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Couple Can Proceed Against Fertility Clinic

Sep. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit against a Cornell University medical clinic stemming from the fertility clinic scandal at University o...


Focus Column - By William W. Oxley and William A. Molinski - While not likely to draw as many fans as a Timberwolves-Lakers p...



Choose Carefully

Sep. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Lee Jay Berman - If a mediation is going to have a chance at success, perhaps the most important decision is...


Forum Column - By James Acret - The new disclosure rules for arbitrators that went into effect July 1 provide a powerful demon...



Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Sept. 11 brought out the best in many of us. It certainly brought out the best in a number o...


Court Allows Phone Customers' Class Suit

Sep. 19, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A class action claiming that a local phone company tricked its customers into paying millions in rental charges ...



Tentative Accord Reached in MGM Lawsuit

Sep. 19, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The long-running legal battle over the billion-dollar James Bond film franchise may have ended with a preliminar...


Study Will Monitor Title IX Compliance

Sep. 19, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring the first study of compliance in California's public sc...



Authorities Comb Slain DA's House for Clues

Sep. 19, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Sheriff's investigators Tuesday prepared to submit a "substantial" amount of evidence to the county'...


Fund Memorializes Longtime Prosecutor

Sep. 19, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - A scholarship fund has been established at Southwestern University School of Law in memory of longtime Los Angel...



Davis Signs 'Son of Sam,' DNA Bills

Sep. 19, 2002
By Philip Carrizosa

SACRAMENTO - A controversial bill that allows prison officials to use "reasonable force" to collect DNA samples from state pr...


LOS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon will become a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los...



LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles bank vice president is jailed, loses her job, has her citizenship application revoked and faces d...


Varian Foes Seek Web Discovery

Sep. 19, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who are waging a pitched legal battle with their former employer over defamatory Internet ...



Legal Logjam

Sep. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kelli Sager and Rochelle Wilcox - The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the broad protections inc...


DENVER - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Interior Secretary Gale Norton and one of her assistants intentionally lied and fr...



Some Experts Question Arrests of Buffalo Six

Sep. 19, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Is mere attendance at a terrorist training camp enough to be convicted of giving "material support" to terrorists...


Riders Blame the Neighborhood

Sep. 19, 2002
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - Defense arguments in the Oakland Riders police corruption case got off to a rough start Tuesday as the trial judge ...



Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Wilkison v Wiederkehr, 2002 Cal.App.LEXIS 4575 (Cal.App. A...


Board Lawyers Recommend Limits on DA

Sep. 19, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Attorneys for Orange County recommended Tuesday that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas should strictly prohibit co...



Milberg Weiss Goes After Bond Brokers

Sep. 19, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The country's biggest bond traders cheated customers out of billions by charging excessive fees on municipal ...


Some Experts Question Arrests of Buffalo Six

Sep. 18, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Is mere attendance at a terrorist training camp enough to be convicted of giving "material support" to terrorists...



DENVER - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Interior Secretary Gale Norton and one of her assistants intentionally lied and fr...


Legal Logjam

Sep. 18, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kelli Sager and Rochelle Wilcox - The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the broad protections inc...



DA Names Lead Prosecutor in Runnion Case

Sep. 18, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney David Brent, a veteran of death penalty cases, was named the lead prosecuto...


Preparing Your Witness

Sep. 18, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...



Hip Implant Suit Is Speeded Up

Sep. 18, 2002
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the handful of lawsuits over allegedly faulty hip implants that remain before the Alameda County Superi...


Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...



Saddam Obviously Has Means to Attack U.S.

Sep. 18, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper - Closely associated with the war on terrorism" is the growing debate about when to attack I...


Law Limits Lawyers in Adoption Proceedings

Sep. 18, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys representing siblings in foster care or adoption proceedings may face conflicts of interest because of...