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Government


City Settles Fishy Case With Fines

Sep. 24, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney agreed Monday to settle a code enforcement lawsuit against former port commissioner Pius Lee...


Judges and Judiciary


Santa Barbara Judge Resumes Work

Sep. 24, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA BARBARA - Judge Diana R. Hall has resumed her seat on the Santa Barbara County Superior Court bench, court officials sai...


Criminal


Panel Reverses Battered Woman's Conviction

Sep. 24, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying ...


Criminal


Jurist Sets Trial Date for Celebrity Sleuth

Sep. 24, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge Monday set an Oct. 8 trial for private investigator Anthony Pellicano after lawyers ...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names New Judge For Tulare

Sep. 24, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Visalia litigator Lloyd L. Hicks was appointed Monday to the Tulare County bench by Gov. Gray Davis. Hicks, 59...


Judges and Judiciary


Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Former Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, the hated Judge Dredd of Contra Costa C...


Government


Bustamante's Funding of Anti-54 Ads Fails Review

Sep. 24, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

SACRAMENTO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was wrong to use millions of dollars from his 2...


Judges and Judiciary


Column By Garry Abrams - Judicial schism! Judicial schism! Read all about it! When it comes to making news, the East Coast sho...


Government


'Bush v. Gore' Doesn't Interest En Banc Panel

Sep. 24, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The importance of Bush v. Gore beyond the current occupant of the White House appeared lost on most membe...


Government


Televised En Banc Hears Recall Argument

Sep. 24, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - California voters are likely to be going to the polls Oct. 7 instead of March 2004 to decide whether to recall...


Criminal


Teen Robber Doesn't Have to Earn 'B' Average

Sep. 23, 2003
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles teen convicted of second-degree robbery does not have to maintain a B grade average as a condition...


Law Practice


Exclusive!

Sep. 23, 2003
By Columnist

Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - With barren, craggy mountains in the backdrop, Geraldo Rivera appears on camera. His hair blowi...


Firm Watch


Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was more than accommodating to the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison lawyers it picked up as ...


Appellate Practice


When the Missouri Supreme Court faced a right of publicity case brought by a professional hockey player against a comic book, ...


Corporate


Source of Knowledge

Sep. 23, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Two years ago, Catholic Healthcare West signed a $600 million agreement to outsource its informa...


Law Practice


Beat the Crowd

Sep. 23, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Business Development - By Robert A. Potter - When firms lose a request for proposal, they usually blame it on their b...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory is 20 miles closer to its software and real estate companies in North Cou...


Constitutional Law


Planned Parenthood Head Will Lead San Diego ACLU

Sep. 23, 2003
By Claude Walbert

Nancy Sasaki, the former president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, has been named executive ...


Law Practice


Courts' Spanish Web Site Increases Access

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The jury is still out two months after the Judicial Council launched a Spanish version of the California Courts Self-Help Cent...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Preparation by Mediator, Lawyers Boosts Success

Sep. 23, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Kanon Alpert - For a mediation to succeed, the mediator and other principals ...


Litigation


Operator of Gas Station Beats Chevron

Sep. 23, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

A gas-station operator in San Pedro won a victory earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that Chevron improperly termin...


Litigation


Kin of Yosemite Murder Victims Settle Suit

Sep. 23, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

The relatives of a mother and daughter murdered during a 1999 sightseeing trip in Yosemite reached a $1 million settlement in ...


Firm Watch


Prosecutor Will Take a Stab at Private Practice

Sep. 23, 2003
By David Houston

Fresh out of Glendale College of the Law, Albert H. MacKenzie went to work in the district attorney's office because he wanted...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Court Rebukes Advocate for Mediating

Sep. 23, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

An appellate court in August expressed "misgivings" about the way a Santa Rosa attorney tried to mediate a dispute while at th...


Civil Rights


Good Times

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The Scene felt like a movie star strolling down Hollywood Boulevard to take a turn on the red carpet that led into the histori...


Firm Watch


Morrison & Foerster Re-Elects Chairman

Sep. 23, 2003
By Erik Cummins

The news that Keith Wetmore was re-elected chairman of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was a bit anticlimactic, Wetmor...


Firm Watch


Last Klein Lawyer Leaves Shaw Pittman

Sep. 23, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

The last former Klein & Martin lawyer to leave Shaw Pittman's Los Angeles office has found a new firm. Charles Fiedler joi...


Litigation


Woman Claims Store Ordered Her a Magazine

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Customers who use credit cards at Sam Goody stores may want to read the fine print. A Laguna Hills woman claims that when she ...


Firm Watch


Dykema Gossett Opens Pasadena Office

Sep. 23, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

When Detroit's Feeney Kellett Wienner & Bush closed its doors this summer, crosstown firm Dykema Gossett took advantage of...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - As members of the legal profession wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to res...