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Judges and Judiciary


Candidate Can Use Laudatory Quotes

Aug. 31, 2002
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A state appellate court Thursday summarily rejected a bid by Santa Clara County judicial candidate Ron Del Pozzo to...


Judges and Judiciary


With a Gavel and a Shovel

Aug. 31, 2002
By John Roemer

FRESNO - Shovels and a hard hat adorn the chambers of Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Coyle, who has made a career of bui...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - Interviews: Tips for Success - By Lynn Mestel - Many lawyers, especially new ones, know their way around a...


Criminal


Westerfield Helped Millions, Doctor Says

Aug. 31, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An orthopedic surgeon testified Thursday that a rehabilitation device designed by convicted child-murderer David A...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers succeeded Thursday in a last-minute effort to get state Assembly approval for lengthening the statu...


Criminal


Senate OKs Limits On Executions

Aug. 31, 2002
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would implement a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning execution of the mentally retarded sque...


Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - There are five "golden rules" in the area of bankruptcy law. While exceptions do exist, attorn...


Appellate Practice


High Court Matters

Aug. 30, 2002
By David Pike

Dicta Column - The Bookshelf - By David F. Pike - Trying to interpret the work of the U.S. Supreme Court can be like viewing a...


Entertainment & Sports


DENVER - A small Colorado video rental company and an Idaho attorney sued 16 well-known Hollywood directors Thursday in an eff...


Family


Legal Orphans

Aug. 30, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Christopher Blake - In Re Jayson T., 97 Cal.App.4th 75 (2002), lays bare an ugly secret of the depend...


Large Firms


More Lyon Attorneys Find New Homes

Aug. 30, 2002
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Lyon & Lyon attorneys continue to scatter to full-service firms in anticipation of the intellectual property...


Appellate Practice


Panel Reaffirms Couple's Smuggling Conviction

Aug. 30, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Vlada Toulousheva and Evgenia Tsimbal had no intention of becoming prostitutes when they left their native Russi...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the World Trade Center towers fell, a U.S. Navy admiral appeared before a congressional commit...


Judges and Judiciary


Son of Legend Serves L.A., Too

Aug. 30, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - How does a budding young lawyer measure up to the life of a legend when that legend is his father and they share...


Judges and Judiciary


Taber to Receive Rose Bird Award

Aug. 30, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber has been chosen to receive the Rose Bird Memorial...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers faced plenty of opposition Wednesday to a bill that would curb corporations' use of the state's ant...


Column by Garry Abrams - The federal judiciary has been acting decidedly feisty over the Bush administration's war on terroris...


Government


Controversial Fund-Raising Firm Closes Doors

Aug. 30, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - He promised a vision of a world made better through for-profit charity, personal transformation and allowing peo...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday quietly ended decades of voluntary desegregation programs in Califor...


Criminal


DA Puts Westerfield's Niece on Stand

Aug. 30, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A niece of David A. Westerfield testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years old, her uncle came into the darken...


Litigation


Alioto, McCoy Face Off in Court

Aug. 30, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after they teamed together to win a record-setting race discrimination verdict against the makers of...


Litigation


Arbitrator Rules Publisher Should Pay Damages

Aug. 30, 2002
By Matthew Heller

SANTA BARBARA - In a case that mixed sex and a lawyer-client relationship, an arbitrator has ruled that wealthy newspaper publ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - By Michael J. Kump - In a recent thought-provoking article concerning the limits of Business and Professions Co...


Criminal


Man's Sentence Should Be Cut, Magistrate Says

Aug. 30, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - An AIDS-stricken man who was zapped with a stun belt during his three-strikes trial should have his sentence red...


Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Arbitration Hoops

Aug. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...


Administrative/Regulatory


Open Invitation for Trouble

Aug. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...


Large Firms


Fulbright Gains Lyon's Managing Partner

Aug. 29, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - As intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon plans to close its doors at the end of the week, the firm's Lo...


Criminal


Lawyer Faces Time For Bilking Family

Aug. 29, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney will be sentenced Oct. 24 after pleading guilty to embezzling $138,000 from the estate of on...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court will lay off 150 newly hired clerical employees and student workers by the end of...