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Labor/Employment


Deloitte & Touche Faces Discrimination Lawsuit

Jul. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A 52-year-old man who claims he was hired in February 1997 by accounting-house giant Deloitte & Touche and was the only Af...


Litigation


Arbitrator Resigns, Citing 'Sandbagging'

Jul. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Stung by publicity surrounding his role as an arbitrator, retired Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian on Thursday resigned fr...


Litigation


Thirty Hollywood families who allegedly endured raw sewage, collapsed ceilings and a lack of running water in their apartments...


Judges and Judiciary


A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arch Rollin Tuthill. The judge died S...


Labor/Employment


Insulating Employers

Jul. 8, 2000
By Columnist

Defense counsel in harassment cases should attack a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress on the basis that t...


Government


Group Wants Exonerated Cops' Names Released

Jul. 8, 2000
By Michael Harris

The Los Angeles Police Protective League on Thursday called on the district attorney's office to release the names of the thre...


Criminal


Former Prosecutor Makes Comeback With Defense

Jul. 8, 2000
By Contributing Writer

As a Sacramento County prosecutor, Pete Harned had it all - but lost it when he was arrested July 19, 1996, on suspicion of po...


Judges and Judiciary


Calling him a "legal bully" and "the quintessential professional litigant," defendants in a real estate disclosure action move...


Government


In a decision sure to escalate the debate over handling of protests at the Democratic National Convention, the Los Angeles Boa...


SAN FRANCISCO - Overturning its own precedent, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday that a deadbeat parent cannot use bank...


Immigration


Attorney Witnesses a Peaceful Revolution

Jul. 8, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Had the left-wing PRD, or Democratic Revolution Party, won, Jose Jacques Medina might have been on his way to Mexico City to c...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN JOSE - Socrates Peter Manoukian prides himself on being the Santa Clara Superior Court system's utility player, the kind ...


Litigation


Brain Builders

Jul. 8, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioners and parties know that employment mediations can be challenging on a psychological level. The parties' emotions r...


Law Practice


Exceed All Expectations

Jul. 8, 2000
By Columnist

With more lawyers than ever battling each other for business, just doing a good job is no longer good enough. ...


Product Liability


Collision Course

Jul. 7, 2000
By Columnist

This case will curtail other design-defect claims premised on the theory that auto manufacturers had a duty to install airbags.


Technology & Science


Not the Holy Grail of

Jul. 7, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM The announcement of a rough draft of the human genome could be a moment for celebrating our common humanity. ...


Real Estate/Development


Avoid or Insure

Jul. 7, 2000
By Columnist

^^Real Property^^ Avoid or Insure Risk Management Is Essential for Developers By Jeffrey D. Masters The real estate industry ...


Criminal


Panel Rejects Defense Challenges to Indictments

Jul. 7, 2000
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE -Prosecutors in the Avant criminal trade secrets case got a glimmer of hope last week when a 6th District Court of A...


Judges and Judiciary


Sights on Settling

Jul. 7, 2000
By Columnist

^^Bench Press^^ By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. [mug] Herb Barish, president of Los Angeles County Bar Association's Trial Practice...


Public Interest


By Russ Nichols Ralph Nader, recently nominated as the Green Party's presidential candidate, and Pat Buchanan, who is seeking...


Real Estate/Development


Pipe Dream

Jul. 7, 2000
By Columnist

^^Real Property^^ Pipe Dream Corroded Water Pipes Yield Takings Liability The city's defense would have required a fundamenta...


Government


A meeting of a Los Angeles City Council subcommittee handling issues related to the upcoming Democratic National Convention c...


Insurance


Kelso Named Acting Insurance Head

Jul. 7, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

Sacramento law Prof. J. Clark Kelso was named Wednesday as the acting head of the state Insurance Department by departing Com...


Criminal


Poor Ramon. Someone stole his brand new Pinto - not the kind that eats hay and lives in a barn, but a Ford Pinto. He'd only ha...


SAN JOSE - Nothing is extraordinary about the Santa Clara County civil grand jury's annual report - except that it exists at ...


Saying the case before it opened a Pandora's box of deceit and "bureaucratic disobedience" on the part of the Santa Ana Polic...


Government


Board OKs Bacas Review Plan

Jul. 7, 2000
By Chris Ford

In contrast to the Los Angeles Police Department's reputed circle-the-wagons approach to outside scrutiny, Los Angeles County...


Criminal


Conviction Thrown Out Over Jury-Pool Ouster

Jul. 7, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 1996 robbery conviction of a Los Angeles man Wednesday, ruling a state-level pr...


Government


Los Angeles County on Wednesday not only moved another step closer to expanding the five-member Board of Supervisors to nine m...


From the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge who helped write Arkansas' ethics laws stepped aside from hearing Presi...