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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...


Criminal


Forced Testimony Nixes Conviction

Nov. 30, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

A woman's unwilling testimony against her husband has led an appellate court to reverse the Fullerton man's 26-years-to-life s...


Criminal


Alternate Juror Denies Hearing Biased Remarks

Nov. 30, 2000
By David Houston

An alternate on the jury that convicted three Los Angeles Police Department officers of corruption-related charges denied Tues...


Criminal


Commissioner Dismisses Murder Charge

Nov. 30, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has dismissed a murder charge against an alleged gang member in a case tinged with a...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names Five to Bench In Bay Area

Nov. 30, 2000
By Staff Writer

Five Bay Area attorneys were named to local superior court benches on Tuesday, bringing to 11 the number of new judicial appoi...


Environmental


Environmentalists hope to open a new era in cleaning up California water pollution by asking state regulators to impose contro...


Judges and Judiciary


On a recent Wednesday afternoon, eight fresh-faced teens, wearing identical sweats, trooped single-file into a downtown Los An...


Litigation


For 16 years, the city of Los Angeles has been playing a game of cat and mouse with a landlord whose housing violations have r...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Putting the brakes on police roadblocks, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the Fourth Amendment is vi...


Immigration


Local Law School Launches Immigration Clinic

Nov. 30, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Students interested in immigration law soon will get the opportunity to work on actual cases, when the University of Southern ...


Law Practice


Judge Finds No Evidence of Lawyer Misconduct

Nov. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case of a defendant who contended his lawyer...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Man in GHB Death of Teen-ager

Nov. 29, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

JOSHUA TREE - A Los Angeles man who provided the drug GHB to a teen-ager who died at an all-night party in the desert was conv...