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Insurance


New Math

Sep. 17, 1999
By Columnist

New Math Carriers Have No Duty to Settle to Avoid Punitives By Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Rikka Fountain The California Supre...


Public Interest


Lights, Camera, Cause of Action

Sep. 17, 1999
By Columnist

Lights, Camera, Cause of Action Legal education is becoming a trip to the tube By Paul O'Brien Out of work for much of last s...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Predicts Problems With Court Backlog

Sep. 17, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusually blunt assessment of the state of the courts, Court of Appeal Justice Gary Strankman warned Mo...


Criminal


UCSD Pays $4.7M for Fraud Claim

Sep. 17, 1999
By Claude Walbert

UCSD Pays $4.7M For Fraud Claim SAN DIEGO - The University of California San Diego Medical Center agreed Wednesday to pay the...


Education


Teachers May Appeal Dismissal of Prop. 227 Suit

Sep. 17, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

The California Teachers Association is considering whether or not it will appeal a recent federal court decision to dismiss i...


Government


Chamber Safety

Sep. 17, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Reacting to an increasing number of shootings in public places, the Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to install metal...


Criminal


Lawyer May Enter Plea to Bank Robberies

Sep. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Even though he has not yet had his preliminary hearing on charges he committed four bank robberies to support a heroin habit,...


Judges and Judiciary


New Rule Would Limit Depos To One Day

Sep. 17, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Wednesday approved changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedu...


Education


Colorado Issues Legal Primer On School Violence

Sep. 17, 1999
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Last spring's fatal shootings at Columbine High School have left school administrators across Colorado - and the nat...


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously declined to review former Gov. Pete Wilson's executive ...


Law Practice


Giving His All

Sep. 17, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Anil Mehta remembers the day he lost his left arm like it was yesterday. It happened six years ago when Mehta - n...


State Bar & Bar Associations


From cycling in this year's annual San Francisco to Los Angeles AIDS ride to volunteering on the boards of numerous bar and c...


Health Care & Hospital Law


SAN FRANCISCO - Who's on the hook for $116 million? When a San Bernardino County jury in January voted the big punitive damag...


Public Interest


Merger of Legal Aid Programs Is Abruptly Halted

Sep. 17, 1999
By Jeffrey Anderson

In a turn of events that leaves the future configuration of legal aid services in Los Angeles and Orange counties in limbo, a...


Public Interest


Pilot Project Set to Aid Legal Access

Sep. 16, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Pilot Project Set For Legal Access In an attempt to help litigants who represent themselves, the Los Angeles County Board of ...


Government


New Curfew Given Preliminary OK

Sep. 16, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

New Curfew Given Preliminary OK In an effort to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted un...


Public Interest


Names Sought for Jurist Award

Sep. 16, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Names Sought For Jurist Award The Administrative Office of the Court is now accepting nominations for the Benjamin Aranda III...


Criminal


Courage of Our Convictions

Sep. 16, 1999
By Columnist

By Joseph Charney I recently observed a felony trial in a French criminal court in Bordeaux in which the judge called the def...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case involving the video games to which countless c...


Government


San Diego DA Office Again in Hot Seat

Sep. 16, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Unwanted judicial scrutiny of the district attorney's office here seems likely to continue when a former deputy D...


Native Americans


Judge to Hold Court on Reservation

Sep. 16, 1999
By Martin Kruming

In a unique arrangement, a Superior Court judge will hold a special court session on Saturday in Pauma Valley for members of ...


Government


County Will Settle Dispute With State for $5.8M

Sep. 16, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to accept more than $5.8 million from the state of Cali...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Los Angeles Superior Court judge Florence-Marie Cooper, tapped for California's Central U.S. District Court, and...


Education


Gay Fathers Sue Catholic School After Expulsion

Sep. 16, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could test the balance between civil rights and religious freedom, a male couple has sued a Sa...


Government


The proposed plan to notify Los Angeles police officers about changes in the police inspector general's role reignited a deba...


Intellectual Property


EToys Inc., the popular online toy retailer of cuddly Furbys and Pokemons, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against...


Public Interest


By Stanley Hoffmann In Kosovo, the United States and its allies had to choose between two important norms of international re...


Litigation


Ex-POWs File Suit Over WWII Slave Labor

Sep. 16, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A La Mesa man is among three World War II servicemen who filed suit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court again...


Probate


No Contest

Sep. 15, 1999
By Columnist

^^Probate Law^^ No Contest Clauses May Be More Trouble Than They Are Worth California's no-contest clause structure is uncerta...


Government


By Alfred P. Carlton Jr. As we approach the millennium, our judicial system faces challenges anticipated by America's founder...