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Criminal


A search warrant in a 1999 cocaine possession case signed by Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is raising questions from ...


Transportation


Smoking on Planes Is Actionable

Apr. 8, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that flight attendants may sue over Northwest Airlines' policy of allow...


Labor/Employment


Union Sues to Halt Unification Changes

Apr. 8, 2000
By Denise Levin

Vivian Yoshioka, a court clerk in the Los Angeles Superior Court's East District, said she just wants to do the best job she ...


Contracts


$1 Rights Contract Baffles Woman

Apr. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Irene Gut Opdyke, a woman who sheltered a dozen Jews in the basement of a Nazi officer's home during the Holocaust...


Law Practice


The Real Reason Partners Change Firms

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA When partners change firms, everyone assumes it's because of money. Page 8. By Sandford A. Lechtick Many firms currently...


Labor/Employment


Commission Upholds Cervantes Firing

Apr. 7, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The Civil Service Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to affirm the termination of district attorney's investig...


Personal Injury & Torts


Litigious Lawbreakers

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

^^Real Property^^ Litigious Lawbreakers Statute Does Not Protect Felons Injured by Intentional Acts By Michael Paul Thomas A p...


Juvenile


Throwaway Kids

Apr. 7, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

When you ask people why the Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls have inadequate mental health services for children, the...


Construction


Defect Damages

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Defect Damages Economic Loss Rule Does Not Bar Recovery of Home Injury By W. Scott Shepard In a recent ruling from the 4th Dis...


Judges and Judiciary


Burden of Justice

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA The financial burden of supporting the jury system is the hidden tax imposed upon the business community by the courts. ...


Criminal


Lethal Law

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Marjorie Cohn "The deliberate institutionalized taking of human life by the state is the greatest conceivable degradation t...


Juvenile


Mentally Disturbed Kids Warehoused

Apr. 7, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

What to do with mentally ill children incarcerated in juvenile halls has become an issue of serious concern for many lawmakers...


Criminal


No Appearance of Unfairness, Says Judge

Apr. 7, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- The retrial of David James Genzler in the 1996 slaying of Dustin Harless has been scheduled for May 22, after mon...


Bankruptcy


Trustee Probes Irvine Firm for Missing Millions

Apr. 7, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

A bankruptcy trustee's attorneys continue to search for an estimated $35 million that investors pumped into an Irvine company ...


Entertainment & Sports


Hollywood beware, those naive-looking suckers from out-of-town are smarter and tougher than you ever thought. Sure, Sunset Str...


Juvenile


Because the juvenile justice system has few resources for children with mental health and substance abuse problems, the county...


Large Firms


For the first time in its century-old history, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has elected a Southern California p...


Law Practice


Services will be held today for Earl L. Hanson, a prominent criminal defense attorney whose high-profile client list included...


State Bar & Bar Associations


25th Bar President Takes Over Friday Night

Apr. 7, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The year 2000 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. It is, attorney Frank W. Chen said, "considered to be a very ...


Government


Grand Jury Indicts Two for Frame-Up

Apr. 7, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Highlighting police wrongdoing outside the city's Rampart Division, a federal grand jury Wednesday indicted one present and on...


Government


The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday evening caught a respite on the Westside from some of the sharp rebukes ...


Large Firms


The entire patent prosecution and litigation group of Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb - four partners, six associates and 15 staf...


Criminal


By Pablo Agrio By now, everyone is aware that Gov. Gray Davis has decided that all life prisoners in state correctional instit...


Criminal


Coffin Named To State Public Defender Post

Apr. 6, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday named San Francisco attorney Lynne S. Coffin as the new state public defender, a choic...


Media


Panel to Discuss Minority Images in Media

Apr. 6, 2000
By Pat Alston

Several entertainment industry insiders and civil rights advocates will participate in a panel discussion on minority images i...


Law Practice


Client Sues Attorney Over Breast-Implant Case

Apr. 6, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles woman has sued a prominent lawyer in the field of breast-implant litigation, saying he convinced...


Juvenile


Forgotten Teens

Apr. 6, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

In 350 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote that all humans by nature desire to understand things outside themselves. F...


Law Practice


Octogenarian Is Still Going Strong

Apr. 6, 2000
By Martin Kruming

SAN DIEGO - Although Sterling Hutcheson no longer enters the courtroom, the 80-year-old litigator, considered to be the dean o...


Government


The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday postponed an anticipated vote on a $9.2 million staff expansion propo...


Criminal


High Court Looks Ready to Ban Lots of Guns

Apr. 6, 2000
By David Kravets

Before a packed courtroom, the state Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to uphold the nation's first law banning dozens o...