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It's been a long, steep road for Billy Carl Turner since he was convicted in 1982 of setting a sleeping man afire and killing...


Hanging Ten Prompts Dr. Laura To Sue for Slander, $2 Million

Sep. 11, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has filed a lawsuit against the owner of an Ora...



Justices Hear Challenge to Arbitration Pacts

Sep. 11, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard lively oral arguments Thursday in a case that could undermine many mandato...


Proposal to Add Judges Seems To Be Benched

Sep. 11, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - California's trial and appeal courts may have to go without new judges until 2001. One reason, said informed sou...



L.A. County D.A. Deserves Raise, Supervisors Say

Sep. 11, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

With the Los Angeles district attorney's salary lagging behind more than 40 percent of the county's other department heads, a...


Senate Confirms Bars Judy Johnson

Sep. 11, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Senate Confirms Bar's Judy Johnson SACRAMENTO - On a 36-0 vote Thursday, the state Senate confirmed Judy Johnson to a second ...



Coerced Participation

Sep. 11, 1999
By Columnist

^^Environmental Law^^ Coerced Participation Appellate Court to Decide Legality of Duplicate Cleanup Order The 3rd Circuit dec...


Bases Loaded

Sep. 11, 1999
By Columnist

Bases Loaded Ninth Circuit Opens Federal Facility Remediation to Greater Scrutiny By Brian S. Haughton Like most professional...



^^The Rodent^^ Lawyers Make Their Beds and Then Lie in Them Practicing law often presents situations in which telling the tru...


Off Balance

Sep. 11, 1999
By Columnist

^^Gender and Justice^^ By M.C. Sungaila "Oh, beha-a-ave," cooed Austin Powers on the big screen this summer. Unfortunately, t...



Contact Negotiations

Sep. 11, 1999
By Columnist

^^Marketing Mailbag^^ Contact Negotiations To construct a network from the ground up, start with the people you know By Anne ...


Student Indicted on LSD Charges

Sep. 11, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Student Indicted On LSD Charges A 21-year-old University of Southern California drama major was indicted Thursday on charges ...



Ito OKs Review Of Secret Tapes In Fraud Case

Sep. 11, 1999
By Michael Harris

A judge has ruled that defense attorneys in a million-dollar auto insurance fraud ring case are entitled to review dozens of ...


Probate Referee Marlene Stein Succumbs to Cancer

Sep. 11, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Marlene Gail Stein, a probate referee for the Superior Court of California for 24 years, died Monday of cancer. She was 63. S...



Proposed ABA Rules Stump the L.A. County Bar

Sep. 11, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Leaders of the Los Angeles County Bar Association decided Wednesday evening they need more than an hour or two to come up wit...


City Wins Right to Withhold Complainants' Names

Sep. 11, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal panel has ruled that a city may refuse to publicly disclose the names, addresses and phone numbers of people w...



'Paper Chase' Lawyer Osborn Goes In-House at Software Firm

Sep. 11, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

SAN FRANCISCO - John Osborn, the lawyer who wrote the novel on which "The Paper Chase" film and television series were based,...


Memorial Services Set for Walter G. Danielson

Sep. 11, 1999
By Liz Valsamis

Memorial services will be conducted Saturday for Walter G. Danielson, a retired probate attorney and consul general emeritus ...



Cheese Maker Smells Victory

Sep. 11, 1999
By Denise Levin

A Cuban immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar Hispanic cheese manufacturing company in the United States has been awa...


Retired Lawyer Phyllis Kelly Fairbanks Dies at 68

Sep. 11, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Services will be conducted today for Phyllis Kelly Fairbanks, one of the first 25 women to graduate from the UCLA School of L...



Court Extends Time Limit for Harassment Suit

Sep. 10, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Extending the life of sexual harassment claims, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged incident...


Culver to Begin Weapons Check

Sep. 10, 1999
By Denise Levin

Culver to Begin Weapons Checks Weapons screening equipment and staff will begin working Monday at the Culver Municipal Court,...



Standing on Ceremony

Sep. 10, 1999

By Mitchell Keiter Gov. Gray Davis is currently deciding whether to extend "marital" (insurance, pension) benefits to unmarri...


Costly Cups

Sep. 10, 1999
By Columnist

^^Employment Law^^ Costly Cups Supreme Court Defines 'Managing Agent' Under 'White' and 'Ginda,' the court will look to see w...



Renumeration Respite

Sep. 10, 1999
By Columnist

Remuneration and Respite New Laws Restore Daily Overtime and Allow Family-Care Sick Leave By Richard M. Albert, Michael A. Gr...


^^ Court Jesters ^^ Today is the first in an occasional series of interesting or humorous court opinions. In Fisher v. Lowe, ...



City Will Study Personalizing Guns

Sep. 10, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

City Will Study Personalizing Guns Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley...


Guns Show Delays Suit Against L.A.

Sep. 10, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Gun Show Delays Suit Against L.A. A spokesman for the nation's largest gun show said Wednesday the organization has delayed f...



By Tom Teepen As much justice as was possible in the circumstances has been done in the awkward case of Samuel Sheinbein, the...


Interview Intervention

Sep. 10, 1999
By Columnist

^^Recruiting Roundtable^^ Interview Intervention When trying to land that dream job, don't forget the basics By Anna Marie Ar...