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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...


State Bar & Bar Associations


TEARS AND LAUGHTER: Last Friday afternoon, there were some tears and funny tales, but most of all there were memories of endea...


Civil Rights


Liberty Cleaner

Apr. 6, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM A subpoena comes to a newspaper like a rock through the front window. Page 6. By Tim Crews A subpoena comes to a newspap...


Law Practice


Corporate technology attorney Donald E. Karl has joined Seattle-based Perkins Coie as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles Inte...


Technology & Science


Juvenile Hall Probe Met With Roadblocks

Apr. 6, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

It was a visit that almost didn't happen. When a Daily Journal reporter asked the county probation department for permission t...


Criminal


Ex-Federal Officer Arrested on Sex Charges

Apr. 6, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A former communications officer for presidents Bush and Clinton is being held on charges that he attempted to have...


Litigation


Judge Patrick B. Murphy Returns to the Bench

Apr. 6, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who has been on sick leave from his seat in Citrus Court for much of the p...


Government


Suit Claims Irvine Registration Drive in Support of Measure F

Apr. 6, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

IRVINE - An attorney and Irvine resident has filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the city and its governing body, claiming a vote...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - A decade after attorneys lost the right to question prospective jurors in California criminal courts, the Legisla...


Criminal


Jury Deadlocks on Dogs Death

Apr. 6, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday when a jury deadlocked after six hours of deliberation in the case of a San Di...


Judges and Judiciary


Task Force Surveys Courthouses

Apr. 5, 2000
By Jean Guccione

Appellate Justice Daniel J. Kremer walked with a group of visitors through the hallways of the Simi Valley courthouse in outl...


Criminal


Conning the Cons

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA When it isn't some poor soul conned out of his or her savings but instead a criminal geting conned, the result is sweet...


Litigation


Studio Hit With $11M by Production Co.

Apr. 5, 2000
By Denise Levin

A movie studio is responsible for the negligent acts committed by an independent contractor producer who works out of its fac...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Feasible Fees?

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

Feasible Fees? Court Strikes Blow to Section 317 Strategy Whether Section 317 justifies an award of attorney fees to a defend...


Criminal


Lawyer Will Stand Trial for Murder of Client

Apr. 5, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Carlsbad real estate lawyer who became infatuated with a client and wanted to marry her will stand trial July 1...


Law Practice


Intellectual property attorney Bruce D. Kuyper joins Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins as a partner, effective today . Kuyper...


Intellectual Property


DICTA 'Rembrants in the Attic' is a book about valuing, building and protecting business investments by effectively using pat...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge May Call Prosecutors Policy Asinine

Apr. 5, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Although a federal judge in Los Angeles berated prosecutors as "asinine" for failing to add a weapons charge ...


Criminal


Court to Rehear Bishops Remaining Convictions

Apr. 5, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa Supervisor Gayle Bishop, who succeeded in getting two of four perjury convictions tossed ...


Litigation


Farmers Co. Affiliate to Pay $30M Plus $94

Apr. 5, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - When it came to awarding punitive damages, an Orange County Superior Court decided to send Los Angeles-based insu...


Intellectual Property


Zombie Computer

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Recent hacker attacks may have given rise to a new form of legal liability. Page 6. By Peter Whalen and Nicole Goodwin ...


Appellate Practice


Court to Decide Limits on LSC Lawyers

Apr. 5, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether barring lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp. from c...


Government


Cost of Plans First Year: $9.2M+

Apr. 5, 2000
By Chris Ford

A proposal by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to prevent Rampart-style corruption by increasing the rati...


After 21/2 years of dreadful peril at the hands of a multinational entertainment behemoth and an aging, eccentric Irish film ...


Appellate Practice


SACRAMENTO - Dealing a blow to doctors, a fractured California Supreme Court ruled Monday that revocation of medical licenses...