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Health Care & Hospital Law


RIVERSIDE - The mother of a man whose penis was bitten off when he was attacked by another patient in an intensive care ward ...


Judges and Judiciary


William E. Davis, who once led the state Administrative Office of the Courts, is taking his expertise to Palestine, where he ...


Judges and Judiciary


Justices Defer to Lawmakers

Oct. 29, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to weigh in on the state's first employment case arising from...


Civil Rights


Giving girls greater access to athletic fields, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a lawsuit settlement that gives a s...


Government


Landlord Told to Pay Tenants' Legal Fees

Oct. 28, 1999
By Denise Levin

A landlord who wrongly tried to evict and then sued tenants who paid lower rents under a federally subsidized program must pa...


Technology & Science


DNA Sleuths Hampered by Blood Money

Oct. 28, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - With its unique ability to identify suspects from microscopic clues, DNA technology is allowing law enforcement ...


Law Practice


Former Director of USD Legal Clinic Dies at 74

Oct. 28, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Charles Lynch strongly believed that law students best learn through practice in actual cases, so after he became...


Law Practice


Services Held for Farmers Insurance's Maloney

Oct. 28, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Services have been held for Robert E. Maloney, who served as in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance Group for 35 years. Malon...


Judges and Judiciary


S.D. Assistant Court Administrator Succumbs

Oct. 28, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - D. Kent Pedersen, who as court administrator watched zealously over Municipal Court employees and judges for 18 y...


Law Practice


ACCA Members Come Ready to Work

Oct. 28, 1999
By Martin Kruming

The San Diego chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has been selected as ACCA's small chapter of the year, an...


Commercial Law


REDWOOD CITY -- An attorney representing the former owners of a Burlingame Honda dealership accused the Japanese auto giant M...


Appellate Practice


A former Los Angeles federal judge slated to preside over the trial of a one-time reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...


Government


With Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn at his side, a top attorney in Hahn's office told Police Chief Bernard Parks Tue...


Technology & Science


Is DNA the Key To Unlock Cells Of the Innocent?

Oct. 27, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Two death row inmates convicted in brutal multiple murders in the 1980s insist they can prove their innocence th...


Law Practice


^^The Rodent^^ Lawyer Rsums Product of Creative Legal Writing Back in the good old days, that is, before you and I went to la...


Personal Injury & Torts


By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will f...


Judges and Judiciary


Toward a Unified Effort

Oct. 27, 1999
By Columnist

By Rudolph R. Loncke Seldom does a trial judge have reason to criticize, in writing, the opinion of an appellate court justic...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Party to Benefit Diversion Program

Oct. 27, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Party to Benefit Diversion Program The Long Beach Bar Foundation will host a Halloween party Thursday to benefit SHORTSTOP, a...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Association Elects New Officers

Oct. 27, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Judges Association Elects New Officers Judge Francis A. Gately of the Rio Hondo Municipal Court in El Monte has been elected ...


Litigation


Character Development

Oct. 27, 1999
By Columnist

^^Tales & Trials^^ Character Development Demonstrations of personality traits are more persuasive than mere descriptions ...


Government


Report Clarifies Investigator's Role

Oct. 27, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Report Clarifies Investigator's Role The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has issued a report clarifying a previous written...


International


Challenging Customs

Oct. 27, 1999
By Columnist

Challenging Customs Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Two Import-Export Cases By Su Kohn Ross The 1999 U.S. Supreme Court sess...


Personal Injury & Torts


Consumer Attorneys

Oct. 27, 1999
By Denise Levin

Tort trends were the focus of the annual convention of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which attracted 1,5...


Civil Rights


SAN DIEGO - The mother of a former professional football player who died after he was shot 13 times by San Diego police offic...


Appellate Practice


9th Circuit Votes To Rehear Case Of Border Stops

Oct. 27, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up the issue of what role ethnicity may play in legitimate Border Patrol traffic stops, a federal appe...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


AG Asks Judge to Block Hospital Merger

Oct. 27, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare antitrust challenge to the merger of two East Bay hospitals, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on...


Insurance


Services to be Held Today for William Jackson

Oct. 27, 1999
By Liz Valsamis

Memorial services will be held today for civil trial attorney William R. Jackson of Collins, Collins, Muir & Traver, who ...


Juvenile


Graduation Day

Oct. 27, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

Five young men with slicked-back hair and edgy smiles appeared before the San Fernando Valley Juvenile Court Thursday. This w...


Judges and Judiciary


Memorial Set for Bankruptcy Judge Bergener

Oct. 27, 1999
By Emma Varesio

Memorial services will be held Wednesday for retired U.S. bankruptcy Judge John E. Bergener, who served in the Central Distri...


Constitutional Law


A federal judge has granted a permanent injunction barring the city of Pasadena from enforcing an ordinance restricting door-...