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Personal Injury & Torts


Woman in Abuse Case Can Sue Over Home Search

Dec. 6, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says a woman suspected of abusing her blind 83-year-old mother should be able to sue ...


Law Practice


Publicly Interested

Dec. 6, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - As a gay Latino, Anthony Romero is an important voice for a wide cross-section of minorities. To civil libert...


Law Practice


Prosecutor Bats .800 in Front of Bench

Dec. 6, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - When his friends and colleagues talk about veteran prosecutor Kenneth Lamb, their minds turn to baseball. If La...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - When Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., portable toilet in tow, led a posse of inves...


Family


SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Arthur Scotland may be old enough - 57 - to join the American Association for Retired Peopl...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Kids appearing before Superior Court Referee Stephanie M. Davis in the Inglewood delinquency court may be in fo...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 4

Dec. 5, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEVERLY HILLS - David Kaufman of Marcus & Millichap is marketing a four-story apartment building built ...


Law Practice


Event Marks 100th Year of Juvenile Courts

Dec. 5, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - More than 1,500 members of the legal community will converge in Hollywood today to commemorate the 100th anniver...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Mari J. Frank - How is it possible for a divorcing couple's attorneys to facilitate a peaceful ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Avila v. Jado Properties Inc., 112 Cal.App.4th 405 (2003), t...


Litigation


Reforming Just-in-Time Justice

Dec. 5, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - Some of us aging attorneys recall the days when it took nearly five years to start a tri...


Criminal


U.S. Probes Letters to Candidates

Dec. 5, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities are investigating a string of letters that threatened potential candidates with torture or d...


Law Practice


Lawyer Violated Conduct Rules, Panel Says

Dec. 5, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - An attorney violated the California Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct when he sought to buy property with a cl...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - Santa Clarita attorney Allan J. Favish ran into a stone wall Wednesday at the Supreme Court in his crusade to obt...


Public Interest


Leader Raised Millions for Public Counsel

Dec. 5, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Karen Paull, the force behind fund-raising at the nation's largest public interest law firm, has died. She was 6...


Appellate Practice


Justices Erase Punitives From Tattoo Case

Dec. 5, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has upheld a jury award of $81,000 to a woman who was badly burned during tattoo removal i...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Midway through trial in a commercial rental dispute this summer, Judge Craig D. Karlan did some research and dis...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse reportedly tried to make peace over lunch. Well, not exactly. But Pa...


Judges and Judiciary


Standing His Ground

Dec. 5, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

OROVILLE - Barely a year after winning appointment to his new job, Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman found h...


Corporate


LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for the former chief financial officer of a Southern California computer firm told jurors in his fede...


Constitutional Law


Part of Anti-Terrorism Law Overturned

Dec. 5, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a blow Wednesday to a key portion of a 1996 federal anti-terrorism law by declar...


Litigation


Diocese Settles Priest Molestation Case for $1M

Dec. 5, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has agreed to pay $1 million plus $50,000 for counseling to a man who wa...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 3

Dec. 4, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Cornerstone On Broadway LLC acquired 24,210 square feet of industrial property in the "Toy To...


Law Practice


'Runaway Jury' or Inadequate Defense?

Dec. 4, 2003
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers and police are still reeling from a recent $33 million jury award to a black surgeon injured by...


Litigation


Forum Column - By Mark Goldowitz - On Sept. 6, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law SB515, which amends California's anti-SLAPP law...


Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Appellate mediation has been a feature of the 9t...


Intellectual Property


Feds' Anti-Spam Bill Indigestible

Dec. 4, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Few lawyers can claim to have fought spam e-mails with as much vigor as David Kramer. The Wilson Sonsini Good...


Criminal


Justices Rule Against 9th Circuit Twice

Dec. 4, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously slapped down the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...


Intellectual Property


Google Searches For Clarity

Dec. 4, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has asked a San Jose federal court to bestow legitimacy upon its profitable but highly controvers...


LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly stiffing the state's neediest population o...