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SIS Civil Rights Case Loses More Judges

May 6, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Four more federal judges have recused themselves from a civil rights case stemming from shootings by the Los Angeles police S...


Taking It SLO

May 6, 1999
By Dick Goldberg

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Denton Wilson, a deputy district attorney in San Mateo County, and his wife, Ann, practicing insurance defe...



Testifying in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million lawsuit, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner...


State Bar May Trim Discipline System

May 5, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the State Bar Board of Governors took their first detailed look Saturday at how a downsized bar wi...



Discipline No Defense for Alleged Abuser

May 5, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

In a ruling that sends a stern warning to abusive parents, a state appeal panel has ruled that mothers and fathers who unlawf...


Dead Witness Proves Problematic for Disney

May 5, 1999
By Garry Abrams

The death of president Frank Wells created a legal problem for the Walt Disney Co. in its dispute with movie executive Jeffre...



Judicial disciplinary prosecutors have fired back at Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline, defending their charge of misconduct...


Barrister of Budapest

May 5, 1999
By Jean Guccione

Two years ago, he could not have found Budapest, Hungary, on a map. But now Robert M. Talcott, a Los Angeles lawyer, bar lead...



Judge to Define Liability for Bad Cop

May 5, 1999
By Matthew Heller

MURRIETA - By having sex with two teen-age girls he was supervising in a police Explorer program, Murrieta Officer Derick Boy...


Court Eases Immigrant Deportation

May 5, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Rejecting a balancing test proposed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday unanim...



Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy's lawyer said Monday the jurist is confident once prosecutors interview him, t...


Changes in the medical records of a patient who apparently suffered permanent paralysis after treatment at a Los Angeles coun...



Quadrupling its Silicon Valley presence in one fell swoop - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has acquired Palo Alto...


Gray Matter

May 4, 1999
By Stephanie Cahill

Eight years ago, the California legislature passed a law providing expansive remedies to elderly and disabled individuals who...



Man Indicted On Securities Fraud Charges

May 4, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Friday indicted a North Carolina man on securities fraud charges for posting a fabricated...


Siding with the news media in the ongoing battle over hidden cameras, a state appeal panel has refused to allow two salesmen ...



Both Sides Claim Victory in Antitrust Case

May 4, 1999
By Martin Bergn

In a ruling that left both sides claiming victory, a U.S. district judge has upheld a jury's verdict on liability in an antit...


New System Promises to Track Losses

May 4, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - Criticized by legislative investigators and Attorney General Bill Lockyer for shoddy tracking of the costs of la...



Los Angeles attorney John Nyahan of Chadbourne & Parke has been accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Law...


PHOENIX - Home is where the heart is. To prove that adage, the legal community in Phoenix is putting its heart and soul, not ...



A Little Life Extinguished

May 4, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

Kameron Justin Demery, 21/2, was a sweet-faced little guy who loved rubber balls and liked to play in the mud. "He was mellow...


Stanley D. Myers was a religious fundamentalist who in 1965 summoned his pastor to bless the new Tallmadge, Ohio, industrial ...



In a surprisingly blunt speech, Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco has sharply criticized the commission tha...


SALES

May 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

LOS ANGELES COUNTY ROADSIDE DRIVE, AGOURA HILLS SQ.FT.: 32,000, SHOPPING CENTER PRINCIPALS' BROKER: CHRISTOPHER AND LANE SCHW...



Attorneys for a retired judge and a bailiff Thursday previewed their defense to charges the pair tried to cover up a prisoner...


Lawyers to Offer Free Advice

May 1, 1999
By Pat Alston

In celebration of Law Day, the Barristers of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other local bar groups will provide f...



Lawsuit Filed Against Rabbi Concludes

May 1, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman has settled her lawsuit against a rabbi whom she accused of luring her into a sexual rel...


SAN FRANCISCO - The EEOC on Thursday brought a rare lawsuit against a branch of state government, accusing the California Env...



Norwalk Court Now Accepts Faxed Documents

May 1, 1999
By Denise Levin

The Norwalk branch of Los Angeles Superior Court is now accepting documents filed via fax, the court has announced. The servi...


Judge: Utility Can't Ignore Initiative

May 1, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Wading into a battle between a desert water district and its customers, a judge has ruled that officials ca...