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Anti-Trans Fat Crusader Drops Oreo Suit

Jun. 3, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Attorney Stephen Joseph became fodder for the national news media after filing a lawsuit that claimed one of America's favorit...


Goal Tending

Jun. 3, 2003
By Columnist

Column - Marketing - By Andrea W. Snedeker - For some, the notion of setting goals conjures up images of footsteps in the sand...



Protesting for the American Dream

Jun. 3, 2003
By Christine Malamanig

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Builders have gotten used to the sight of anti-development or affordable housing pro...


Party Paradox

Jun. 3, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Driving up to the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa on May 14 for the Constitutional Rights Foundation's annual Spring Dinner, the S...



Suit Produces Misconduct Claims All Around

Jun. 3, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

A wild and woolly product liability case in Santa Barbara that ended in April with a defense verdict has stirred up accusation...


Bankruptcy Forum Recognizes 17 Jurists

Jun. 3, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The California Bankruptcy Forum honored 17 judges at its annual conference held in Rancho Mirage May 16-18. The U.S. Bankruptc...



Screen Service

Jun. 3, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

In December, an Australian court ruled that a local businessman could sue U.S.-based publisher Dow Jones & Co. in Australi...


Globalizing IP

Jun. 3, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Intellectual Property - By Reese Pecot - Changes are afoot for trademark practitioners. On Nov. 2, the U.S. Patent &a...



Look Within for Facility Savings

Jun. 3, 2003
By Christine Malamanig

BY CHRSTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The rolling brownouts and blackouts of two and three years ago have slipped away quie...


Lights! Camera! Caution!

Jun. 3, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Flip on your television or go to a movie and odds are you'll see a familiar Southern Cal...



Saga Continues For Couple That Tried to Buy Car

Jun. 3, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The saga continues for a San Jose couple that wanted to get a good deal on a car four years ago. In 1999, Trini and Ramon Chav...


LOS ANGELES - Tough guys don't cry. Though Albert Joseph Garcia promotes a tough-guy image, he doesn't quite fit the adage. Th...



Company Wins Rights to Soviet-Era Films

Jun. 3, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

A Los Angeles-based film company won a five-year legal battle over rights to Soviet-era animated films produced before the fal...


Location Entices Lawyers to Join Reed Smith

Jun. 3, 2003
By Erik Cummins

For Matt Kirmayer, it was all about location. "For what I do, San Francisco is the center of the world," says Kirmayer, a corp...



BY SUZANNE BADAWI Everyone knows what happened to venture capitalists who jumped on the dot-com bandwagon, envisioning e-start...


BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor LOS ANGELES - Just a few blocks from where the first Ralphs market opened in 1873 ...



Taking Managers Out of the Property

Jun. 3, 2003
By Contributing Writer

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The state's largest office landlord, Equity Office Properties Trust, plans to open a dozen ...


Online Real Estate Service Sues State

Jun. 3, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

The nation's largest online real estate advertising service is challenging the constitutionality of California regulations tha...



Music Label Loses to Tune of $132 Million

Jun. 3, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

A $132 million jury verdict was music to the ears of independent record company TVT Records. TVT won its legal battle against ...


CHICAGO - Signs of recovery are in place for the construction industry and a full recovery is expected in the non-residential ...



Partners in Crime Fighting

Jun. 3, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor With the national terrorism alert level raised to orange, the second-highest level...


In Search of a Better Quality of Life

Jun. 3, 2003
By Andrea Rosas

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Demand for office space in the Santa Clarita Valley continues to rise as tenants look to th...



World Savings Bank has defeated all claims in a suit brought by a homeowner who purchased one of its properties. Los Angeles S...


One of medicine's great challenges is finding new, more efficient ways to deliver drugs into the body. The traditional methods...



Internet Provides Foundation for Practice

Jun. 3, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

A Berkeley family lawyer has developed a Web site that allows him to practice law from the Internet. Robert Kroll dreams of di...


Best Buy Customers Allege Internet Scam

Jun. 3, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Buyers of Best Buy products, beware, a lawsuit suggests. A class action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges Microsoft ...



Column - Trial Strategy - By Kirk A. Pasich - The closing argument in a punitive damages case is an argument unto itself. Beca...


Among the 10,000 people expected at yesterday's Orange County AIDS Walk at the University of California, Irvine, was Ken Babco...



Lawsuit Targets State's Union Practices

Jun. 3, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When it comes to training new construction workers, does California look a little too ha...


Focus Column - Business Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "A page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v...