Ultimate Sanction: Executio n
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Forum Column By Ira L. Shafiroff In the aftermath of David Westerfield's conviction and death sentence for the kidnapping and...
Excising the Lord from Graduation Speech Probably OK
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a contest between free speech and separation of church and state, a federal appeals panel has suggested th...
Retired Judges May Either Sit On Assignment or Do Private Judging, But They Can't Do Both Anymore
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Angry at what they see as insults to their integrity, many retired jurists vow they will quit working as assi...
CJA Could Have Done More, Critics of New Rule Complain
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In addition to being mad at Chief Justice Ronald M. George for banning assigned judges from acting as private...
Court Urges Legislature to Act To Curb Dangerous Chases
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Division 3 of the 4th District Court of Appeal has joined the crusade ...
Paying Heed
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Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - The granting of certiorari in Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont and the re...
Waiting for the Next 'Killer App'
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BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ After a couple of the most challenging years in Silicon Valley industrial real estate hist...
Land Constraints Support San Diego's Industrial Sector
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Despite the woes of its bread-and-butter industries, the San Diego industrial market is ...
Local Businesses Sustain Sacramento's Industrial Sector
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Although the economy has not been kind to corporate America, local and regional compa...
Builder Seeks Rehearing in Dispute Over Park Place
By Katherine Gaidos
BY KATHERINE GAIDOS Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - An Irvine developer filed a petition Jan. 8 for a rehearing of an appellate...
Business as Usual in Orange County
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It takes more than one quarter of rare double-digit vacancy in 2002 to dampen the outlook...
ER Bailout
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BY JEFFREY A. DREESMAN Hospitals today are being used in a very different manner than a decade ago. As a result, architects an...
Full Steam Ahead for L.A. Industrial Real Estate
By Michael Gottliebn
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Despite a sluggish year for commercial real estate both locally and nationally, the Los Angele...
High Demand Transforms Inland Empire's Open Spaces
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Companies looking to the Inland Empire as a potential home for their industrial operations m...
Bay Area Bright Spots Could Show the Way to Recovery
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BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Market watchers in the San Francisco Bay Area are beginning to see hopeful signs after two ...
Brokers Seeking Brokettes
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer It isn't quite Valentine's Day yet, but people in the professional matchmaking busine...
Fate of Faded Ambassador Hotel Divides Korean Groups in L.A.
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BY QUEENA SOOK KIM Dow Jones Newswires LOS ANGELES - When Yohng Sohk Choe looks at the worn-out shell of the fabled Ambassado...
Hot Trends Keep Attorneys in High Demand
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Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Although California has yet to see a complete economic recovery, all is not bleak for...
Judge Puts Brakes on Mexican Trucks
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A huge legal roadblock to the entry of long-haul Mexican trucks into the United States was erected Thursday by...
Court Axes Garment Workers' Lawsuit Against Their Union
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday threw out a lawsuit against the world's largest garment-workers union, ruling t...
City's Permit Approval Process Delay Isn't Temporary Taking
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - A city's erroneous denial of a lot-line adjustment did not constitute a "t...
Hallinan Spars With the Mayor
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown and District Attorney Terence Hallinan clashed Thursday over the police department's inves...
S.F. Office Of Pillsbury Under New Management
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrea Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency lawyer, is the new managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop'...
Nothing Warm or Fuzzy About U.S. Judge Edward Garcia
By Pam Mac Lean
SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Edward J. Garcia has come a long way for someone who traveled a very short distance. Raised i...
Five Law Firms Being Probed For Abuse of Section 17200
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - As his office investigates five law firms for possible illegal activity, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer is ...
Clean Air Laws Override NAFTA, 9th Rules
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A huge legal roadblock to the entry of long-haul Mexican trucks into the United States was erected Thursday by...
Police Arrest Quakers In Anti-War Protest
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Dressed in black and carrying cardboard coffins, several dozen members of the American Friends Service Committe...
DA Vows to Fight Child Pornography
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was sworn in for another four-year term yesterday and promptly ann...
At Last, Justices Can Rule On Person's Right to Arms
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Forum Column - By Eric Schippers - Having ruled that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the words "under God...
Cruise Wins $10 Million in Defamation Lawsuit
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has won a $10 million judgment in a defamation lawsuit against a gay porn star w...