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Judges and Judiciary

Jul. 10, 2008

Dealing With the Dolls and Death Docket

U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson of Riverside is presiding over two high-profile cases, the business dispute over who owns the rights to the wildly popular Bratz dolls and the criminal trial of a former U.S. Marine charged with manslaughter for killing two unarmed insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq

By Don J. DeBenedictis
and Jason W. Armstrong

Daily Journal Staff Writers
This article appears on Page 1

      RIVERSIDE - The trial over who owns the rights to the wildly popular Bratz dolls is drawing close attention from the business press worldwide because hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.
      But six weeks into trial, the chief executive officer of Mattel Inc....

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