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Judges and Judiciary


Worker's Comp Appeals Board Judge Dies at 53

Aug. 18, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Brian Paul McGovern, a judge with the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board in Pomon...


Education


ACLU Legal Director Says He Overstepped

Aug. 18, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Mark Rosenbaum, who Tuesday called for the removal of the superint...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Silvia Saucedo has been a Los Angeles police commissioner for less than 24 hours, and she's already conducting h...


Civil Rights


Worker Halted Pilots' Drug Test, Suit Alleges

Aug. 18, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - In the immediate hours after a Southwest Airline jet overshot a runway at Burbank airport and crashed into a car...


Large Firms


Taking Along A Client

Aug. 18, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - A $70 million lawsuit that calls into question how lawyers handle the business they take with them when they s...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


State Owes Minor Parents Living With Their Parents

Aug. 18, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO The state Department of Social Services has agreed to pay thousands of dollars in welfare benefits withheld from...


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has granted a mistrial and recused himself from a civil case after an attorney accused the j...


Personal Injury & Torts


SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers owe a duty of care not to endanger motorists they pull over for traffic violations, the Califo...


Public Interest


Lawyers Need Not Fear Capital Markets

Aug. 18, 2001
By Columnist

Lawyers generally know little about investment planning, even the ones who spent their undergraduate years majoring in busines...


Law Practice


Illusions of Greatness

Aug. 18, 2001
By Columnist

Because they don't spend much time at home, a lawyer's office is a lawyer's castle, or cottage, as the case may be. And whethe...


Criminal


Alleged False Report Gets Officer Indicted

Aug. 18, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accused of falsely claiming that he responded to a domestic-violence call ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Shooting Victim's Family Gets $1M

Aug. 18, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Survivors of a man killed four years ago during a spate of deadly police shootings in Sonoma County have agree...


Litigation


Six Men Allege DA Framed Them

Aug. 18, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Six men who spent years behind bars after being charged with killing a San Diego police officer have sued the dist...


Constitutional Law


Humanists Are Moral Creatures

Aug. 18, 2001
By Columnist

Can one be moral without a belief in God? Secular humanists affirm that we can; religious conservatives deny it. Without belie...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Land O'Lakes

Aug. 18, 2001
By Columnist

Where an agency's denial makes clear the extent of development permitted, ripeness rules do not require the submission of furt...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The federal judges of the Central District of California voted to keep John S. Gordon as interim U.S. attorney w...


Large Firms


Coudert Nabs Intellectual Property Pro

Aug. 18, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property attorney Ed Lynch has left Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe for Coudert Brothers, and...


Public Interest


It seems hard to get through a day lately without hearing about new layoffs at one of the Bay Area's stalwart firms. Firms tha...


Law Practice


Jurist Sends Attorney Impersonator to Prison

Aug. 18, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A convicted felon who falsely claimed to be an attorney and bilked "clients" out of thousands of dollars was sen...


Labor/Employment


Wrongful Termination Suit Brings $5.45M

Aug. 18, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCSICO - PeopleSoft Inc., a Pleasanton business software maker, has been hit with a $5.45 million wrongful termination ...


Criminal


Justice Denied

Aug. 17, 2001
By Columnist

During the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century, Dr. Philippe Pinel entered the newly liberated jails and hacked o...


Insurance


Daily Debate

Aug. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Unless there is a conflict of interest between the insured and the insurance carrier, the rate limitations do not apply. ...


Insurance


Offset Obligation

Aug. 17, 2001
By Columnist

General liability insurance policies typically require insurers to defend their policyholders against third-party lawsuits tha...


Large Firms


Paul Hastings Earns Award for Innovation

Aug. 17, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has received an award for innovative business practices an...


Marketing


Busy lawyers often overlook possible business development opportunities by focusing too much on the specific projects at hand....


Law Practice


Tax Attorney, Author Dies of Heart Failure, 72

Aug. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills tax attorney, author and lecturer Bruce I. Hochman has died. Hochman died of heart failure Saturda...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Smokers' Lawsuit Reinstated in Part

Aug. 17, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reinstated part of a lawsuit brought by smokers against San...


Criminal


Judge Delays Hera's Execution

Aug. 17, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of the Presa Canarios involved in the January mauling death of Diane Whipple, has survived to fight ...


Public Interest


Stadium Reveries

Aug. 17, 2001
By Columnist

The Dodgers play one of those rare day games at the ravine today. In the old days we called them "Businessmen's Specials," but...


Government


Tipster's Kin Settles Wrongful-Death Suit

Aug. 17, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Attorneys have reached a $1.2 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the Ontario Police Depa...