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Appellate Practice


On-line Reports Could Be 'True Disclosure'

Nov. 6, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - In the political reform arena, where one person's gaping loophole is another's First Amendment right, consensus ...


Product Liability


Jurors Appear Deadlocked in Ford Class Suit

Nov. 6, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

Oakland jurors appeared hopelessly deadlocked Thursday in the massive class-action consumer fraud trial against Ford Motor Co...


Technology & Science


Group Acts to Boost Web Naming

Nov. 6, 1999
By Chris Ford

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers acted Thursday to take responsibility for allocation of domain n...


Government


SACRAMENTO - As California marks the 25th year of its Political Reform Act, the movement to curb the power of special interes...


Civil Rights


Nov. 5, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The mother of a man who died in sheriff's custody in Twin Towers jail has sued the county for violating his civil rights. Minn...


Real Estate/Development


Pretty boats all in a row

Nov. 5, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

Redwood City Pretty boats all in a row The corrugated metal Quonset hut the Stanford University crew has been using as boatho...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - The Clinton administration has formally shelved California's application to buy about 1,000 acres of Mojave D...


Appellate Practice


Rehnquist Said So

Nov. 5, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The key to understanding the most important development from the U.S. Supreme Court over the past several years may be a diss...


Contracts


Troubles of Rich, Famous

Nov. 5, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Billionaire Eli Broad, one of the most prominent builders and real estate developers in the country, testified in a civil tri...


Criminal


Ex-Prosecutor Ordered to Stand Trial

Nov. 5, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Cruz County District Attorney Peter Chang was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that he eng...


Personal Injury & Torts


Clear and Deadly Danger

Nov. 5, 1999
By Matthew Heller

SOLVANG - The Danish Country Inn is just one of hundreds of businesses in this Santa Barbara County town that make the most o...


Real Estate/Development


Business costs vary widely in Napa and Solano counties Of the nine Northern Bay Area communities tracked in the 1999 Kosmont ...


Real Estate/Development


Out on a LIMN

Nov. 4, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

Sacramento Out on a LIMN Dan Friedlander has great expectations for the city's languishing Arts District, about a mile from d...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Tears, laughter, hugs and Scottish bagpipe music filled the jury lounge of the Hall of Justice last Friday afternoon as frien...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Courts Seek Coordination Delay Again

Nov. 4, 1999
By Denise Levin

With the next deadline looming, Los Angeles County courts once again are seeking an extension for submitting a coordination p...


Appellate Practice


Appellate Panel Unlikely to Speed Habeas

Nov. 4, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - What appeared to be a less than sympathetic panel of federal appellate judges sharply questioned a state pros...


Appellate Practice


SACRAMENTO - In a case testing the parameters of workplace liability, the California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with whe...


Criminal


Is It More Than Skin Deep?

Nov. 4, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

TEMECULA - An attorney for an alleged racist skinhead charged in the beating of a black man claims the Riverside County distr...


Criminal


DA Clears Cops in Ex-Football Player's Death

Nov. 3, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst has cleared two San Diego police officers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of f...


Appellate Practice


A Woman of Firsts

Nov. 3, 1999
By From Staff Reports

From Staff Reports She broke up The Brethren, and now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is again breaking histor...


Juvenile


Escape Routes

Nov. 3, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - If you asked 14-year-old Reyna Perez three months ago if she thought she would ever escape the squalid living con...


Real Estate/Development


Franklin Select to sell all properties

Nov. 2, 1999
By Cnsb Editor

The board of directors of Franklin Realty Trust approved the sale of the trust's remaining real estate assets to Value Enhanc...


Real Estate/Development


A Closer Look: George J. Kallis

Nov. 2, 1999
By Staff Writer

Title: Senior Executive Managing Director-Pacific Northwest Region Company: CB Richard Ellis Inc. Location: San Francisco Wha...


Construction


States affordability crisis growing worse

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Sacramento - The state's housing crisis is growing worse, according to the California Building Industry Association. Using da...


Real Estate/Development


Los Angeles - In the more-and-faster category that seems to be taking over the world, Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis and ...


Intellectual Property


Legal Designs

Nov. 2, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

By Elizabeth Freudenthal Officially, Bill Barmeier was hired in March not to be the interior decorator for San Mateo start-up...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Femme Factor

Nov. 2, 1999
By Jason Songn

By Jason J. Song Unless you're born a Kennedy or have another former U.S. president for a father, political clout isn't somet...


Construction


Development projects

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Announcements received in the past month of development projects getting under way, listed by square footage. FIRM PROJECT SQ...


Real Estate/Development


Show us your laptop

Nov. 2, 1999
By Columnist

Show us your laptop Technology trends for the new millennium. By Jim Young Even though commercial real estate and all its ass...


Real Estate/Development


Management contracts

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Announcements received in the last month of property management contracts, listed by square footage. FIRM CLIENT PROJECT SQ.F...