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Technology & Science


Settlement Reached in Non-Compete Suit

Dec. 1, 2000
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A New Jersey technology company, which had won an injunction barring two of its former employees from working at a ...


Litigation


Quake Bill Challenge Rebuffed

Dec. 1, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court denied a petition Wednesday by a group of insurers challenging the constitutionality...


Civil Rights


Crossing the Divide

Dec. 1, 2000
By Columnist

Although our criminal justice system is predicated on promises of equality, it often fails to deliver. Now more than ever, it ...


Technology & Science


The nation's third-largest cable company, Comcast Cable Communications Inc., announced Wednesday that it will open its system ...


International


If one is interested in an individual's ability to obtain access to justice, international mechanisms should not be overlooked...


Government


Retired Judge Maurice O. Huebsch Dies

Dec. 1, 2000
By Tina Spee

Services have taken place for Maurice O. Huebsch, retired judge for the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in Los Angeles. Hu...


Government


Controller Decries LAPD Security

Dec. 1, 2000
By Chris Ford

Los Angeles Police Department facilities for storing drugs, guns and money lack adequate security, including functioning alarm...


Government


Appellate Court OKs Tossing Tax Lawsuit

Dec. 1, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

Proposition 218, which gave California voters the right to vote on new taxes, does not apply to water use rates charged by the...


Government


Group Eases Life on the Streets

Dec. 1, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Brian Toutant remembers being repulsed when driving by homeless people holding signs such as "Will Work for Food," and "Homele...


Government


Court Drops Official's Reimbursement Case

Dec. 1, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

The former head of Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services cannot recover costs he incurred in defendi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


O.C. Bar Foundation Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Dec. 1, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Foundation, which founded a number of programs geared toward tackling juvenile crime, will c...


Government


Attorneys who represented groups that protested during the Democratic National Convention in a First Amendment dispute will be...


Firm Watch


Two past members of now-defunct Los Angeles firm Tuttle & Taylor have landed on their feet at the Los Angeles office of Jo...


Government


'Permatemps' Sue County After 11 Years

Dec. 1, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Two men who have worked for Los Angeles County for 11 years without employee benefits finally said "enough" Wednesday. John Ho...


Government


A Los Alamitos police officer bitten by a California Highway Patrol dog cannot sue for the bite. The dog bite was an inherent ...


Insurance


AIDS Insurance Case Goes Back to Trial Court

Dec. 1, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

A man whose suit brought about a landmark decision barring insurance companies from denying disability benefits based on evide...


Intellectual Property


When artwork or sculpture meld into the architectural functions of a building, that eliminates copyright protection under a 19...


Litigation


Decertify this! This week, the U.S. landscape looks - even more than usual - like it's been overrun by the big attack dogs of ...


Judges and Judiciary


Homeless Courts Seek Out Needy for Last Chance

Dec. 1, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

One of the men has a master's degree in human resources management and used to play semi-professional baseball before becoming...


Immigration


After a long struggle, Joe Fernandez thought his years of bad luck, heroin addiction, prison and family tragedy were almost ov...


Criminal


Prop. 36 Expectations Collide With Reality

Dec. 1, 2000
By Robert Selna

The challenges facing local officials trying to implement Proposition 36 - the "treatment not incarceration" initiative passed...


Judges and Judiciary


Not Enough

Dec. 1, 2000
By Staff Writer

Even though the state's Hispanic population is burgeoning, Latino attorneys are complaining that the number of Latino judges i...


Public Interest


David Grunwald didn't grow up dreaming of doing good. "I was a punk in high school," Grunwald recalled. Merle Haggard could do...


Immigration


A Dream Denied

Nov. 30, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Eyes welling with tears, Anai Garrido Garcia sat on a narrow cot in the concrete-block dormitory at the Los Padrinos juvenile ...


Probate


Costly Protections

Nov. 30, 2000
By Columnist

The growing complexity of the conservatorship process in California has greatly increased the costs of starting a conservators...


Law Practice


Services will take place in Westwood Sunday for international tax lawyer J. Blake Lowe. Lowe died Nov. 16 at Century City Hosp...


Civil Rights


Poverty Trap

Nov. 30, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The U.S. Census for 1990 reported that California has the highest number of single-parent, female-headed families in the Unite...


Public Interest


Aid Programs Help Alleviate Widespread 'Legal Poverty'

Nov. 30, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Discussions of inequality in 20th-century America focus on "social goods," such as medical care, housing, job security, enviro...


Law Practice


A Turkey for Edwards Sooy & Byron

Nov. 30, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Edwards, Sooy & Byron, whose roots date back to the late 1970s, is dissolving this week. "The primary reason [for closing]...


Litigation


Order Bars Coors from Selling Mexican Brews

Nov. 30, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Coors Brewing Co. had hoped to capitalize on Americans' taste for Mexican beers by launching its own line of south...