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McDowell Gets Death Penalty For 2nd Time

Dec. 3, 1999
By Jeff Berg

LOS ANGELES - Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been ...


In another bit of interesting timing, the same day that former Department of Children and Family Services head Peter Digre fil...



By James Cooper As 50,000 protesters fill the streets of Seattle this week to push varied agendas, they all share the belief t...


Separate and Unequal

Dec. 2, 1999
By Columnist

Separate and Unequal 'Serrano' Played an Important Role in Development of School-District Policy By Arthur F. Coon and Scott A...



Foreseeable Future

Dec. 2, 1999
By Columnist

Foreseeable Future Premises Liability Changed Radically in the 1960s With 'Rowland' This truly seminal California case influen...


^^Cyber Solutions^^ Hackers Pierce the Veil of Home and Office Computers By Kevin Lee Thomason Given the sad and strange state...



Defamation Suit by Lawyer Dismissed

Dec. 2, 1999
By Denise Levin

Defamation Suit by Lawyer Dismissed A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by attorney Michael J. Bidart a...


Hearing Delayed for Attorneys

Dec. 2, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Hearing Delayed For Attorneys SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Steven Perk on Wednesday granted a defense motion...



Relishing Baseball

Dec. 2, 1999
By Columnist

^^Bench Press^^ Relishing Baseball Cracking up at Dodger Stadium By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Today's story poses a short test in...


WASHINGTON - On the same day that Exxon and Mobil corporations finalized the largest industrial merger in history, staff membe...



Jack Klugman's 20-Year Date Is Enough

Dec. 2, 1999
By Denise Levin

Jack Klugman is a generous man who did not owe any duty to support forever the woman he dated for nearly 20 years, a jury said...


Veteran DA Announces Judicial Candidacy

Dec. 2, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - A second deputy district attorney has decided to run for the seat being vacated by controversial Superior Court Ju...



The California Department of Insurance announced Wednesday that three Dutch carriers have agreed to provide lists of Holocaust...


Attorney Will Fight Davis' Denial of Parole

Dec. 2, 1999
By Michael Harris

The attorney for a convicted Calabasas killer whose parole was ordered by a judge, then blocked by Gov. Gray Davis, said Wedne...



The following are some key dates and events of the Los Angeles trial court unification effort: 1991 The Trial Court Realignmen...


Citrus Judge to Resume Duties Despite Cloud

Dec. 2, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is due back on the bench today, less than two months before he's to appear in U...



WASHINGTON - A narrow majority of the Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will endorse a federal program that prov...


Two of Hollywood's biggest assets, guns and breasts, have been in the spotlight this week. In separate First Amendment-tinged ...



Student Can Sue University for Hate Crime

Dec. 2, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

University of La Verne student Juan Miguel Bigornia, the president of the school's gay, lesbian and bisexual student union, wa...


Silent Spin

Dec. 2, 1999
By Columnist

^^First Light^^ By Dick Rogers Two days before last Christmas, Riverside police answered a 911 call to find 19-year-old Tyisha...



Los Angeles Superior Court Assignments

Dec. 2, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles Superior Court Assignments The 2000 assignments of Los Angeles Superior Court judges to the various locations and ...


L.A. Judges Support Unification Vote

Dec. 2, 1999
By Denise Levin

With optimism in the face of two previous defeats of trial court unification, the presiding judges of Los Angeles' Superior an...



Buildings of the year

Dec. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Seven properties earned a Building of the Year Award from the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Los Angeles...


Ontario office space on upswing

Dec. 2, 1999
By Julie Nakashima

The Ontario office submarket has heated up significantly this year, and the story in San Bernardino has been steady and activ...



San Diego new home sales dip slightly

Dec. 2, 1999
By Jane Zastrow

New home sales in San Diego County decreased minimally during the third quarter of 1999, according to the Meyers Group. Meyer...


Santa Monica - Lakewood Mall, Stonewood Mall and Los Cerritos Center were contributed to a joint venture owned 51 percent by ...



The 1999 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey (r) tracks 24 communities in the Inland Empire, generally considered inclusive...


School construction in crisis

Dec. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

The U.S. educational system is the world's most egalitarian. It has assisted this country in assuming its leadership position...



California's total construction volume after nine months of 1999 is approaching the largest amount in the past 10 years. Cali...


Percentage of state home owners falling

Dec. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Sacramento - The state has been unable to convert its booming economic prosperity into home ownership opportunities for worki...