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Judges and Judiciary


Chief Justice Opens the File On Nominees

May 20, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing his effort to open up the judicial branch to public scrutiny, Chief Justice Ronald M. George announ...


Tax


Tax Dispute Mars Gift to Colleges

May 20, 1999
By Denise Levin

The county of Los Angeles and two attorneys and their firms, including Bryan Cave, have been sued by the Regents of the Unive...


Environmental


Court Decision May Open Floodgates in Valley

May 20, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to duck a lingering Central Valley environmental battle means part of ...


Litigation


Federal Express Accused of Selective Routing

May 20, 1999
By Denise Levin

A package sent via Federal Express to a recipient who lives in a mostly minority neighborhood was rerouted to a narcotics off...


Judges and Judiciary


San Diego Judge to Lead New Judicial Order

May 20, 1999
By Jean Guccione

San Diego Judge David J. Danielsen says he wants to better define the California Judges Association's role in what he called ...


Personal Injury & Torts


County to Pay $1.3M for Altered Records

May 20, 1999
By Lauren Blau

Medical records in a case settled Tuesday by Los Angeles County for nearly $1.3 million were altered by medical personnel, ac...


Product Liability


Tort Theorists Talk 'Guns and Bombs'

May 20, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific scenario is familiar: A child obtains a handgun and blasts away. But how should the law deal wit...


Government


Nearly a year after a recommendation from the state auditor, Los Angeles County is planning to conduct a needs assessment for...


Public Interest


Pro Bono Isn't On the Rise for S.D. Lawyers

May 20, 1999
By Kenneth Rutman

SAN DIEGO - While pro bono efforts to help the less fortunate appear to be on the rise across the country, in San Diego the n...


Government


Trial and Error

May 20, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - It would be understandable if California's plaintiffs' bar was imbued with a giddy optimism, given its early leg...


Personal Injury & Torts


Holocaust Bill Progresses in State Senate

May 20, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would make it easier for people force...


Government


Riverside Cops Sued for Millers Death

May 20, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Lawyers for the family of Tyisha Miller filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Riverside and fi...


On average, one child a week is killed by a care-giver in Los Angeles County. And District Attorney Gil Garcetti, the chairma...


Criminal


SAN DIEGO - Whether the death of 13-month-old Christopher Evan Oliver Smith resulted from something that happened at his day ...


Government


County May Settle Overturned Conviction

May 19, 1999
By Lauren Blau

Consideration of a proposed $500,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by an executive who spent nine years in jail for allegedly...


Judges and Judiciary


O'Connor Speaks Out On Juries, Racial Bias

May 19, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Citing "serious problems" with the jury system in America and with minority perceptions of the justice system, U...


Government


A $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 approved Monday by the Los Angeles City Council includes funding for City Attorney...


Criminal


Plea Caps Auto Fraud Saga

May 19, 1999
By Michael Harris

In a settlement Los Angeles prosecutors hope will serve as a warning to other lawyers engaged in insurance fraud, suspended at...


Appellate Practice


Court Finds Lonis Nemesis Lacks Appeal

May 19, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal panel held late Monday that a woman who paired up with actress Loni Anderson to sell skin care products throug...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to the welfare-reform movement in a case from California, the Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Monday th...


Government


Budget Plan Denies Judges a Pay Increase

May 18, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The judiciary would get 12 new appeal court judges and 20 new trial court jurists, and $19.1 million to fix year...


Criminal


Appellate Judge Delays Probe Into O.C. Counseling Center

May 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A state court of appeals judge granted a partial stay Friday in the case of Center for Creative Alternatives,...


Admiralty/Maritime


Lawyer: Client Did Not Threaten Judge

May 18, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Denying federal prosecutors' allegations that he threatened the life of a federal judge, a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with ...


Criminal


DA Will Retry Couple in Childs Starving Death

May 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

Despite a jury that deadlocked overwhelmingly in favor of acquittal, prosecutors have announced they intend to retry an Antel...


Criminal


A San Bernardino County judge has refused to issue a certificate of rehabilitation for a former Los Angeles County prosecutor...


Technology & Science


SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard, which has been fighting several legal battles to maintain control of the lucrative market for the...


Law Practice


Short-Staffed

May 18, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

As lawyers' practices become more specialized, technology keeps advancing and busy firms get even busier, finding a competent...


Government


The Los Angeles City Council has settled a case for more than $163,000 in which a federal judge had awarded just $20,000 to t...


Criminal


Case Dismissed After Witness, 14, Vanishes

May 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles judge has dismissed charges that a Compton police officer had sex with an underage girl after prosecutors annou...


Judges and Judiciary


Don't Judge by the Critics

May 18, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Public criticism of judicial decisions may serve a useful purpose in our society, but it must not compromise jud...