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Pillsbury Madison XEROX MAKES COLORFUL COPY A NEW ACQUISITION Xerox's document division closed its biggest deal in nearly 20 ...


Technology & Science


Crowded Domain

Oct. 12, 1999
By Columnist

By Mark Radcliffe and Maureen Dorney In early November in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...


Criminal


Man Freed After 15 Years Sues DA

Oct. 12, 1999
By Tamara Koehler

BAKERSFIELD - A Bakersfield man set free after 15 years in prison by a judge who ruled prosecutors failed to turn over key ev...


Labor/Employment


Antonovich Calls for Pre-Hire Probes by DA

Oct. 12, 1999
By Michael Harris

Labeling as "reckless and dangerous" the Los Angeles district attorney's policy of conducting background checks on its prosec...


Government


Lockheed Pact With City Will Not Halt Class Suit

Oct. 12, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

REDLANDS - The Lockheed Martin Corp. 's agreement to pay the city here $3.7 million for the cost of cleaning up contaminated ...


Technology & Science


Bandwidth Bandwagon

Oct. 12, 1999
By Columnist

By Don Thornburgh and Jill Westmoreland In the world of telecommunications, "convergence" is not just another technology catc...


Personal Injury & Torts


Legislation passed in a surprising vote by the U.S. House of Representatives late last week giving patients a wide range of ri...


Government


SACRAMENTO - The new millennium may start with a reprise of familiar ballot battles between the plaintiffs' bar and insurance...


Government


Brushing aside objections that more of the work should have been done in house, the Los Angeles City Council has increased to...


Discipline


Lawyers Accused in Conspiracy

Oct. 12, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

SAN BERNARDINO - Two lawyers, a father and son, are accused of one of the most serious assaults ever mounted on the San Berna...


We rate the judge who is only a lawyer higher than the judge who is only a philosopher. Cuthbert W. Pound Katten Muchin TRUST...


Criminal


100 Convictions Threatened by Rampart Scandal

Oct. 9, 1999
By Michael Harris

As part of its investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal, the district attor...


Judges and Judiciary


A wake will be held tonight for former Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge and attorney Charles D. Boags. Boags died Tuesday ...


Criminal


Woman Jailed for Threatening DA Employees

Oct. 9, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

SAN BERNARDINO - A 32-year-old mother of two was jailed after employees at the district attorney's child support division her...


Criminal


Suit Claims Counseling Center Coerced Clients

Oct. 9, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Eight former clients of a Costa Mesa counseling center under investigation by the district attorney's office have...


Government


DA's Past Won't Cause Hiring Change

Oct. 9, 1999
By Michael Harris

Even though it hired a prosecutor without knowing he had been found civilly liable for a stabbing death, the Los Angeles Coun...


Litigation


A defense attorney who used a break in a deposition as an opportunity to jog through his opposing counsel's law firm snapping...


Judges and Judiciary


For most of the past decade, California judges have been trying to persuade lawmakers that judicial officers deserve a big pa...


Bankruptcy


Hennigan Mercer Make Final Plea for $50M Bonus

Oct. 9, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Lawyers for the firm that recovered $865 million that Orange County lost in its 1994 bankruptcy made a last-ditch...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Jurors Award $13.3 Million to Dove Founders

Oct. 8, 1999
By Denise Levin

A Los Angeles couple known for their sensational tell-all books won a $13.3 million jury verdict in a legal malpractice case a...


Appellate Practice


Retired state Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson, who became the conservative conscience on the liberal Rose Bird Cour...


Appellate Practice


Court Reaffirms $3.3M Verdict Against LAPD

Oct. 8, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a verdict of $3.3 million in damages awarded to an Iranian-b...


Criminal


Attorney Will Seek Judge's Disqualification

Oct. 8, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A Mission Viejo attorney plans to file a motion disqualifying Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Iles ...


Judges and Judiciary


Complex Litigation Soon to Have New Home in O.C.

Oct. 8, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - With all the attorneys now lugging in portable televisions and projector screens, clerks poring over mountains of...


Environmental


Davis Signs Prop. 65 Law Into Existence

Oct. 8, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday signed into law the first substantive change to Proposition 65 since the environmental initiativ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Closes Hearing to Recuse S.D.Bench

Oct. 8, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge David M. Gill closed his courtroom to spectators and the news media Wednesday as arguments w...


Constitutional Law


First Amendment No Shield For False Ballot Arguments

Oct. 8, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

An initiative may be removed from the ballot because proponents used inaccurate and misleading information to induce voters t...


Government


Accusing Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti of being "a failed administrator and passive prosecutor" who has e...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike down - as illegal race-based discrimination - a Hawaii law ...


Criminal


Murder Suspect Prohibited From Calls and Visits

Oct. 8, 1999
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - For months, Beverlee Sue Merriman visited her son in the Ventura County jail as he awaited trial for raping and mur...