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Litigation


Pioneer Sold Consumers Faulty TVs, Lawsuit Claims

Jul. 7, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

A Florida man has filed a class action in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging Long Beach-based Pioneer Electronics USA sold hi...


Technology & Science


A maker of tiny computer chips recently scooped up a big win in Santa Clara Superior Court, when a jury awarded $29.9 million ...



Discipline


Bird Award Winners Flock Together

Jul. 7, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

INDIO - A few years back, Brian Harnik thought he had permission to take an Indio judge's robe from a coat rack and lend it to...


Criminal


Panel Calls for Large-Scale Prison Reform

Jul. 7, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A sweeping reform proposal for California's troubled prison system calls for eliminating 639 corrections jobs ...



Labor/Employment


Lawsuit Targets State Pest-Control Board

Jul. 7, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

After 25 years in the business of controlling pests through nonlethal means, San Mateo resident Allan Merrifield is going in f...


Litigation


William Shakespeare's character Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a mischievous servant who uses magic potion to make t...



Appellate Practice


SAN DIEGO - Decades after earning three Purple Hearts for wounds received in Vietnam, former helicopter pilot Dennis A. Schovi...


Firm Watch


Thanks to several dozen law firms, fewer of San Francisco's poor will go hungry this year. Sixty-five firms partnered with the...



Litigation


Two electronics companies are in heated litigation over six patents for computer and television screens - and according to one...


Public Interest


Power Relaxing

Jul. 7, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Five years ago, Stacy Phillips and Carole Handler bumped into each other while visiting a popular Los Angeles salon. While wai...



Firm Watch


Riverside's Best Best & Krieger added its first environmental law attorney to its San Diego outpost with the hire of partn...


Large Firms


Stephen Venable Jr., an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office, recently shared a piece of Olympic glo...



Firm Watch


Prosecutor Will Test Her Mettle at Ironman Triathlon

Jul. 7, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

As a contestant on the hugely popular CBS reality show "Survivor," Deena Bennett gulped exotic bugs, sliced through the dense ...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - The courts have been busy since this spring's landmark Supreme Court rul...



Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - To the inexperienced practitioner, legal...


Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - How would you feel if you were picked up from your office this evening, or from your ...



Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling on a case that will have far-reaching impli...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have been together for 10 terms - a modern record - they haven't sett...



Public Interest


Storytellers

Jul. 7, 2004
By Katherine Gaidos

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Just a few decades ago, the cast of characters was largely the same in courthouse hallways acros...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - After decades of taking a heavy pounding from the Supreme Court, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...



Judges and Judiciary


He's Not Just Horsing Around

Jul. 7, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike a lot of lawyers and jurists, Contra Costa County Commissioner Stephen Houghton has always led a full a...


Government


LOS ANGELES - After a Los Angeles policeman was videotaped beating a suspected car thief with a flashlight, Mayor James K. Hah...



Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to dozens of former employees, partners and retired partners of Brobeck, Phleger & H...


Real Estate/Development


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Explaining the recent denial of a land developer's request to rezone property so it coul...



Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Sylvia Marks-Barnett - Is horseplay in the workplace tolerable? One arbitrator-created definition for h...


Litigation


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Michael B. Moore - Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate a bo...



Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Peter Rosen, a lead attorney in the federal-court battle between World Trade Center leaseholders and insurance c...


Appellate Practice


Justices Reject Two-Thirds-Vote Requirement

Jul. 3, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

A state appellate court Thursday struck down a 2002 San Diego ballot initiative that required a two-thirds vote for any new ta...



Civil Rights


Gay Partner Can Be Presumed Parent, Panel Says

Jul. 3, 2004
By Claude Walbert

A nonbiological mother can claim to be the parent of a child in a same-sex marriage if the woman is viewed as the "presumed fa...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Who Filed Controversial Lawsuit Seeks Disability Retirement

Jul. 3, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Walter L. Blackwell III, the San Bernardino County judge who drew fire for a vitriolic lawsuit he filed ear...