Exclusionary Rule May Not Apply to 'Gerstein' Violation
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By William B. Sage - Until the Supreme Court gives us its final answer, the application of the e...
New Rules for Capital Defense Are Approved
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - With California's death penalty law approaching its 25th anniversary, a new rule will for the first time esta...
Toxicologist Denies Killing Husband
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum has denied on the stand that she murdered her husband after he threatened to reveal her renewed ...
Court Tests Slave-Labor Law Constitutionality
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - World War II slave-labor victims and their heirs will be watching closely, as lawyers converge in Los Angeles to...
Focus Column - Business Law - By Lawrence C. Waddington - The Specht court chose to rely on venerable rules of contract...
Ryder Jurors Juggle Conflicting Stories
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When the prosecution rested last week in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial, jurors were juggling two conflictin...
Voting to Maintain Justices'
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Forum Column - By Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow - One-sided elections? What's that about? It might sound surprising, but ...
Appellate Races Go Nearly Unnoticed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...
Circuit Revives Tosco Litigation
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court's ruling that companies cannot escape liability for water pollution by selling the f...
Rebel Rents Files for Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
Equipment rental company Rebel Rents Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, represented by Newport Beach boutiqu...
O'Melveny Mentors Guide Teen-Age Lawyers
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Jane Renahan strode up to the podium to cross-examine the prosecution's star witness, Cody Ward. The stakes were...
Lawyer Dedicated Himself to MinorityRights
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - William Jensen Clayton, a savings-and-loans specialist and minority-rights advocate, has died. He was 78. Clayto...
Voting to Maintain Justices' Objectivity
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Forum Column - By Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow - One-sided elections? What's that about? It might sound surprising, but ...
Veteran DA Knew What a Case Was Worth
By Jenna Bordelon
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Chief Deputy District Attorney Curt Livesay was a brand new prosecutor covering preliminary hea...
Exclusionary Rule May Not Apply to 'Gerstein' Violation
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By William B. Sage - Until the Supreme Court gives us its final answer, the application of the e...
Brobeck, Philadelphia Firm Hold Merger Talks
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is in merger discussions with Philadelphia's Morgan, Lewis &...
Jurist in Life-Support Case Believes in Accountability
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Judge Richard E. Behn's decision Thursday to end a brain-damaged 13-month-old's fragile life probably has come at ...
Lockyer Eyes Corporate Crooks
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Thursday he will push for legislation to give his office greater crimin...
Unlikely Allies Seek FBI Files
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Almost two decades ago, Alex Odeh, West Coast director of the Arab-American Discrimination League, was killed wh...
Non-Resident Tuition Upheld
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - There is no constitutional problem with the extra tuition that out-of-state students are charged to attend Ca...
Election 2002: Judicial Candidates Discuss Their Qualifications
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Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's election, we asked candidates for judicial office to submit statements telling u...
Judge Refuses to Unseal Ryder Documents
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - L.A. Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox refused Thursday to release sealed court transcripts and documents sought...
Firms Want Capable People Who Work With Others
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Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Most legal professionals are aware of the fundamentals of job interviewing: dressing ...
Magistrate Agrees Navy Sonar Tests Hurt Whales
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal courts here have again come to the aid of whales and other marine animals that environmentalists ...
SLA Defendant Said to Be Ready to Deal
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Emily Harris, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member accused with three others of murder during a 1975 ...
Davis Reappoints Nonlawyers to State Bar Board
By Don De Benedictis
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has reappointed two nonlawyer members to the State Bar board of governors, giving three-year term...
Couple That Suspects Embryo Swap Loses
By Katherine Gaidos
IRVINE - A couple whose frozen embryos were stored at the scandal-ridden University of California, Irvine, fertility clinic ca...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Legal Gadfly Has Eccentric Past
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He's a Baptist minister, a media-savvy ex-con - and he likes to file lawsuits. James Stern's latest, filed Monda...
Merchants' Right of Detention Depends on Reasonableness
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Marcellus A. McRae and Joel M. Athey - Because of recent events, shoplifting is back in the n...
Crosby Heafey Getting Married
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May will merge with Reed Smith, of Pittsburgh, creating a 995-lawyer firm with offi...