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SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard, which has been fighting several legal battles to maintain control of the lucrative market for the...


Short-Staffed

May 18, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

As lawyers' practices become more specialized, technology keeps advancing and busy firms get even busier, finding a competent...



The Los Angeles City Council has settled a case for more than $163,000 in which a federal judge had awarded just $20,000 to t...


Case Dismissed After Witness, 14, Vanishes

May 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles judge has dismissed charges that a Compton police officer had sex with an underage girl after prosecutors annou...



Don't Judge by the Critics

May 18, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Public criticism of judicial decisions may serve a useful purpose in our society, but it must not compromise jud...


SAN FRANCISCO - The explosion of securities litigation has produced a backlog of 500 federal shareholder actions since 1995, ...



Court Reporter Unable to Sue Over Retaliation

May 18, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel has ruled that a court reporter, accused of airing a district court's "dirty laundry"...


Court Affirms the Use of Stinger Letters to Judges

May 15, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a overall victory for the state's judicial watchdog agency, the state Supreme Court on Thursday held that ...



Amendment Guidelines

May 15, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

The Citizens for the Constitution, a project of the New York-based Century Foundation, developed the following eight guidelin...


California Senate Approves Child Support Reform

May 15, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - The Senate overwhelmingly approved a proposal to overhaul California's child support system Thursday, but Republ...



Judge Rebukes Parole Board on Disability Access

May 15, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - California's parole board drew stinging criticism from a federal judge Thursday for blocking access and servi...


State Lawyer Ousted from Case

May 15, 1999
By Martin Bergn

In a case involving allegations of retaliation against judges within the workers' compensation system, a federal judge has di...



Constitutionally Speaking

May 15, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Concerned by the rising number of proposed constitutional amendments making their way through Congress in recent...


Most Who Go Before Parole Board Find No Way Out

May 15, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Convicted in 1976 for his role as the getaway driver in a double murder and robbery stemming from a drug deal go...



SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed his first "Son of Sam" lawsuit, seeking to garnish any profits that migh...


This Bud's Not For You After Court's Ruling

May 15, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

Reining in the aggressive marketing tactics of a major brewery, a California appeal panel has ruled that the brewer's agents ...



Court Accepts Race as Ground For Suspicion

May 15, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the definition of "reasonable suspicion" in investigative traffic stops, a divided federal appeals ...


Politically Connected Offender Gets Prison

May 15, 1999
By Michael Harris

Unlike in his last case, in which he was placed on probation amid allegations Los Angeles County prosecutors had granted him ...



Judges Tout Jury Duty in Public Service Spots

May 15, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

They sat in the green room, mouthing the lines of their scripts, then surrendered to the makeup artist's brushes and sponges....


SAN FRANCISCO - Has the state high court sent a message to the Commission on Judicial Performance about its judicial miscondu...



A bill that seeks to reform state confidentiality laws to allow limited public access to the juvenile court records of dead c...


Homeless Can Raise Necessity Defense

May 14, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Orange County prosecutors to wipe out a lower cou...



Disabled Win Upgrade of Emergency Call Boxes

May 14, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles County will spend about $11.5 million to upgrade the freeway emergency call box system under terms of a settlemen...


Retired Judge Goes on Offensive

May 14, 1999
By Michael Harris

The Los Angeles County grand jury that indicted a retired judge for allegedly covering up a prisoner's escape was not told by...



Ex-Judge Pleads With Panel for Second Chance

May 14, 1999
By Jean Guccione

SAN FRANCISCO - A now-retired Ventura County judge struggling with alcoholism told a disciplinary panel Wednesday he has been...


In his annual request to augment his budget, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti asked county supervisors Wedne...



It was just weeks before final exams at Loyola Law School two years ago when a group of students became stressed out over ano...


The State Bar must pay $107,141 to its special master, Elwood Lui, for his first five months on the job, the Supreme Court or...



WASHINGTON - The U.S. General Accounting Office, responding to a request from powerful congressional opponents of the Legal S...


SACRAMENTO - "Unusual times call for unusual measures," in the words of California District Attorneys Association executive d...