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Wilt's Will Benefits Hometown Charities

Oct. 23, 1999
By Josh Grossberg

Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain may have died in Los Angeles last week, but as indicated by his will, his heart never roame...


Award For Attention Deficit Dismissal Is Upheld

Oct. 23, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

An appellate court has upheld a $900,000 jury award to a former Los Angeles County doctor who was found to have been wrongful...



Same Name, Wrong Man - Police Sued

Oct. 23, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

HEMET - Police here made a serious mistake when they arrested Robert Morris on a warrant Jan. 21. The Robert Morris they were...


WASHINGTON - Guylyn R. Cummins made it to the big dance Oct. 13, but in the end she didn't get to leave her seat. Cummins, a ...



Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown would rather go to jail than pick up roadside trash. And, by the way, the woman judge who se...


Football Player Sues for Bad Forward Pass

Oct. 23, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

MURRIETA - Derek Boult, a first-string offensive tackle for the Murietta Valley High School Nighthawks has filed a novel laws...



Fears that unification of the Los Angeles Superior and Municipal courts would spawn lawsuits for violations of the federal Vo...


Seeing Double

Oct. 22, 1999
By Columnist

Seeing Double 9th Circuit Upholds Use of Dual Juries in Capital Cases In giving its stamp of approval to the use of dual jurie...



Bar Judge Says Lawyer Broke Rule on Juror

Oct. 22, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Setting the stage for a disciplinary hearing, a State Bar Court trial judge has issued a ruling of culpability against promin...


Voir Mire

Oct. 22, 1999
By Columnist

Voir Mire Surviving the jury-picking process requires patience and a good book By Paul O'Brien As any trial lawyer knows, jur...



Costly Breach

Oct. 22, 1999
By Columnist

Costly Breach Insured Can Recover Costs Incurred in Forcing Additional Insurers to Pay An insured would not have been forced ...


Riverside Judge to Hear S.D. Matter

Oct. 22, 1999
By Claude Walbert

Riverside Judge to Hear S.D. Matter SAN DIEGO - Riverside Superior Court Judge Ronald R. Heumann will decide if all San Diego...



^^In the Public Interest^^ By Robert Cohen, Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash As leaders of the la...


Drug Court Opens in Pomona Court

Oct. 22, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Drug Court Opens In Pomona Court Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina Wednesday announced the opening of the Pomona Mu...



^^The Bookshelf^^ From Complaint to Closing, Treatise Covers It All. BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURTS Edi...


MWD Workers Get OK to Pursue Case

Oct. 22, 1999
By Denise Levin

MWD Workers Get OK to Pursue Case It took four rounds of demurrers, but workers suing the Metropolitan Water District and abo...



Coming Up Empty

Oct. 22, 1999
By Columnist

By Marianne Means Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr finally gave up the ghost this week, acknowledging the obvious - that he'...


Justice Calls on Students To Be Ethical Attorneys

Oct. 22, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

ORANGE - While some people think the United States is saturated with too many lawyers, the real problem is that this country ...



Broad Powers Seen in LAPD Inspector

Oct. 22, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The Los Angeles police inspector general has the authority to investigate anything involving the department, subject to an ov...


DA Files Murder Charges in Prank Shooting Death

Oct. 22, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - A Buena Park man accused of shooting and killing a high school student over the theft of a Halloween pumpkin deco...



Loeb & Loeb Expands New-Media Practice Group

Oct. 22, 1999
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has expanded its new-media practice group by nabbing Internet entertainment lawyer Steven J. Pe...


Justice Budget Passes House, Veto Expected

Oct. 22, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly approved the final version of a $38 billion appropriatio...



SAN FRANCISCO - Well-known trial lawyer Alexander "Lex" Brainerd has left the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles-based Quinn Ema...


S.F. Campaign Finance Limits Blocked

Oct. 22, 1999
By John Roemer

Moving at top speed with Election Day nearing, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday heard oral arguments, then...



SAN JOSE - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a bid by five national retailers facing a Y2K lawsuit to transfer the cas...


Coudert Bros. and Strook Tangle in Fee Fight

Oct. 22, 1999
By Denise Levin

When a lawyer and two of his former firms are sued, who picks up the tab for the lawyer? Coudert Brothers sued Stroock & ...



The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has chosen Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner Louis L. Touto...


S.F. Cop's Suit Over Complaint SLAPP'd Down

Oct. 22, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - It will cost a police sergeant $52,000 in legal fees for suing San Franciscan Betty Evans, a superior court j...



A California law allowing police to sue individuals for allegedly lodging false complaints against them has been found uncons...


With Los Angeles County prosecutors conceding they had not complied with one portion of his order regulating their use of wir...