McDowell Gets Death Penalty For 2nd Time
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 ...
Fees Sought for Suit Defended By Riordan & McKinzie
By Denise Levin
In another bit of interesting timing, the same day that former Department of Children and Family Services head Peter Digre fil...
It Is Time to Invite Others to WTO Negotiating Table
By Columnist
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
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
By Columnist
Foreseeable Future Premises Liability Changed Radically in the 1960s With 'Rowland' This truly seminal California case influen...
Hackers Pierce the Veil of Home and Office Computers
By Columnist
^^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
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
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
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...
FTC Staff to Recommend Negative Vote on Merger
By Daniel Shaw
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
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
By Daniel Jennings
RIVERSIDE - A second deputy district attorney has decided to run for the seat being vacated by controversial Superior Court Ju...
3 Dutch Carriers Will Pay Claims From Holocaust
By Tamara Scott
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
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...
L.A. Judges Support Unification Vote: Key Dates
By Denise Levin
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
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...
Supreme Court Baffled by Church School Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A narrow majority of the Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will endorse a federal program that prov...
Hollywood Breathes Life Into 'Go Down Moses' and the 38D Commandments
By Garry Abrams
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Jane Zastrow
New home sales in San Diego County decreased minimally during the third quarter of 1999, according to the Meyers Group. Meyer...
$535 million transaction for Macerich, pension plan JV
By Ron Mc Nees
Santa Monica - Lakewood Mall, Stonewood Mall and Los Cerritos Center were contributed to a joint venture owned 51 percent by ...
Inland Empire business costs very competitive
By Ron Mc Nees
The 1999 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey (r) tracks 24 communities in the Inland Empire, generally considered inclusive...
School construction in crisis
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 construction volume nearing 10-year high
By Ron Mc Nees
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
By Ron Mc Nees
Sacramento - The state has been unable to convert its booming economic prosperity into home ownership opportunities for worki...