 23, 1999
By Columnist

Communication skills are as fundamental to the legal arena as citing case law. And though we often think of communication as b...


Litigation


Calloway Rights' Suit Reinstated

Dec. 23, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal court has reinstated a suit over the rights to the life story and musical compositions of famed band-leader Cab...


Large Firms


Fenwick & West Receives Top Marks - Again

Dec. 23, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second year in a row, Fenwick & West has been named one of the country's 100 best companies to wor...


Criminal


Sentence for Rampart Officer Delayed Again

Dec. 23, 1999
By Michael Harris

Sentencing for Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Police Department officer who sparked the Rampart Division corruption s...


Government


PPI System Changes Won't Affect Effectiveness

Dec. 23, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the sheriff's department told the board Tuesday ...


Appellate Practice


Former Disney Exec Hopes to Gain Release

Dec. 23, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Former Disney Exec Hopes To Gain Release A former high-level Disney executive convicted of possession of child pornography is...


Law Practice


Doyle Is Named City Attorney

Dec. 23, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE -- In a move that maintains continuity, the San Jose City Council Tuesday appointed Concord City Attorney Rick Doyle...


Commercial Law


An Australian clothing manufacturer claims in a lawsuit that its attorney at the Los Angeles firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler &...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Condo ADR

Dec. 23, 1999
By Columnist

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Condo ADR Resolving Common Interest Development Disputes Without Going to Court Because th...


Criminal


White House Spells Big House for Bankers

Dec. 23, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Three Venezuelans were convicted Monday in the second and final trial of Operation Casablanca, the largest drug money launderi...


Contracts


CA Plaintiffs Call MoneyGram Settlement Unfair

Dec. 23, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Calling the settlement of an Illinois federal class action against three money-transfer companies unfair - partly because the ...


Government


Suit Evicts Christ From Council Meetings

Dec. 23, 1999
By Denise Levin

The Burbank City Council meetings have no room for Jesus Christ, according to two residents of that city who claim in a lawsui...


Personal Injury & Torts


Supervisors Settle Four Lawsuits for $1.5 Million

Dec. 23, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved four lawsuit settlements Tuesday totaling $1.5 million, including a $775,...


Litigation


By Edwin Train Caldwell and Wylie A. Aitken In a bare hospital room on Nov. 10, John Gardenal died as he lived - with grace, ...


Appellate Practice


Inmate Claims His Confession Was Not True

Dec. 23, 1999
By Michael Harris

Ordered by a judge to demonstrate why a man's 1980 murder conviction should not be vacated, prosecutors contended that another...