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Nolo Press Wins Victory in Texas

Apr. 20, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo Press chief Steven Elias is still mulling his next move in the Berkeley publishing company's struggle wi...


Home Work

Apr. 20, 1999
By Mary Micheletti

Last year, nearly 16 million Americans skipped the daily trip to an office and stayed home to work. By the year 2000, that nu...



Misplaced Kick Lands Man in County Jail

Apr. 20, 1999
By B. Scott Bortnick

SANTA MARIA - Jerry Loper's misplaced kick killed a Santa Maria woman last December. Now the 22-year-old man is off to county...


SEATTLE - Gonzaga University's basketball team put the school on the map by coming close to the top in March Madness tourname...



Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Apple

Apr. 20, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has thrown out a $17 million bad-faith judgment against two insurers, holding they were ...


Counsel Asks Letts to Reconsider

Apr. 20, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A day after U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts removed himself from presiding over a police shooting case, attorneys for th...



The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...


At Eastlake, Obstacles Are Enormous

Apr. 20, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...



Intrigue Surrounds Drafting of MICRA Reforms

Apr. 20, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...


WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...



A Sanctuary for Lost Souls

Apr. 20, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...


In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...



Ex-Prosecutor Longo Sues for Libel

Apr. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...


Prosecutor Can Stay On Trade-Secrets Case

Apr. 17, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...



A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...


SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...



Davis Names The Youngest CJP Member

Apr. 17, 1999
By Jean Guccione

The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...


On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...



Growing Pains

Apr. 17, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...


SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...



INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...


Term-Limit Act To Be Weighed By High Court

Apr. 16, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...



Prosecutor Wants Lawyer's Conviction Aired

Apr. 16, 1999
By Michael Harris

In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...


City Must Answer on Overtime Pay

Apr. 16, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...



Foundation Helps Students Overcome Hurdles

Apr. 16, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...


Tort Reformers Will Go by a New Moniker

Apr. 16, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...



'Formidable Opponent'

Apr. 16, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...


The Age of Innocence

Apr. 16, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...



Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...


Starr: Act Is Constitutionally Dubious

Apr. 16, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...