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Litigation


Ruling Puts Incumbent Back in Mayor's Chair

Dec. 9, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - State appellate justices moved incumbent Dick Murphy back into the mayor's chair Tuesday, lifting a court order th...


Criminal


Court Examines Retardation on Death Row

Dec. 9, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN DIEGO - Over strenuous objections from a state prosecutor, the California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to reopen t...


Administrative/Regulatory


SACRAMENTO - Two criminal defense lawyers prosecuted by the Yolo County District Attorney's office for disclosing witness inf...


Constitutional Law


Case Tests Limits of SLAPP Shield

Dec. 8, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Two corporate gadflies who helped define the limits of free speech on the Internet go before the California Suprem...


Appellate Practice


Media Reports May Trump Privacy Rights

Dec. 8, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Monday that public court records are fair game for television true-crime pro...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Trial Lawyer Finds His Own Stage

Dec. 8, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - With sincere apologies to Shakespeare, Antony I. Stuart often feels like all the courtroom's a stage and all the...


Transactions


Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 7

Dec. 8, 2004
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL TUSTIN - Bixby Land Co. purchased a 122,801-square-foot industrial building located at 1201 Bell Ave. from Little ...


Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - The Associated Press reported the good news Nov. 29 that violent school crime decreased ...


Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Psychologists warn us that the holidays present an emotional red alert for many peopl...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Lauri Kritt Martin - It is a fact of our society that we have become mor...


Column - By Garry Abrams - The brilliant fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes should be called in to investigate the th...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Board Won't Raise Ethic Exam's Passing Grade

Dec. 8, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

The State Bar Board of Governors rejected a proposal Saturday to raise the passing grade for the ethics exam all want-to-be-la...


Environmental


LOS ANGELES - The city's pledge to spend $500 million to mitigate the impact of LAX expansion on neighboring communities pass...


Labor/Employment


WASHINGTON - Issuing a sharp rebuke to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday ...


Criminal


Court Shines Light On Capital Appeals

Dec. 8, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court obviously isn't afraid of teaching young people that capital punishment in Calif...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - A significant portion of California's landmark consumer privacy law appears doomed, judging by arguments Mond...


Law Practice


Seattle's oldest and largest law firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, is expanding its Asian presence by merging its Taipei offic...


Government


Rookie to Lead Assembly Judiciary Committee

Dec. 8, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Newly elected Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, was appointed Monday as chairman of the Assembly Judiciary C...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's long-awaited murder trial was delayed yet again Monday because his attorney's computer containing...


Litigation


San Diego's Attorney Will Look Into Legal Costs

Dec. 8, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Saying municipal funds are running short, newly sworn-in San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre revealed Monday that...


Criminal


Juror's Silence Doesn't Void Sentence

Dec. 8, 2004
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The jury foreman failed to disclose his past as a stabbing victim and a criminal defendant, but the Californi...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said Monday it will file a lawsuit challenging Proposi...


Litigation


AAA Settlement

Dec. 8, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - The Automobile Club of Southern California agreed Monday to settle a class action brought by its employees for ...


Tax


LOS ANGELES - A complicated dispute between the Tribune Co. and the Internal Revenue Service made its way to trial Monday, wit...


Government


Fund-Raiser's Immigration Hearing Will Start

Dec. 7, 2004
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Civil liberties lawyers today will argue the curious case of an Orange County man who has been held by immigrati...


Personal Injury & Torts


Diocese Will Pay Victims $110 Million

Dec. 7, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Diocese of Orange agreed to pay $110 million to 87 victims of clergy sexual abuse, but some lawyers...


Public Interest


Wily Houston Quartet Takes Civil Trial Competition

Dec. 7, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

The teams facing off as finalists in the third annual National Civil Trial Competition stood in sharp contrast: an aggressive ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Dec. 6

Dec. 7, 2004
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL BALDWIN PARK - Apec Corp. purchased a 71,553 square-foot industrial building located at 5020-5050 Rivergrade Road f...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - The two camps vying to purchase the rights to sue Clifford Chance from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bank...


Firm Watch


Partners at the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster have chosen intellectual property litigator A. Max Olson as thei...