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Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appellate court Monday threw out a million-dollar age and discrimination ...


Criminal


Blake Defense Fights Search Evidence

Oct. 6, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorney wants to keep from jurors all "tangible and intangible" evidence seized during a May 200...



Judges and Judiciary


Attorney to Get Award For Family Law Efforts

Oct. 6, 2004
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Bonnie Rose Hough, a senior attorney at the Administrative Office of the Courts' Center for Families, Children...


Government


rship dues.

Oct. 6, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...



Immigration


SAN FRANCISCO - Two of four Iranian brothers jailed since 2001 as supporters of an alleged terrorist group must be released on...


Column By Garry Abrams - Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, on the Nov. 2 ballo...



Criminal


Tale of Woe Is Scheme to Get Cash, DA Says

Oct. 6, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The family had a run of misfortunes beginning in 1999. The father and one daughter were killed while cliff diving ...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that portions of the federal sentencing guidelines are uncons...



Judges and Judiciary


Keeping It Real

Oct. 6, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - The clothes may not make the man, but sometimes they offer some clues. In the case of Alameda County Superior ...


Government


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a challenge to California's tribal-state gambling compacts that al...



Government


Homelessness Gets Day in Court

Oct. 5, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Activist Ted Hayes will be in court this week to fight for $532 million from the city of Los Angeles for alleged...


Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - This first Monday in October presents oral arguments in a pair of expedited cases in the U....



Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Daniel Moulthrop - The combatants in the endless and expensive wars over water use in California should meet...


Criminal


Gentle Giant

Oct. 5, 2004
By Tina Spee

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - Long before Arthur Andersen and Martha Stewart made high-profile financial fraud ...



Judges and Judiciary


Justice's Confirmation Hearing Set

Oct. 5, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a confirmation hearing Tuesday on Justice Norman Epstein's nom...


Law Practice


Ex-Judge Says He Didn't Lift $176,000

Oct. 5, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Former Compton Judge Huey Percy Shepard pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he siphoned $176,000 from clients, ...



Judges and Judiciary


Bench Recuses Itself From Christian-Inscription Suit

Oct. 5, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The county's Superior Court judges have decided they cannot fairly hear a lawsuit accusing the court's presiding j...


Criminal


Column By Philip Carrizosa - Federal officials brought their road show to San Francisco last week, trying to invigorate a law ...



Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko committed repeated acts of willful misconduct through his ...


Litigation


Many come to the Westin Century Plaza Hotel & Spa and the St. Regis Los Angeles to be doted on while they relax at the swa...



LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court last week ended a simmering legal controversy over Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delga...


Firm Watch


Look Within

Oct. 5, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Keiser - Since Sept. 11 and the dot-com bust, firms have lost significant amounts of ...



Firm Watch


Executive compensation law specialist Philip Koehler has joined the corporate law group at Orange County's Stradling Yocca Car...


Litigation


Hooters Shorted Music Company, Lawsuit Alleges

Oct. 5, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

The Hooters restaurant chain, under fire because of a location manager who sexually harassed 14 women by secretly watching the...



Firm Watch


Fish Gives Management Partner an Assist

Oct. 5, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

San Diego's Fish & Richardson found out that two really is better than one when it comes to firm management. The firm crea...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Tackles Gay Marriage, War on Terrorism

Oct. 5, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

Same-sex marriages, the war on terrorism and, of course, the nuts and bolts of practicing law in California will be leitmotifs...



Administrative/Regulatory


Firm Administrators Help Clothe Shelter Residents

Oct. 5, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

By Don J. DeBenedictis Law-office administrators from around Orange County helped homeless and battered women move forward wit...


Criminal defense attorney William T. Mayo of Chico recently sued to stop two judges from continuing to open court sessions by ...



Litigation


Academic politics are so bitter because the stakes are so small, Henry Kissinger once said. So the level of acrimony is especi...


Litigation


After eight years of litigation and three appeals, an infringement dispute between two Southern California orange-drink compet...