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Criminal


Candidates Debate

Apr. 28, 2000
By Michael Harris

The Rampart corruption scandal took center stage Tuesday evening at the first face-to-face debate between Los Angeles District...


Criminal


Appeal Court Holds DA to Promise on Plea Deal

Apr. 28, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who promised to dismiss a case pending results of a lie detector test cannot go back on his word ...


Government


Tempers flared Tuesday evening at the seventh and last scheduled meeting between the public and the Los Angeles Board of Polic...


Litigation


L.A. Council to Consider 'Panther' Settlement

Apr. 28, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Stuart Hanlon, who has been working on the Geronimo Pratt case since he was a law student more than 20 years ago, described th...


Criminal


Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Wednesday he expects his office to file only a "small handful" of motions to o...


Civil Rights


Justices Lean Toward Allowing Gay Ban

Apr. 28, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Almost all of the Supreme Court justices expressed serious concern Wednesday about requiring the Boy Scouts to ac...


Criminal


The Rampart-related, class-action civil rights lawsuit filed last week by a gutsy, self-promoting and controversial civil righ...


Public Interest


The Legal Services Program for Pasadena-Pomona-San Gabriel Valley has announced it will file a lawsuit against the Legal Servi...


Civil Rights


Convicted Felon Seeks To Turn Federal Ruling

Apr. 28, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Although his federal public defender insisted in 1997 that Jorge Sisco-Aguilar was being framed by two lying Rampart CRASH ant...


Judges and Judiciary


A fight that two criminal defense attorneys are waging over the racial and ethnic makeup of the Los Angeles County grand jury ...


Government


An attempt to amend a request by the Los Angeles City Council that a panel investigating Rampart police corruption increase it...


Government


The Los Angeles city attorney's office is claiming that a vast majority of the 28 lawsuits filed against the city alleging civ...


Litigation


Judge Deems Irvine Council's Voter Drive Unlawful

Apr. 27, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit alleging that the city of Irvine acted unlawfully by funding a ...


Law Practice


Former Journal Editor Kenyon Roberts Dies

Apr. 27, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

A former Daily Journal editor and attorney, Kenyon Roberts, has died. Roberts died last Thursday at the Chandler Convalescent ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Business Judgment

Apr. 27, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Alternate Dispute Resolution By Alexander S. Polsky All attorneys have been there - the painful moment when dis...


Criminal


Youth Hostile

Apr. 27, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

A recently released study titled "The Color of Justice" by a national coalition of legal groups called Building Blocks for You...


Law Practice


Attorney Listed as 'Reptile' Sues Phone Company

Apr. 27, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

FULLERTON - Linda K. Ross, a Fullerton family law attorney, never expected to achieve national prominence in the way she did l...


Government


Going Back to School

Apr. 27, 2000
By Martin Kruming

San Diego Watch Superior Court Judge Ernest Borunda will retire from the bench in June to become dean of the National Judicia...


Civil Rights


Forum: Attorney Action By Elaine Michetti No political parties. No elections. No independent judiciary or legislature. No bar...


Criminal


Justice Denied

Apr. 27, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Steven L. Harmon On March 17, the Riverside Criminal Courts Bar Association Board of Directors voted unanimously to...


Criminal


No New Trial For Canine's Death in Car

Apr. 27, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - After one emotional trial that ended with a hung jury, the first police canine handler in the nation known to have...


Government


Attorneys Blast Charges Against Officers

Apr. 27, 2000
By Michael Harris

Defense attorneys for the first three Los Angeles police officers charged in the city's worst police corruption scandal blaste...


Judges and Judiciary


Napa County Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni, founder of book and music clubs for kids on probation, has been selected as...


Personal Injury & Torts


Family Wins $8M in UCLA Death

Apr. 27, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Tuesday found that several staff members of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute committed medi...


Litigation


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to strike down a Nebraska statute, similar to those in 29 other state...


Appellate Practice


SACRAMENTO - Heavily opposed by the legal establishment, a proposal to allow all state appellate court opinions to be cited as...


Immigration


Citizenship Bid Threatened by Disability

Apr. 27, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

The parents of a 24-year-old East Indian woman want her to become a U.S. citizen like themselves and their older daughter. But...


Large Firms


Legendary Los Angeles lawyer Frank Rothman, an upholsterer's son who became a Hollywood mogul, a dealmaker and courtroom strat...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - The state's most powerful lawmaker angrily warned California's district attorneys Tuesday that they will pay dear...


Government


Officers Face Difficult Choice Over Testifying

Apr. 27, 2000
By Michael Harris

Behind the closed doors of the grand jury investigating the Rampart corruption scandal, an impasse has developed between some ...