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Education


Bankruptcy Stealth Move Sparks Outrage

Jan. 24, 2004
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans ...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - Signaling a breakdown in the year-old attempt to settle civil litigation over the Catholic Church sexual abuse s...


Government


WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of a...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Job-bias statutes frequently put employers strivi...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurists See Through Bush's Sophistry

Jan. 23, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "The great opportunity of the American bar is and will be to stand ... ready to protect the...


Intellectual Property


Panel Reanimates Roger Rabbit Case

Jan. 23, 2004
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Wednesday revived claims that Disney cheated the author of the book behind "Who Framed Roger Ra...


Government


Prison System Woes Exposed

Jan. 23, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - California's former inspector general warned state senators Wednesday that the new governor's appointment of R...


Law Practice


Litigator Was Committed to Public Service

Jan. 23, 2004
By Amy Spees

LOS ANGELES - Paul George Bower, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died at home Dec....


Personal Injury & Torts


S.F. Said to Conceal Adoptee's HIV Data

Jan. 23, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether San Francisco adoption and health officials intentionally dec...


Communications


Kenneth Starr Will Teach at Chapman

Jan. 23, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Conservative icon Kenneth Starr will teach an advanced constitutional law class at Chapman University in Orange, ...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran Los Angeles Judge Will Retire

Jan. 23, 2004
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica family law attorney Ruth L. Estep learned that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderk...


Criminal


Sleuth's Lawyers Slam Prosecutors

Jan. 23, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Anthony Pellicano blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for "desperately and ineffectively" trying...


Administrative/Regulatory


PUC Asked to Revisit the PG&E Plan

Jan. 23, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents, in the first step toward launching a court challenge, have asked the California Public Utilities Co...


Criminal


When Pleading Guilty: Beware

Jan. 23, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants cont...


Appellate Practice


Sentencing Mistake Leads to Man's Retrial

Jan. 23, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turns...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Daniel Fenton, head of the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, sounded like he was making a pitch for the O...


Law Practice


Herrera Is Hip, Says Pink

Jan. 23, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - SAN FRANCISCO - Some government lawyers toil in the relative obscurity of legislative committ...


Government


Lowering of Vehicle Fee Is Illegal, Groups Claim

Jan. 23, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Two civil rights organizations and a student group Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate Gov...


Appellate Practice


Column By Garry Abrams - OK, children, time for a quick tour through Winnie the Pooh country to get an update on the latest le...


Criminal


ENRON PROSECUTOR NAMED

Jan. 23, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - The head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Orange County has been tapped to help prosecute the Enron cases, prosecu...


Criminal


Peterson Judge Described as Polite, Powerful

Jan. 23, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Richard Arnason reluctantly retired from the Contra Costa County bench nine years ago but remained its most active ...


Entertainment & Sports


Off the Docket

Jan. 22, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

TODAY GARDENING - The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden offers " Plant Soup, Part II: More Mediterranean and Ari...


Criminal


Notebook - By Pamela McLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Santos L. Reyes will spend 25 years in prison because he tried to take the writt...


Criminal


Taking No Chances

Jan. 22, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - At about 2:45 p.m. June 21, 2000, self-proclaimed "Sausage King" Stuart Alexander activated the security camer...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Roger Ito set his sights on the courtroom when he was a young child. Ito looked up to Morio L. Fuku...


Criminal


San Mateo Is Eager for The Peterson Murder Trial

Jan. 22, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County judges want everyone to know they did not lobby to have the Scott Peterson murder trial moved ...


Judges and Judiciary


State Chiefs Speak of Resistance

Jan. 22, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - With election season looming, chief justices from around the nation brainstormed Tuesday on how to protect jud...


Government


'Green Wall' Said to Rule State Prisons

Jan. 22, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In emotion-filled testimony, witnesses told a special Senate committee Tuesday that a "green wall" representin...


Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Davidson, 2003 DJDAR 12851 (Cal. A...


Immigration


Preserving Virtues of America

Jan. 22, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin and Winfield Myers - In unveiling his immigration-reform plan, President George W. Bush stated...