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Judges and Judiciary


Judge Gives, Receives Respect

Mar. 21, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Alleged murderers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers - they've all passed through Los Angeles Superior Cou...


Entertainment & Sports


Off the Docket

Mar. 21, 2003
By Jeff Berg

By Jeff Berg Entertainment Editor Today JAZZ - The Jazz Bakery in Culver City presents crooner Freddy Cole at 8 p.m. and 9:30...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - In his article on Berkeley's battle with the Sea Scouts, "The Blessings of Liberty: Ci...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Adam C. Abrahms - The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in "Union Trends...


Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Interest is a big deal. It may not seem like much to someone getting ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - After three decades serving the law department of Unocal Corp., Dennis P.R. Codon has left the El Segundo-based ...


Criminal


Grand Jury Transcripts to be Open

Mar. 21, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ksenia Tsenin ruled Wednesday in favor of unsealing the vast majority of the grand jury t...


Environmental


Column By Garry Abrams - From my perspective in downtown Los Angeles - where asphalt, concrete and contentiousness grow in lus...


Criminal


Prosecutors: Moratorium On Executions Unnecessary

Mar. 21, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - California prosecutors rejected the notion Wednesday that the state may have innocent inmates on death row and ba...


Criminal


High Court To Review Attempted Rape Case

Mar. 21, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether it's kidnapping when a badge-toting phony secu...


Litigation


Picasso Judge Insists He Can Rule Objectively

Mar. 21, 2003
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied charges that he cannot be fair in judging a lawsuit over ...


Law Practice


SAN JOSE - James F. Boccardo, a legendary personal injury lawyer who was one of the first attorneys to win million-dollar jury...


Military Law


War Games

Mar. 20, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Mark T. Clark - Many people harbor doubts about the war with Iraq. These people don't fully understand that ...


Government


War Games

Mar. 20, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Stephen Yagman "[M]y secret opinion of this country: its follies, vices, grievous disappointments ... I believ...


Judges and Judiciary


Stature and Gravity

Mar. 20, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

Attorneys first setting foot in Judge Robert L. Dondero's courtroom may feel a little intimidated. First, there's his appearan...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Enjoys New Perspective

Mar. 20, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Bernard J. Schwartz uses a football analogy to describe the way his experience as one of Riverside Superior Court'...


Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of McAdams , 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 (20...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Stephen R. Reinhardt - Professor Laurie L. Levenson's recent column about Judge Alex Kozinski astonished me....


Constitutional Law


On the Record

Mar. 20, 2003
By Columnist

Forumn Column - By Duffy Carolan - Since January 2001, the California Rules of Court have required a noticed motion, a hearing...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - In an unusual defense win, U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has ruled that hundreds of photos of naked boys...


Litigation


Disabled Man Barred From Flight Sues Airline

Mar. 20, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - An Orange County surgeon recovering from hip surgery filed an eight-count civil rights lawsuit against American Ai...


Insurance


Court OKs Couple's Suit Against Lawyer

Mar. 20, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area couple can pursue a lawsuit against an insurance company lawyer who they allege tricked them ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Benjamin M. Paik, a fifth-year associate at the Los Angeles offi...


Employee Benefits


Judge Finally Sets Brobeck Trial Date

Mar. 20, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Refusing to brook further delay, a trial judge ordered Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's new counsel Tuesday to...


Constitutional Law


New Suit Blasts Sweeps on Skid Row

Mar. 20, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES -Labeling the recent Skid Row police sweeps "witch hunts," the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild Tuesday filed a...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best, a San Francisco court commissioner for 30 years and the court's resident expert on technology an...


Criminal


Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - The arguments about public access to information in the police cover-up case are start...


Judges and Judiciary


GOP Loses Third Filibuster Vote

Mar. 20, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday failed in their third attempt to end the Democratic filibuster on the nomination of...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - The policy-making body for the federal courts has voted to ask Congress to create 57 new judgeships this year, in...


Litigation


Inglewood Police Had Warning

Mar. 20, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Inglewood police raised concerns about several of their police officers years before one of them was videotaped ...