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Technology & Science

Raychem Hit With $64 Million Antitrust Verdict

Aug. 12, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

A Riverside company won a $64 million verdict Monday in an antitrust suit charging that electronics giant Raychem Corp. of Me...


Intellectual Property

SAN JOSE - Los Angeles lawyer Daniel M. Shapiro thought it would be a simple process to post the county's criminal jury instr...



Judges and Judiciary

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court came down hard Monday on Tulare Superior Court Judge Howard R. Broadman, publicl...


Public Interest

SACRAMENTO - Hardly a hot-button policy issue blows through this town that isn't on the agenda of Pacific Legal Foundation. Yo...



Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is praising his family support bureau's collection totals for fiscal year 19...


Civil Rights

Nightclub Sued for Turning Away Guide Dog

Aug. 12, 1998
By Jill Boekenoogen

SANTA BARBARA - Should a blind man with a guide dog have been allowed into a crowded dance club here, even if doing so could ...



Government

A Hyphen Is the Difference in Race for AG

Aug. 12, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Ever wonder what campaign lawyers do? Sometimes they fight over punctuation - at least in the hotly contested ra...


Appellate Practice

Employer Can Be Sued for Secret AIDS, HIV List

Aug. 12, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal court has held in an unpublished opinion that a company can be held liable for slander and libel for covertly ...



Judges and Judiciary

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has strongly backed a reporter trying to get access to a judge's divorce file, saying th...


Product Liability

California Set to Take Half of Tobacco Spoils

Aug. 11, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Attorneys for the cities, counties and state attorney general, who are plaintiffs in five civil suits against the...



Environmental

Liquid Assets

Aug. 11, 1998
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Squabbling over water is a Western tradition. While Easterners laugh at what passes as a river here, only those in t...


Labor/Employment

Judge: Arbitration Clause Stops Watchdog Agency

Aug. 11, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for employers, a Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a woman who signed a compulsory arbitra...



Criminal

S.F. Prepares for Its First Use of DNA Evidence

Aug. 11, 1998
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a San Francisco Superior Court judge is hearing evidence on whether to admit genetic info...


Judge Awards Attoneys' Fees for Drained Lake

Aug. 11, 1998
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A view of the lake, high in the San Bernardino mountains, looks like a postcard - lush greenery frames its s...



Criminal

Hahn Testifies at D'Agostino Hearing

Aug. 11, 1998
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn testified at a civil service hearing that prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino urged him to ...


Through a Child's Eyes

Aug. 11, 1998
By Cheryl Romo

As they watched their daughter go off to college four years ago, attorney Les Hardie and his wife, Susan Moan Hardie, a child...



Government

Rogan on Fast Track of Political Leadership

Aug. 11, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Things happen fast for Jim Rogan. At age 33, he became a Glendale Municipal Court judge. Four years later, voters...


Judges and Judiciary

Panel Sidesteps Move to Oversee Private Judging

Aug. 11, 1998
By Jean Guccione

Declining to interpret a newly adopted constitutional provision, an advisory committee has proposed that lawmakers be asked t...



Government

Interim Northern District U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III said Thursday in Washington he has asked Los Angeles Assistant U.S...


Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Web

Aug. 8, 1998
By James Evans

As part of an effort by the federal courts to make all dockets and judicial opinions available on the Internet, the Southern D...



Family

VENTURA - The lawyer who filed a motion to disqualify a Ventura county judge from hearing some 300 cases involving parents ac...


Litigation

Judges Study Unification's Impact on Courts

Aug. 8, 1998
By Denise Levin

Three separate judicial committees will study and discuss the issues that kept the Los Angeles County judges from giving thum...



Judges and Judiciary

VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley started serving a six-month jail sentence Thursday aft...


Civil Rights

Motion Seeks Injunction Against 'Stun Belt' Use

Aug. 8, 1998
By Michael Harris

Attorneys for the three-strikes defendant jolted with a 50,000 volt stun belt for interrupting a judge filed a class action m...



Criminal

VENTURA - Those who say law has gone to the dogs have never met Violet and Edith - the Perry Masons of puppies. Violet and Ed...


Government

Guarded Silence

Aug. 8, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - One lesson to come out of the Legislature's hearings recently on explosive allegations of official misconduct, b...



In his first official act, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has established a policy for his office regarding actu...


Judges and Judiciary

Judges Struggle with a New, Partisan World

Aug. 8, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - When he heard that the San Diego Democratic Committee wanted to endorse him in his re-election bid, Superior Cour...



Real Estate

In a major financial boost for California cities, the state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ability of municipalities to...


Government

Pellman Chosen as Los Angeles County Counsel

Aug. 7, 1998
By Michael Harris

Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a 26-year veteran of the Los Angeles county counsel's office, has been appointed by the board of superv...