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Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...


Front Page


For Richer, For Poorer

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tina Spee

In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...


Criminal


Continuing Threat

Mar. 25, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...


Education


Santa Clara Picks Law School Dean

Mar. 25, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency

Mar. 25, 2003
By Don De Benedictis

LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...


Judges and Judiciary


Governor Names Four to L.A. Superior Court

Mar. 25, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...


Immigration


Asylum Seekers From Mideast Face Obstacles

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...


Immigration


As Embassies Close, Business Gets Difficult

Mar. 25, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...


Criminal


Inmate Is Free After Patel's Order

Mar. 25, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...


Criminal


Disqualification Motion Is Unusual

Mar. 25, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...


Immigration


Fears Mount for Iraqi-American

Mar. 25, 2003
By Mark Cromer

LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...


Criminal


'Political Animal' From the Start

Mar. 25, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...


Criminal


CDAA Chief, Scott's Top Aide

Mar. 25, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...


Litigation


Black Santa Suffered No Bias, Jury Says

Mar. 25, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...


Judges and Judiciary


'People's Court' in the Gold Country

Mar. 22, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SONORA - Tuolumne Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Boyack seems to fit perfectly the role of a small-town judge. Usually dresse...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Rises as Community Grows, Changes

Mar. 22, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

LAKEPORT - When Judge Arthur H. Mann first took the bench in 1979, he presided over a one-room Kelseyville Justice Court in a ...


Litigation


Diocese Opposes Plan to Group Sex-Abuse Suits

Mar. 22, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego is petitioning to opt out of a proposed plan to bring up to 1,000 clergy sexual abuse l...


Constitutional Law


Circuit Rejects Porn Charge Against Mother

Mar. 22, 2003
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year...


Law Practice


State High Court Expands Definition of Disability

Mar. 22, 2003
By Sandra Corrales

Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - While federal courts continue to narrow the coverage of federal equal-opportunity and w...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, propert...


Product Liability


Smoking Verdict Survives Immunity

Mar. 22, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first test of the state's new tobacco liability laws, a San Francisco appeal court has affirmed a $26.5...


Large Firms


Brobeck Partners Confront Liability

Mar. 22, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's professional liability insurance runs out April 15, there's a good chan...


Criminal


Juror Dismissal Doesn't Bar Retrial

Mar. 22, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's improper dismissal of a juror in the middle of a criminal trial does not bar the prosecution from re...


Judges and Judiciary


Business Was Not As Usual

Mar. 22, 2003
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of anti-war protesters intermittently blocked entrances to the San Francisco federal building all day T...


Litigation


Dog Handler Wins Bias Suit Against LAPD

Mar. 22, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $3.6 million to a Los Angeles police-dog handler who claimed officers and supervisors di...


Environmental


LOS ANGELES - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, tentatively agreed to a $1.7 billion settlemen...


Criminal


Engineer Has Patent on Leadership of Bar Group

Mar. 22, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Philip H. Lam may not be a rocket scientist, but he has designed nuclear power plants. Lam is not only an attorn...


Entertainment & Sports


Polanski Won't Make Appearance, Experts Say

Mar. 22, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A quarter-century ago, then-44-year-old Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before he cou...


Law Practice


Litigator Puts Career on Hold

Mar. 22, 2003
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Brian Lawler has rejoined the ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps' few and proud. Four months after Lawler ...