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Litigation


Settlement Reached Over Twin Towers' Defects

Aug. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

The St. Louis architectural firm that designed Los Angeles County's Twin Towers Correctional Facility could pay $10.6 million ...


Government


City Attorney Seeks Set-Aside of Verdict

Aug. 25, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The Los Angeles city attorney will ask Judge Malcolm Mackey to set aside Wednesday's $1.5 million verdict awarded to Raymond W...


Criminal


Misconduct Spurs Manslaughter Plea

Aug. 25, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Saying that they accepted responsibility for taking part in a gang summit they knew could lead to violence, four m...


Criminal


Nash's Next Big Show Awaits Date

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

Attention prosecutors on the Organized Crime Strike Force in the U.S. attorney's office: Eddie Nash has been known to use some...


Litigation


Injuries in Accident Win Teacher $2.8 Million

Aug. 25, 2000
By Tamara Scott

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $2.8 million to a 48-year-old school teacher who suffered serious head and neck ...


Litigation


A man who claims that disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez and two other Rampart cops burst into his home ...


Government


Poll Shows Cooley Leading Garcetti for DA

Aug. 25, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The latest sampling of voters on the question of who should be Los Angeles County's district attorney - two-term incumbent Gil...


Litigation


Family Settles Lawsuit Against McDonald's

Aug. 25, 2000
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Twelve members of a Los Angeles family who claimed to have been turned away from a McDonald's restaurant beca...


Litigation


Group Sues to Stop Reopening Of Oil Refinery

Aug. 25, 2000
By David Houston

An environmental watchdog group on Thursday sued to block televangelist Pat Robertson's charitable trust from reopening a Sant...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of working on various proposals to reform the appellate process, a specially appointed task ...


Litigation


Former Partners Battle Over Attorney Fees

Aug. 25, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The attorney who won a $35 million jury verdict for a musician severely brain-damaged when defective custom van seats snapped ...


Immigration


SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that "sexual identity is inherent to one's very identity as a person," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...


Government


Council Seeks $11 Million for New Court Workers

Aug. 25, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Responding to judges' complaints that counties are increasingly abandoning basic maintenance and oversight of ...


Government


Officers Hit LAPD With A $100 Million Lawsuit

Aug. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

Several dozen current and former Los Angeles Police Department officers Thursday filed a $100 million whistle-blower lawsuit a...


Criminal


Police Discipline

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

Recent news stories on the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart scandal have repeatedly referred to them. No sworn, tenured m...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Not for the Taking

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By Anthony Saul Alperin. In Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 216 F.3d 764 (9th Cir. 2...


Public Interest


Body Language

Aug. 25, 2000
By Columnist

By Charen Levitan. Appropriate hand gestures and positive body language can influence the impression you make on jurors and cl...


Criminal


Two Police Bills Head to the Governor

Aug. 25, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Two bills introduced in response to the Rampart scandal have cleared the state Assembly unopposed and are on thei...


Family


Custody Battle Chattel

Aug. 24, 2000
By Columnist

By Fred Silberberg. There is a serious flaw in our legal system when it comes to addressing custody cases. The existence of pr...


Litigation


Court Upholds Forced Testimony of Donor

Aug. 24, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The court can force an anonymous sperm donor to testify in a lawsuit brought by the family of an 11-year-old girl who claims t...


Government


ASPEN, Colo. - The rule of law is both a vital catalyst for, and a check on, globalization, participants concluded in a four-d...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Upholds Award to Former Judges

Aug. 24, 2000
By Daniel Evans

After nearly four years in litigation, an unusual workplace retaliation case pitting two former workers' compensation judges a...


Litigation


Lawyers Rework Vexatious Claim

Aug. 24, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Attorneys seeking to have attorney Robert W. Hirsh declared a vexatious litigant have lost round one of their battle but say t...


Bankruptcy


Edwards Theatres Files 59 Bankruptcy Petitions

Aug. 24, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Financially strapped Edwards Theatres Circuit Inc. didn't file just one Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition Wednesday. ...


Insurance


Committee Unanimously Recommends Low

Aug. 24, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Retired Justice Harry Low breezed through his first confirmation hearing Tuesday as state insurance commissioner,...


Intellectual Property


ASPEN, Colo. - Companies that do business on the Internet had better find ways to regulate their activities - or the governmen...


Government


Corona Attorney Seeks Closure To Decade-Old Rape Allegation

Aug. 24, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - It's been almost a decade since Karen Novorr, a former San Clemente police officer, was allegedly raped by a fello...


Education


S.F. Schools Challenge Examination

Aug. 24, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

For millions of public school students and teachers, one of the most stressful times comes not in September, with the opening ...


Juvenile


Legislative Negotiations Avert Crisis

Aug. 24, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - A bill that provides an unprecedented amount of money for juvenile crime prevention is just one result of negotia...


Litigation


Chevron Will Pay $7M to Settle Case

Aug. 24, 2000
By David Houston

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. has agreed to pay a record $7 million to settle claims it violated the Clean Air Act at its offshore loadi...