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Criminal


Judge Unseals Guilty Plea by O.C. Prosecutor

Aug. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - While on the job, a former Orange County prosecutor continued his relationship with a known drug dealer even after...


Constitutional Law


Justice or Judiciousness

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By Radhika Rao. In Stenberg v. Carhart, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a Nebraska statute making performance of a ...


Litigation


County Wins Suit Against Vengeful Neighbor

Aug. 29, 2000
By Matthew Heller

SANTA BARBARA - A jury has found a local property owner liable for setting one of Santa Barbara's worst wildfires as an act of...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Asks for ABA Discipline Review

Aug. 29, 2000
By Don Debenedictisn

SAN FRANCISCO - Under legislative command to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its attorney discipline system, the S...


Litigation


Court Rules in Favor Of Comic Book Series

Aug. 29, 2000
By Daniel Evans

It may not be nice to imply that someone is the bastard child of a murderous worm with a hankering for sex with dead pigs, but...


Law Practice


San Francisco's Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz, a 16-attorney labor and employment law boutique founded in 1982,...


Judges and Judiciary


Despite the fact that defense counsel was excluded from a key trial hearing, the California Supreme Court upheld the death sen...


Intellectual Property


Split the Art

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By John M. Genga. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently held that the Copyright Act does not pre-empt state commu...


O'Melveny & Myers managing partner Douglas Kranwinkle surprised both his current and future employers with the career move...


Firm Watch


PALO ALTO FIRM RECRUITS ASSOCIATE FROM DELAWARE

Aug. 29, 2000
By Staff Reports

Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser recently recruited Alisha K. Hiner as an associate to its corporate practice...


Criminal


DMV Hearings Circumvent the Constitution

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By Edwin B. Stegman. Department of Motor Vehicles' driving-under-the-influence license-suspension hearings are a travesty of j...


Law Practice


Number of Women Rises at Boalt Hall

Aug. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

The University of California, Boalt Hall, on Friday released its statistics for the fall 2000 first-year class.


Constitutional Law


Insatiable Federal Appetite

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By John C. Eastman. Our nation's founders feared that the consolidation of power in a central government would be dangerous to...


Product Liability


Accident Victim Gets $21 Million

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. On Aug. 17, the...


Criminal


S.D. Jury Finds Genzler Guilty

Aug. 28, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- David James Genzler walked from the courtroom Friday guilty of involuntary manslaughter but free and likely to re...


Criminal


Judge Tosses Man's 'Peeping Tom' Charges

Aug. 28, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has dismissed "peeping tom" charges against a man - even though he was caught allegedly vid...


Securities


Ex-Kings Owner to Turn Over $750,000

Aug. 28, 2000
By David Houston

An injunction has been entered against former Los Angeles Kings owner Jeffrey P. Sudikoff and two other men accused of lying i...


Law Practice


Attorney Steven H. Spindel, 50, Dies of Cancer

Aug. 28, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Services took place Friday for attorney Steven H. Spindel, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Goldschmid, Silver & Spin...


Government


Mom Sues County Over Son's Death

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The mother of a man shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after an early morning car chase last year claims in a wrong...


Family


Recall Sponsors Target Marin Judges

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...


Education


Loyola Names David Burcham 15th Dean of the Law School

Aug. 28, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...


Entertainment & Sports


Munger Tolles Beats Jones Day to Capture Landau Cup

Aug. 28, 2000
By Contributing Writer

It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...


Family


Family Law Courtroom Venom Rises Rapidly

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Reviewing Attorney Discipline System

Aug. 28, 2000
By Don Debenedictisn

SAN FRANCISCO - Conscious of the widespread feeling that the attorney discipline system is too harsh on minor offenses, the St...


Labor/Employment


Hearing Exposes Plight of Women in L.A.

Aug. 28, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Conditions for women in Los Angeles haven't changed much in the past 29 years. When Connie McFall, executive director of Rainb...


Litigation


Two defendants in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a permanently brain-damaged foster child are opposing an $800,000 settlement ...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawyers Behaving Badly: Beware Consequences

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - A controversial racial-profiling bill apparently has died in the state Legislature after its author pulled it Thu...


Criminal


In Retrospect

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By Alex Ricciarduilli. A remarkable change might occur soon in California law concerning probation and parole searches. The Ca...


Law Practice


Generation Gap

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By George W. Brewster Jr. I just zipped through my 42nd birthday, putting me solidly in what I have heard described as a lawye...