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Litigation


Court Interpreters Lead a Precarious, Limbo-Like Life

Sep. 14, 2000
By Contributing Writer

By Mark McCaffrey. One might wonder whether Arnold Schoenberg, the father of atonal, discordant modern music, would have appro...


Administrative/Regulatory


O.C. Bankruptcy Forum Sets Talk

Sep. 14, 2000
By Staff Reports

Theodor C. Albert of Albert, Weiland & Golden, a Chapter 7 trustee, and attorney Stanley Minier of the Law Office of Stanl...


Immigration


Outcast Away

Sep. 14, 2000
By Columnist

By Kathrin Mautino. For many years, the laws regulating asylum were subject to political and cultural influences. During the C...


Elder Law


Board Suggests Hotline for Seniors

Sep. 14, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Los Angeles County senior citizens soon may have a weapon to defend their pocketbooks from exploitation. ...


Education


William Rosar will not get his day in court. A state appellate court has affirmed the dismissal of his disability discriminati...


Government


Court Sets Hearing For Rampart Officer

Sep. 14, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A preliminary hearing for Los Angeles Police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, who is accused of framing and trying to murder an unar...


Product Liability


WASHINGTON - Reacting to the Firestone-Ford tire fiasco, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she and Judic...


Criminal


Judge Sets Hearing for Two Men Arrested at DNC

Sep. 14, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor on Tuesday scheduled a Sept. 25 preliminary hearing for two men charged wit...


Law Practice


The Birds Endow a Chair at Davis

Sep. 14, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Tim Pestotnik discovered the information almost by accident. One day last month, he stopped by Charlie Bird's office at Luce, ...


Litigation


Irvine Valley College President Sues District

Sep. 14, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The president of Irvine Valley College has filed a lawsuit against the South Orange County Community College Distr...


Education


ACLU Blasts Lack of Textbooks

Sep. 14, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

American Civil Liberties Union attorneys charged Tuesday that thousands of public school students in California don't have tex...


Criminal


Alleged Carjacker Burke Pleads Not Guilty

Sep. 14, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

An alleged carjacker accused of holding up President Clinton's motorcade last month while leading police on a high-speed freew...


Judges and Judiciary


Drug Charges Against Jurist Are Dismissed

Sep. 14, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has closed the book on charges that a Los Angeles judge had improperly us...


Government


The Los Angeles Police Department will be required to document searches, as well as vehicle and pedestrian stops, make major u...


Criminal


A Woodland Hills attorney received money from a Washington, D.C., pro-police group to represent a now-retired officer in the n...


Government


Supreme Court Gets L.A. Gun Show Issue

Sep. 14, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A decision in a case challenging Los Angeles' ban on gun sales at the Pomona fairgrounds was delayed Tuesday w...


Criminal


State Sen. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday joined leaders of the fight ...


Marketing


Milking More Profit

Sep. 13, 2000
By Columnist

Firms should beware of beauty contests during boom times. By Anne Bothwell. ...


Public Interest


By Stephen Yagman. I am told that there was a Rico Petrocelli who played third base for the Boston Red Sox. RICO, also known a...


Public Interest


By Mark Steinberg. Dubyah blew it. And he blew it in the view and hearing of the entire Labor Day crowd. In a single, self-ind...


Constitutional Law


Determining Acceptable Behavior

Sep. 13, 2000
By Columnist

By Jeffrey A. Goldfarb. On March 29, the U.S. Supreme Court, in City of Erie v. Paps A.M., reaffirmed its prior decision in Ba...


Government


Group Proposes Campaign Reform

Sep. 13, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Urging changes in the state's "overly complex and unduly burdensome" campaign reporting rules, a special commissi...


Public Interest


Ten Warning Signs Your Kid Has Gone Legal

Sep. 13, 2000
By Columnist

A telltale sign that a child is destined for law is billing both mom and dad for the weekly allowance. By The Rodent. ...


Litigation


Fans and Foes Of Measure F Battle in Court

Sep. 13, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Should Orange County voters decide if the county gets a new airport, jail or landfill? Or should the Board of Supervisors have...


Government


Ex-D.A. Reiner Endorses Cooley in Current Race

Sep. 13, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Former District Attorney Ira Reiner, who conceded the election to District Attorney Gil Garcetti in 1992, has given his endors...


Government


Chemerinsky: Change LAPD Culture

Sep. 13, 2000
By Staff Writers

The authors of a report that criticizes the Los Angeles Police Department for fostering lawlessness among its officers, protec...


Criminal


Agent Pleads Guilty In Smuggling Ring

Sep. 13, 2000
By David Houston

A U.S. Customs agent and his brother have pleaded guilty to federal charges for smuggling 15,000 counterfeit Microsoft softwar...


Criminal


Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime

Sep. 13, 2000
By David Houston

A North Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor federal hate crime charge for spray painting swastikas and other whit...


Litigation


Ex-UCI Police Employee Sues Over Layoff

Sep. 13, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A former computer systems manager at the University of California, Irvine, police department has filed suit, alleg...


Technology & Science


Remember the V-chip? I thought not. For those who are drawing a big, fat blank, the V-chip is a microchip that is required by ...