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Teacher Faces Retrial for 'Cybercrime'

Oct. 24, 1998
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Creating an Internet Web site focusing on neo-Nazis and skinheads is not a crime. But prosecutors say what is a cr...


Liver Transplant Hopeful Sues Medical Center

Oct. 24, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A seriously ill Mountain View man whose request for a liver transplant was rejected because of his history of drug...



Girardi Takes On Tobacco

Oct. 24, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi, on behalf of a group called Smokers for Fairness, will try to convi...


Caltrans' Condemnation Causes Lawsuit Pileup

Oct. 24, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - Chris Burchinal had lived the classic American dream: starting his own business with just a little bit of cash an...



The State Bar of California may finally see the tiniest glint of a silver lining in Gov. Pete Wilson's veto of its funding bi...


SACRAMENTO - As Dan Lungren and Gray Davis enter the home stretch in their race to become California's next governor, the tri...



Judge Accused of Helping Pal Conceal Assets

Oct. 23, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is accused of helping a friend conceal more than $1.8 million in funds allegedl...


SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling limiting liability of public institutions under the federal Communications Decency Act, an Alamed...



Bum's Rush

Oct. 23, 1998
By Mathew Heller

MURRIETA - If school district officials had their way, Michael Ertel would not be attending Murrieta Valley High School right...


WASHINGTON - Call it Jurassic Pork, or maybe a budgetbillosaurus. The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and ...



WASHINGTON - In one of its final acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed Los Angeles U.S. Att...


Woman Claims Lawyer Abandoned Her in Court

Oct. 23, 1998
By Denise Levin

Her attorney's failure to appear twice for a family law trial and comply with discovery motions caused a woman to lose $4,050 ...



Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...


Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...



By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...


New Law Impedes Plans to Help Wards of Court

Oct. 22, 1998
By Cheryl Romo

A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...



Group Seeks to Bolster Counterfeit Laws

Oct. 22, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...


Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...



Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...


SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...



Co-Workers Get Protection for Insulting Others

Oct. 22, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...


Court Steers a New Course in Rescue Lawsuit

Oct. 17, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...



Legal Community Roasts Judge Chavez

Oct. 17, 1998
By Wirein

One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...


Bail Bondsman Of the Future Is Unplugged

Oct. 17, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...



Next Governor Eyes Legacy of Judicial Choices

Oct. 17, 1998
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...


Judge: No Misconduct by DA's Office

Oct. 16, 1998
By Michael Harris

Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...



O.C. Seeks Additional Money From the State

Oct. 16, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...


Symington Prosecutor to Move to Bay Area Office

Oct. 16, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...



Coliseum Claims Scam by Management Company

Oct. 16, 1998
By Denise Levin

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...


Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...