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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for May 4

May 5, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Carlsbad Distribution LLC, c/o RJ Realty Investors, purchased a 56,348-square-foot industrial building a...


Litigation


Gas-Plant Challenge Tests NAFTA

May 5, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Critics of an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal Tuesday sought help from an international trade panel in...


Criminal


County to Get Lawyers for Gang Cases

May 5, 2005
By Jim Adamekn

SAN BERNARDINO - Saying they are "declaring war on gangs," the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors approved funds Tuesday to h...


Government


Write-In Candidates' Backers Drop Appeal

May 5, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego men contesting the failure to count 5,500 ballots cast for write-in candidate Donna Frye in the Nov...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Angela Agrusa, the former coordinator of Baker & Hostetler's California litigation practice, jumped to Los ...


Criminal


Judge Tells Jurors to Ignore City's Problems

May 5, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday said prospective jurors "must set aside" how they feel about San Diego's contentious fi...


Judges and Judiciary


Fern Smith to Retire From Federal Bench

May 5, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Senior U.S. District Judge Fern Smith, a Reagan appointee who joined San Francisco's federal bench in 1988, h...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney's mother raised her two sons alone after her husband died w...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Did a male Sacramento County building inspector have a "Me Tarzan, you Jane" gender bias against a female con...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the man convicted of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion have a tall order to convince ju...


Family


Judge Tosses Part of Maher Palimony Suit

May 5, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed three of five counts in a $9 million palimony suit a former pi...


Administrative/Regulatory


Judiciary OKs Release of Audit, Records

May 5, 2005
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - An open-government advocate said Tuesday the Judicial Council craftily agreed to release records and audit resul...


Banking


Ex-Morgan Stanley Executive Sues Company

May 5, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - A former Morgan Stanley vice president has filed a wrongful termination suit against the financial bellwether, ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for May 3

May 4, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL NEWARK - Stephens & Stephens LLC purchased a two industrial buildings totaling 200,658 square feet of space at ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The public is getting access to dozens of once-secret documents filed in the criminal cases of accused double a...


Litigation


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - There is an old saying that goes something like this: Be careful what you wish for; you ...


Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The U.S. Tax Court's recent decisions in Estate of Wayne Bongard , 124 TC No. 8 (20...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Interpreters from 10 courthouses stretching from Monterey to Sonoma won't be at work today. Instead, they'll ...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Mezias made a mental note to herself when Jones Day recruited Robert Mittelstaedt, a senior litigation ...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Judges Fill Three Commissioner Slots

May 4, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Three open commissioner seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court were filled Friday with the election of Santa M...


Government


Whistle-Blower Gets Day in Court

May 4, 2005
By Dan Evans

LOS ANGELES - A former Carson official who said she was fired for exposing corruption in the south Los Angeles County city wi...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran Jurist Is Quiet But Sharp

May 4, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza doesn't say much in court. He just lets the lawyers try t...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Could that be a dead, stinking rat wrapped in the First Amendment on the doorstep of the Santa Moni...


Criminal


Literary Gangster Pleads

May 4, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and t...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Vision Plan Can't Benefit From Law's Flaw

May 4, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A major national eye care provider called Vision Service Plan had a vision of its own: Use a lawmakers' typo ...


Firm Watch


Partner Gets Her Wish in Move to Bingham

May 4, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When Wendy Lazerson joined Holland & Knight five years ago, she hoped to spearhead its labor and employme...


Intellectual Property


Patent Settlement

May 4, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $325 million EMC Corp. to end four years of litigation over patents for ...


Juvenile


Pop Star May Take Unusual Legal Action

May 4, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles prosecutor who now works as a defense lawyer says he may file a federal civil rights lawsui...


Criminal


Accused Defender Accepts Contempt Citation

May 4, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - The criminal case against former Santa Clara County deputy public defender Thomas Spielbauer for misleading a judg...


Litigation


Taking cases on contingency has long been a practice reserved for personal-injury or trial attorneys willing to take on an ind...