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Real Estate/Development


Beware!

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Warnings can discharge the duty of those who control property to deal responsibly with foreseeable third-party crime. ...


Litigation


Group Sues Businesses Over Junk Faxes

Apr. 6, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to terminate junk faxing, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has sued Arnold Schwarzen...


Judges and Judiciary


Legal Appeal

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Well, the Girl Scout cookie sale is over. Since the cookies were equally fresh and identically priced, which little girl got y...


Labor/Employment


Key to Justice

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Before the opinion of the Court of Appeal in Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie, 63 Cal.App.4th 1128 (1998), the plaintiffs'...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Edwin C. Amos Jr., retired senior trial attorney at Woodland Hills' Chernow & ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Feuer wants to turn the city attorney's office into a 400-lawyer public-interes...


Criminal


Salvadoran Immigrant Wins Appeal

Apr. 6, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Joe Fernandez, the Salvadoran widower who has battled deportation since 1996, has won an appeal to have his case...


Litigation


Former Paralegal Sues Attorney for Expenses

Apr. 6, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A former paralegal for Herbert Hafif has filed suit against the Claremont attorney seeking compensation for year...


Entertainment & Sports


Rap Mogul Probably Will Switch Prisons

Apr. 6, 2001
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - Imprisoned rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight reportedly will not go free this spring. Instead, the Death Row Record...


Constitutional Law


Border Patrol Agent Sues His Supervisors

Apr. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Border Patrol agent has sued four of his supervisors in federal court, alleging they violated his free speech ri...


Law Practice


Award-Winning Orange County Lawyer Succumbs

Apr. 6, 2001
By Claude Walbert

NEWPORT BEACH - Robert Samuel Barnes, the only person known to have received the Orange County Bar Association's two highest a...


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles police-car bombing conspiracy case against former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Ol...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Misdemeanors are the Rodney Dangerfield of crimes. They get no respect. "Too many judges don't take misdemeanors...


Criminal


The Death-Case Backlog Lives On

Apr. 6, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine down, 592 left to go. That's the scorecard on California's Death Row following last week's execution of ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - As the sun rose over a San Fernando Valley park one morning many years ago , a Los Angeles prosecutor found hers...


Government


LOS ANGELES - "Yo, Los Angeles!" Deputy Mayor Rockard "Rocky" Delgadillo wants to be your next city attorney. Driving past bil...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared skeptical Wednesday about reviving a major class action alleging that nin...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court expressed mild alarm Wednesday when a prosecutor argued there is no special protect...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Frank Tavelman had two days to produce a key witness or blow a three-strikes case he de...


Law Practice


Judges Remove Attorney From Pro Bono Panel

Apr. 5, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kicked a Los Angeles lawyer off a panel that represents in...


Law Practice


The Story Behind the Dog-Maul Story

Apr. 5, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Long before prosecutors charged Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel in the dog-mauling death of Diane Whipple, Ha...


Technology & Science


A 'Techno' Moment

Apr. 5, 2001
By Columnist

How many times have you had to prepare a joint document with several lawyers and spent more time coordinating the attorneys' s...


Product Liability


Blameworthiness

Apr. 5, 2001
By Ed Kimble

Ten years ago, Lambert v. General Motors had all the elements of a loser case. A teen-age driver, whose blood tested ju...


Law Practice


Booted Lawyer May Return to Work, Judge Says

Apr. 5, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney who sued his former partners after they kicked him out of the firm may be able to return ...


Litigation


Master of Crusades

Apr. 5, 2001
By Ed Kimble

Michael J. Piuze tried to leave his heart in San Francisco, but he couldn't find a taker. So he brought it to Los Angeles and ...


Constitutional Law


Every day, the words of the First Amendment are turned into reality through the hundreds of demonstrations, pickets and organi...


Criminal


Prison Cells

Apr. 5, 2001
By Columnist

On Feb. 8, at approximately 1 p.m., my work supervisor called me to the office. He told me that I needed to report to the pris...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Different Worlds

Apr. 5, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

They said they wanted a businessman's divorce. What they really wanted was someone to salve old wounds. In one of the first ca...


Litigation


Reasonable Doubt

Apr. 5, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Pamela Koslyn, a Los Angeles sole practitioner, won a $14.3 million verdict as co-counsel in a case of fraud and interference ...


Litigation


Blind Negotiations

Apr. 5, 2001
By Columnist

Does anyone trust that which they cannot touch, taste, hear, sense or smell? Can anyone really believe that meaningful negotia...