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Judges and Judiciary


Column - By Garry Abrams - Leaks! Disinformation! Supreme Court intrigue! Until an hour before President Bush announced his ch...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has dealt at least a temporary setback to Attorney General Bill Lockyer's chall...


Family


High Court Says No to Same-Sex Marriage Foes

Jul. 22, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Conservative critics of gay nuptials cannot intervene in San Francisco's constitutional attack on the state's...


Criminal


SAN JOSE - A San Mateo attorney has been charged in Wisconsin with plotting with her then-boyfriend and his brothers to commi...


Transactions


Daily Deals -- Transactions for Wednesday July 20

Jul. 21, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

HOSPITALITY PALM SPRINGS - Highland Hospitality Corp. closed its previously announced acquisition of the 410-room Wyndham Pal...


Forum Column - By Mark Kulkis - I might be expected to have a bias against feminists because I make my living producing pornog...


Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Mette H. Kurth and Anastasia Jones - On April 28, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 9...


Administrative/Regulatory


Briefly

Jul. 21, 2005
By Maggie Guerin

The Daily Journal is now accepting nominations for the 2005 Top Women Litigators list. Please include attorney's name, firm, ...


Corporate


LOS ANGELES - The board of U.S. oil producer Unocal Corp. met near Los Angeles early this week to mull over an $18.5 billion ...


Judges and Judiciary


California's Courts Experienced a Busy Year

Jul. 21, 2005
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate dockets statewide grew to 22,824 cases during the most recent budget year, the most in three years,...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Mark I. Weinberger, the co-founder of one of California's pioneering environmental law firms, has died followi...


Corporate


Software Company's Offer for Rival Spurs Lawsuit

Jul. 21, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Concerto Software Inc. has agreed to acquire Aspect Communications Corp., a rival vendor of technology that powe...


Criminal


Court-Reporting Firm Denies Double-Billing

Jul. 21, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Pasadena-based court-reporting and interpreter company pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he do...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Med-Mal Suit Settles for $6 Million

Jul. 21, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

LOS ANGELES - A Laguna Niguel man who underwent routine elective neck surgery at the University of California, San Francisco,...


Labor/Employment


Salesman Can Sue for Wrongful Termination

Jul. 21, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - An insurance salesman suffering from alcoholism who took time off from work to care for his ailing mother can s...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - Four days after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom named Phil Ting to head the city's embattled assessor's offic...


Judges and Judiciary


Inyo Judge Took on L.A., Won

Jul. 21, 2005
By Don Ray

INDEPENDENCE - Inyo Superior Court Judge Brian J. Lamb presides over matters in a county that boasts some remarkable statistic...


Education


LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles has appointed Cheryl Ward, a former top official of the Los Angeles city att...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Armen Adzhemyan had an eventful first year at Boalt Hall. Adzhemyan spearheaded an effort to create a student co...


Judges and Judiciary


Trail-Blazing Napa County Judge Steps Down

Jul. 21, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge W. Scott Snowden, who led the way for Napa County to become the first to consolidate its municipal and ...


Judges and Judiciary


Bush Appoints D.C. Judge to Supreme Court

Jul. 21, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

WASHINGTON - Moments after President Bush announced John G. Roberts Jr., a federal appeals-court judge and former clerk to Chi...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals

Jul. 20, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy business-integration software provider SeeBeyond Technology Corp. ...


Government


Jury Convicts Three In Strip-Club Scandal

Jul. 20, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Bringing an end to a scandal that soiled the city's squeaky-clean image, a federal jury Monday convicted San Diego...


Law Practice


Federal Prosecutors Withholding Witness Lists

Jul. 20, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors in San Francisco preparing for a capital murder trial are refusing to share their witness...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Mitch Kamin and Becky Monroe - Think twice before deciding how much to tip the guy who dries your car at the...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Letter to the Editor - I read Jeffrey Lowe's opinion column, "Bill Allowing Pharmacist Approval for Morning-After Crosses a Le...


Probate


Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of Bernard v. Foley , 2005 DJDAR 7986, the 2nd District Court o...


Law Practice


Lawyers Live Without Time Zones

Jul. 20, 2005
By Erin Park

LOS ANGELES - A client in Macau may be a few clicks away on a PDA, but you might not know whether they were pleased or pertur...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Pamela Fulmer and Art Beeman have left Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, the third and fou...


Criminal


Judge Must Tell Why He Blocked File's Release

Jul. 20, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal has ordered a Compton judge to appear next month to explain why he refused to let a dep...