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Judges and Judiciary


VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...


WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday not to cut the Legal Service Corporation's budget in half, as initial...


Real Estate/Development


Expense Account

Aug. 7, 1998
By Michael Ueda

In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...


Communications


Private Parts

Aug. 7, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...


Family


RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...


Education


ABA Authority To Accredit Is Under Scrutiny

Aug. 7, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...


Judges and Judiciary


A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...


Litigation


This Hit Squad Has Judges Crying Foul

Aug. 6, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...


Securities


Insider Trading Informant Given Probation

Aug. 6, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...


Government


Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...


Civil Rights


Jury to Decide if Pepper Spray was Reasonable

Aug. 6, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...


Government


Bar Association to Prohibit 'Pay to Play' Donations

Aug. 6, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...


Juvenile


In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...


Large Firms


Kaiser Slashes Favored Law Firms to Four

Aug. 5, 1998
By Vivien Lou Chen

SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...


Law Practice


Acting SG to Join O'Melveny & Myers

Aug. 5, 1998
By From Staff Reports

DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...


Public Interest


IOLTA Community Ponders the Future

Aug. 5, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Back Kline Against Discipline Board

Aug. 5, 1998
By Philip Carizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...


Litigation


Starr Salutes Rehnquist Court

Aug. 5, 1998
By Kenneth Rutman

TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...


Judges and Judiciary


Race for Orange County Judicial Post Heats Up

Aug. 5, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...


Law Practice


Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...


Government


TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...


Criminal


Vega Nominated as U.S. Attorney

Aug. 5, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...


Judges and Judiciary


SACRAMENTO - Ending years of debate on how to provide voters more information about appellate justices, Secretary of State Bi...


Insurance


Supreme Court Hands Insurers Major Victory

Aug. 5, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

In a resounding victory for insurance companies and their lawyers, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an in...


Judges and Judiciary



Judges and Judiciary


Healthy War Chest

Aug. 1, 1998
By Tom Dresslar


Criminal


Monica's Deal Furrows a Few Legal Eyebrows

Aug. 1, 1998
By Martin Bergn


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


High Court Sets New Deadline for Malpractice

Aug. 1, 1998
By Philip Carrizosa


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles Judge Rejects Unification

Aug. 1, 1998
By Denise Levin


Judges and Judiciary


Orange County Approves Unification

Jul. 31, 1998
By Tori Richards