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Technology & Science


Firm Removes 'the Office' From Office Work

Jun. 30, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - First it was casual Fridays. Then many law firms, especially those with clients in the hip high-tech world, allowe...


Criminal


Truck Driver Facing Multiple Murder Counts

Jun. 30, 1999
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors are expected to launch their effort today to try a truck driver in one county for a series of mu...


Criminal


Ex-Officer Acquitted of Drug Charges

Jun. 29, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A former state narcotics officer facing a host of drug and money-laundering charges was convicted Friday only on tax charges....


Criminal


Serial Rapist Gets 538 Years

Jun. 29, 1999
By Michael Harris

In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...


Law Practice


Short-Circuited

Jun. 29, 1999
By Chris Ford

To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...


Litigation


Convicted Attorney Accused of Cheating Friend

Jun. 29, 1999
By Denise Levin

Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...


She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...


Juvenile


In 1996, Grace Home for Waiting Children, a foster family agency founded three years earlier by former county employees, was ...


Juvenile


Los Angeles County contracts with about 80 foster family agencies, which operate more than 5,300 foster homes for children wh...


Government


Plaintiffs Join Insurer to Back Bad-Faith Law

Jun. 29, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has reached a key agreement with a major insurer on legislation to restore a negligence vict...


Government


Lawmakers Slow To Crack Down On Rogue Police

Jun. 29, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Eight years after the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers shocked the nation, polic...


Environmental


Oil Companies Must Face Suits Over Prop. 65

Jun. 29, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A massive Proposition 65 case billed as one of the largest environmental lawsuits in state history has been a...


Judges and Judiciary


VENTURA - Ventura County's judges have rejected a low bid from an out-of-county law firm and voted to continue contracting wi...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has recused himself from presiding over an attorney fee dispute in a contentious class-...


DENVER - At a gathering of officials from states that have been affected by recent youth violence, the drive to do something ...


Government


WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced to the full Senate the federal bench nomination of Los Angel...


Criminal


Services Set for Former Torrance City Attorney

Jun. 26, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Services will be held today for retired Torrance City Attorney Stanley Edward Remelmeyer, who died Saturday of a stroke. He w...


Criminal


Even though prosecutors argued that physician David G. Gardner had been convicted in the largest money-laundering case ever f...


Intellectual Property


Patent Chief Vows Application Reforms

Jun. 26, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's chief patent and trademark official promised Thursday to shave the time it takes to process pate...


Litigation


A production company claims in a $10 million lawsuit that an attorney at the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg &...


Real Estate/Development


Tenants Apply Rare Statute to Battle Slumlord

Jun. 26, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Applying a rarely used statute to clean up slum housing, renters at a Hollywood apartment building filed a lawsuit Thursday a...


Insurance


Details on Bank Plot Revealed

Jun. 26, 1999
By Patricia Jacobus And John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - An alleged plot by a French bank to illegally obtain billions of dollars by deceiving California insurance re...


Transportation


Airport Authority Has 60 Days to Pay $60M

Jun. 26, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Representatives of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority hurriedly left Los Angeles Superior Court in Burbank Thurs...


Government Contracts


WASHINGTON - One day after greatly strengthening the states' immunity from suits in both state and federal courts, the Suprem...


Public Interest


SAN FRANCISCO - Mary Gemma O'Keeffe was 19 when she entered the convent. Her only career decisions, she thought, would be whe...


Judges and Judiciary


Breyer Noted for Wit, Charm and Bench Presence

Jun. 26, 1999
By Mark Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Echoes of his early days as a lawyer surfaced as Charles R. Breyer reflected on the recent impeachment trial ...


Judges and Judiciary


Commissioner Can Sue Over Political Ouster

Jun. 26, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

A former Riverside Municipal Court commissioner can pursue his federal civil rights suit against two judges who he claims pus...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing to curb controversial news media practices, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the A...


Family


Services will be held today for Diane Sullivan, family lawyer and member of San Diego's self-proclaimed "Old Girls" group, an...


Judges and Judiciary


Discipline Panel Votes on Judges Is Made Public

Jun. 25, 1999
By Jean Guccione

Bowing to a court ruling that it must reveal its confidential voting records, the Commission on Judicial Performance announce...