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Litigation


Big Toxics Award Largely Upheld

Feb. 26, 1999
By Tom Orewyler

In an unpublished opinion released Thursday afternoon, an appellate panel upheld awards to 23 of the 28 plaintiffs in a $4.5 ...


Criminal


Court Rejects Misconduct Claims in Drug Case

Feb. 26, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Rejecting defense arguments of outrageous government misconduct and selective prosecution, a federal district judge has refus...


State Bar & Bar Associations


WASHINGTON - Saying such a move would help restore people's faith in government, American Bar Association president Philip S....


Family


SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that could lead to O.J. Simpson's losing custody of his children, the California Supreme Court on We...


Personal Injury & Torts


Plaintiffs Bar Is Hoping to Doff MICRA Caps

Feb. 26, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - As governor, Jerry Brown was seen by some observers as a sort of a hippie-Jesuit Democrat. That novel philosophi...


Immigration


WASHINGTON - Handing the government a victory it had sought for 12 years, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Immigrat...


Law Practice


High Court Questions Right to Practice

Feb. 25, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Hearing arguments on a battle between a Los Angeles defense attorney and two prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tu...


Criminal


After a La Mirada defense contracting firm and its president were convicted of fraud charges Tuesday, her son, the vice presi...


Labor/Employment


Lettuce Grower Settles Harassment Suit

Feb. 25, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In the largest settlement of a sexual harassment case involving the agricultural industry, a Salinas-based lettuce...


Judges and Judiciary


'Cattle Call' Just One Problem After Unification

Feb. 25, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - Raquel Fox was blocked by a wall of some 80 dark-suited lawyers. It was calendar call, the one hour on Monday...


Government


An appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by two Los Angeles police detectives to allow them to depose former Police ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Another of Gov. Pete Wilson's appointees to the State Bar Board of Governors has left the board. Jo Ellen Allen, the public a...


Probate


SAN DIEGO - The Heaven's Gate that disappeared from this earth in March 1997 was not pearly - far from that, according to a S...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority of Americans - 80 percent - considers this country's justice system, despite some weakn...


Criminal


Federal Hearing Probes Conduct Of Prosecutor

Feb. 25, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor facing potential sanctions for alleged inappropriate contact with a grand jury witness t...


Judges and Judiciary


The former bailiff for the presiding judge of the Beverly Hills Municipal Court has taken the unusual step of going public wi...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawyer Escapes Disbar Threat by Taking Bench

Feb. 25, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Bernardino County judge who, as a lawyer, tried to make off with $32,000 in mistakenly issued severance...


Government


State Attorneys Raise Pressure for Pay Equity

Feb. 24, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Restless and angry, state-employed attorneys are stepping up pressure on Gov. Gray Davis to grant pay raises aft...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lui Projects $25 Million for Discipline in 1999

Feb. 24, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The reconstruction of the State Bar discipline system is going well, according to the first report to the California Supreme ...


Civil Rights


Mission Accomplished

Feb. 24, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is shutting down a 10-year operation that attempted to ease pain and suffering inflicted ...


Large Firms


Rounsaville to Work at S.F.s Allen Matkins

Feb. 24, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Guy Rounsaville, longtime general counsel at Wells Fargo and one of California's most prominent attorneys, ha...


Government


In a step that could lead to the loss of its operations in California, Old Republic Title Co. has been ordered to explain all...


Entertainment & Sports


Court Liberates Spiderman From The Studio Web

Feb. 24, 1999
By Garry Abrams

The comic book character Spiderman became a more liberated superhero Monday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge freed the...


Government


Wins, Losses and ERA

Feb. 24, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - California laws now provide women and girls with most of the protections they would have received under the feder...


Criminal


Court Takes 9th Circuit Habeas Case

Feb. 24, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Taking on another aspect of the tangled federal habeas process, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a d...


Criminal


Lawyer Held in Investigation of Murder Scheme

Feb. 23, 1999
By Michael Harris

A San Pedro criminal defense attorney has been arrested on suspicion of soliciting the murders of his former partner and a Ca...


Criminal


Retired Lawyer Convicted in Child Sex Case

Feb. 23, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A retired Massachusetts attorney was convicted Friday on federal charges of traveling across the country with the intent of h...


Criminal


Judge: Care-Giver Not Guilty of Murder

Feb. 23, 1999
By Mathew Heller

RIVERSIDE - Without even letting the case go to the jury, a judge has dismissed a murder charge against a woman accused of mi...


Education


Boalt Hall Professor Riesenfeld Dies at 91

Feb. 23, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Stefan A. Riesenfeld, who taught international law and many other subjects at Boalt Hall School of Law since ...


Law Practice


Source Subject

Feb. 23, 1999
By Pamela Mc Clintock

The decision by San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro early this year to turn over control of its library to an outsi...