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Grounded

Aug. 12, 2003
By John Ryan

By John Ryan Divorced, unemployed and homeless, Harold Archuleta blames his life's misery on American Airlines. The airline f...


Big Box Attempts a Comeback

Aug. 12, 2003
By Contributing Writer

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ As far as shopping centers go, it may not be the biggest or the grandest retail project ever ...



By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy has resigned amid allegations that he sexually abused a woman he supe...


UCLA Law School Gets Interim Dean

Aug. 12, 2003
By Jeff Berg

By Jeff Berg A former UCLA vice chancellor will serve as interim dean of the UCLA School of Law beginning Saturday. Professor...



King of the Concrete Jungle

Aug. 12, 2003
By Andrea Rosas

BY ANDREA ROSAS Special to CREJ Years ago, Carl Ross stood in the back of a truck in the middle of the African bush as a 400-...


Catch Phrase

Aug. 12, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Litigation Strategies By David Hunter "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Johnnie Cochran uttered those now-famous w...



VENTURA - The briefcase has long since lost the luster of new leather, its surface scuffed and faded by the ravages of 25 yea...


By Stefanie Knapp Actor Robert Wagner has presented a new challenge for Charlie's Angels, but it doesn't involve hit men or s...



Pregnancy Center Sues State to Become Clinic

Aug. 12, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

By Eron Ben-Yehuda State health officials are interfering with the reproductive rights of women, according to a lawsuit filed...


Santa Monica Attorney Aids Crash Victims

Aug. 12, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Thomas Larmore sat at a folding table, surrounded by other tables stacked with fat, beaming sunflowers...



Into the Night

Aug. 12, 2003
By Karen Coleman

By Karen Coleman Courtroom do-gooders from around the country blew off steam at the end of the Association of Trial Lawyers o...


By Liz Valsamis Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has added another prominent politician and the first Republican, to it...



Foley & Lardner Starts IP Practice in S.F.

Aug. 12, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Foley & Lardner is the latest national firm to start a Northern California intellectual property practice...


Trio Forms Environmental Law Boutique

Aug. 12, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...



By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...


Irvine Housing Boom Continues

Aug. 12, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The latest multifamily community announced for the city of Irvine is slated to break gro...



BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer John Combs, a leading figure in the property management industry in California and natio...


CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...



Financing Good Times to End?

Aug. 12, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor If you blinked, you might have missed the fact that the cost of borrowing cash rose ...


BY LAURIE C. FISHER Ten years ago, the concept of "going green" was considered idealistic, even hip. Times have changed. With...



Paralyzed Exercise Rider Sues Golden Gate Fields

Aug. 12, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...


BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Looking out at the expanses of barren land alongside U.S. 50 between El Dorado Hills and Sacr...



SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...


Passing Litmus

Aug. 12, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...



"Mean Justice" is the title of a book by Edward Humes about prosecutorial misconduct in Bakersfield. But it also is an apt des...


Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...



SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...


Man Won't Challenge Citizen's Arrest Law

Aug. 12, 2003
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...



Broadcom, Intel, Settle Patent Tiff

Aug. 12, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...


Murder, He Wrote, But He Also Practices Law

Aug. 12, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...