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Criminal


Panel Prejudice

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Panel Prejudice Juror Misconduct Deprives a Defendant of Constitutional Rights Certain extraneous materials, such as dictionar...


Intellectual Property


Global Flexibility

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

THE CLOSER U.S. courts must remain user-friendly to continue as premier venues for intellectual property disputes. By William...


Criminal


Traffic-Stop Cop-Slayer Faces Death Sentence

Apr. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court jurors will begin hearing arguments next week to help them decide whether or not to s...


Judges and Judiciary


The idea that trial court unification would benefit the justice system originated in the early 20th century. Harvard Law Schoo...


Criminal


Internet Seduction Law Upheld

Apr. 4, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has for the first time upheld a California law making it a felony to send a child harmful m...


Litigation


Isuzu, Consumers Union End Defamation Trial

Apr. 4, 2000
By Martin Bergn

While lawyers for an automaking giant told jurors Friday that "truth doesn't matter" to officials at the leading product ratin...


Judges and Judiciary


Ex-Judge Sues County for $72K Legal Costs

Apr. 4, 2000
By Jean Guccione

An ex-judge is suing Ventura County to collect the $72,000 in legal costs he spent defending himself against alcohol-related d...


Litigation


U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie pounded a fatal stake through one of the movie business's longest-lived litigation monste...


Litigation


SAN JOSE - Each time the real estate agent stopped by 83-year-old Janis Jepson's house last year, her grandson said she was as...


Real Estate/Development


FEATURED LEASE -- NORTH

Apr. 2, 2000
By John Mc Cloud

Seeking to lower its rent at the BankAmerica building in Rancho Cordova, BankAmerica Corp. did what any forward-thinking comp...


Real Estate/Development


GE Capital Real Estate provided a $37.24 million bridge loan to Burlingame-based Stonesfair Financial Corp. for the acquisiti...


Real Estate/Development


San Francisco - Catellus Development Corp. is evaluating strategic alternatives for the merchant housing division of its resi...


Real Estate/Development


San Carlos - A market study released Feb. 28 by Economics Research Associates recommends this San Francisco Peninsula city gi...


Real Estate/Development


Market options

Apr. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

By John McCloud Don't think the only people with the opportunity of becoming overnight millionaires are dot-com founders and ...


Real Estate/Development


San Diego - Burnham Development Group released architectural renderings for the first new office project to be built in downt...


Real Estate/Development


Caltrans site fetches close to $50 million

Apr. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

A 3-acre, two-parcel site fronting on Main, Harrison and Folsom streets in San Francisco, owned by the State of California De...


Real Estate/Development


On-going studies

Apr. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

What new education does a broker need to have to remain successful and bring in new business in today's fast-paced, technolog...


Real Estate/Development


By John McCloud Pressure from Silicon Valley has created a tight market heading south from San Jose. Vacancies are low and de...


Real Estate/Development


Sharp new building

Apr. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

The remodeling of a four-story office building at 5001 Kearny Villa Road in Kearny Mesa, formerly occupied by General Dynamic...


Real Estate/Development


Fourth quarter 1999 new home sales in the West L.A./South Bay area of Los Angeles County fell for the second consecutive quar...


Real Estate/Development


No way, no how

Apr. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

By Jane Bowar Zastrow It's not real common, but it is more common today than it was a year ago for a broker to do all of the ...


Real Estate/Development


A Closer Look: Mike Valentine

Apr. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

Title: Founder and president Company: DMK Building Professionals Location: Tustin What is the focus of your company's busines...


Real Estate/Development


Critical look

Apr. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

By W T "Dub" Northcutt Real estate brokers owe it to themselves to learn how to look for structural deficiencies, one of the ...


Real Estate/Development


On course

Apr. 2, 2000
By Man Poon

By Elizabeth Giffin On March 7, Californians approved almost $2 billion in bond money to invest in California's aging water i...


Real Estate/Development


Coalition endorses housing bills

Apr. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

Sacramento - A coalition of business, labor and advocacy groups endorsed 10 bills to be presented to the state legislature th...


Real Estate/Development


Rock star

Apr. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

Founded in 1964, diGiacomo Inc. of Azusa specializes in the design and construction of elaborate rock formations and water fe...


Real Estate/Development


Getting along

Apr. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima Brokers and owners, owners and brokers. Like peas and carrots, they just have a certain ring. And for the ...


Real Estate/Development


South Gate - One of Southern California's largest public/private real estate transactions in the past year has been completed...


Real Estate/Development


Apprentice agent

Apr. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

By Ronald McNees "Real estate seemed to offer the most potential to make a great living, as well as manage my own destiny," s...


Real Estate/Development


Go Web, young man, go web

Apr. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima The Westside story is increasingly a Web side story, with "dot-comers" and other technology-based tenants ...