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Litigation


Touch-Screen Glitch Slows San Diego Elections

Mar. 4, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Early bird voters at one-fourth of San Diego County's precincts were unable to cast ballots because workers at pol...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - The trees in Winnie the Pooh's forest home were all chopped down to make paper to produce documents f...


Contracts


Author's $300,000 Award Upheld

Mar. 4, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld a $300,000 jury award Tuesday to a Woodland Hills attorney whose massive book o...


Entertainment & Sports


New Regulation Could Create Woe for Eisner

Mar. 4, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - When Walt Disney Co. shareholders gather today at the company's annual meeting in Philadelphia, they'll cast the...


Intellectual Property


Law Firm Dragged Into File-Sharing Case

Mar. 4, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, the law firm that briefly represented Dutch software company Kazaa, creator of the popular music...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese has fought for more than 20 months to keep confidential files on predator priests aw...


Law Practice


Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Alec H. Boyd - California attorneys who represent insured parties as independent defense cou...


Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - A new breed of lawsuit is opening up a bevy of opportunities for lawyers in search of c...


Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - Some crimes are so heinous that judges need a full arsenal of punishments to sentence the perpe...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The latest attorney to represent actor Robert Blake is a 35-year veteran who last year successfully won the rele...


Criminal


Foreign Burden

Mar. 3, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Fallen Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko left what some saw as a land of larceny in the Ukraine for the...


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of California's policy of placing Afric...


Appellate Practice


Recusal Question Goes to Scalia

Mar. 3, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the Sierra Club to have all nine justices consider whether Justice ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Takes His Time in Court

Mar. 3, 2004
By Karen Coleman

STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case before San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Clark Sueyres. Sueyres is careful and thoro...


Criminal


Prison Attorneys Reach Stalemate on Regulation

Mar. 3, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the auton...


Public Interest


Retiring Prosecutor Fought Hate Group

Mar. 3, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal prosecutor Robert D. Ward has retir...


Constitutional Law


Inmate Father Loses Custody Fight

Mar. 3, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LOS ANGELES - A sharply divided state Supreme Court held Monday that a biological father who was in prison for raping the moth...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee is crying out to be heard on a controversial proposal to give institutional shareholders...


Constitutional Law


SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor on Monday refused to order Anaheim to let a Florida farmworkers' group march throu...


Government


Oakland to Vote on Strong-Mayor System

Mar. 3, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland voters will decide today whether the strong-mayor form of government they adopted in 1998 - a reform t...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Gay and lesbian adoption rights gained strength Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a plea t...


LOS ANGELES - Last week's sweeping rebuke of Roman Catholic bishops and their role in the church's sexual-abuse crisis put the...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers in the Kobe Bryant case have filed a novel equal-protection challenge to Colorado's rape shield ...


Appellate Practice


Catholic Group Must Cover Birth Control

Mar. 3, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major church-and-state case, the California Supreme Court held Monday that a social service organization ...


Intellectual Property


Judge Gives Kymsta OK to Sell Under Roxywear Brand

Mar. 2, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

A federal judge has ruled that two Southern California companies can continue selling women's clothing lines with similar name...


Marketing


Talks Stress Leadership, Getting Press

Mar. 2, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

The Legal Marketing Association's annual conference, held this year in Orlando, Fla., is a chance for marketers across the co...


Transactions


Transactional lawyers in the Silicon Valley may be flashing back to the high-flying years of the late 1990s. Sunnyvale-based t...


Litigation


Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - During voir dire, attorneys often focus only on selecting jurors who will be m...


Investments


Milbank Tweed Assists Windy Fundings

Mar. 2, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Los Angeles partner Ed Feo of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has completed financing deals for two new wind energy projects...


Firm Watch


Weissmann Wolf Picks Up Partner

Mar. 2, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Marc Benezra has joined Beverly Hills' Weissmann, Wolf, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall as a partner. The real estate law...