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Intellectual Property

On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...


Family

Growing Pains

Apr. 17, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...



Environmental

SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...


Government

INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...



Government

Term-Limit Act To Be Weighed By High Court

Apr. 16, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...


Insurance

Prosecutor Wants Lawyer's Conviction Aired

Apr. 16, 1999
By Michael Harris

In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...



Government

City Must Answer on Overtime Pay

Apr. 16, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...


Law Practice

Foundation Helps Students Overcome Hurdles

Apr. 16, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...



Personal Injury & Torts

Tort Reformers Will Go by a New Moniker

Apr. 16, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...


Law Practice

'Formidable Opponent'

Apr. 16, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...



Criminal

The Age of Innocence

Apr. 16, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...


Judges and Judiciary

Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...



Government

Starr: Act Is Constitutionally Dubious

Apr. 16, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...


Judges and Judiciary

Claims Against Kline 'Unsound,' Judges Contend

Apr. 15, 1999
By Jean Guccione

Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...



Insurance

Lawyers Balk At Move to Sacramento

Apr. 15, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...


Criminal

Operation Casablanca Trial Opens in L.A.

Apr. 15, 1999
By Martin Bergn

After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...



Judges and Judiciary

SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...


Government

Ex-Menendez Prosecutor Sues DA for Overtime

Apr. 15, 1999
By Michael Harris

Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...



Criminal

SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

A legal malpractice lawsuit between attorneys who are active in the Orthodox Jewish community has pitted religious law agains...



Law Practice

If Roman M. Silberfeld were to list his victories during 25 years of practicing law, his resume of mass tort and personal inj...


Intellectual Property

Battle Over Growth Hormone Begins

Apr. 15, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the long-delayed Genentech patent infringement trial opened...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Milberg Weiss Pays $50M to Settle Lawsuit

Apr. 15, 1999
By Tom Orewyler

A day after being tagged with a $45 million verdict for allegedly trying to destroy the reputation of a high-profile law and ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Lawsuit Questions Neutrality of Arbitrator

Apr. 14, 1999
By Denise Levin

A law firm has been sued for allegedly failing to tell its client, a jewelry company, that the neutral arbitrator presiding o...



Judges and Judiciary

Authorities Request Help in Jurists Shooting

Apr. 14, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Monday they are seeking further information about a vehicle a...


Zoning, Planning and Use

Judge Grants Retrial in Rent Control Case

Apr. 14, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - Landlord attorneys who thought they'd scored a landmark victory when a jury ruled against the tenants in an E...



Environmental

Fish Wins One in Battle for Survival

Apr. 14, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A little fish that could be the subject of a big legal dispute has won a round with a federal judge's ruling that authorities...


Personal Injury & Torts

Burned Tenant Wins $6.7 Million Jury Verdict

Apr. 14, 1999
By Denise Levin

A man who suffers from bipolar disorder was awarded $6.7 million Monday by a jury who found his landlords responsible for the...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Attorney Steven L. Mazza, who recently avoided a trial on criminal charges, has been sued in an unrelated matter for allegedl...


Criminal

DNA Evidence Leads to Plea 22 Years Later

Apr. 14, 1999
By Michael Harris

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles County prosecutors saw a murder case against a young man named Harry Rowley dismissed for lack ...