Judges and Judiciary
Judge Mounts Campaign to Pay Legal Bills for Justice Kline
By Jean Guccione
A retired Los Angeles trial judge is leading a statewide campaign to raise $30,000 from sitting and retired judges to help Ap...
Civil Rights
Accused Killer's Confession To Reporter Is Sought By Defense
By Martin Bergn
Defense lawyers for three alleged white supremacists charged with murder want a reporter to testify about a purported confess...
WASHINGTON - As it opens its 1999-2000 term today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases that will have a major ...
^^U.S. SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS^^ The justices this week will hear these cases: TODAY HABEAS CORPUS: Must a federal habeas peti...
By John D. Frager Commercial real estate brokers have a history of operating individually and independently. Obviously, many ...
Calvin R. Abe sees his role as a landscape architect as changing the way people perceive public landscapes. "It's about creat...
Sacramento - News from a major Southern California retail developer and a large Southern department store has further lifted ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY 30495-30497 CANWOOD AVE., AGOURA HILLS Sq.Ft.: 2,500, OFFICE SPACE Tenant: KRISLIN CO. Tenant's Broker: ST...
Campbell Upgrade to first class The trend to smaller and more intimate hotels for business travelers has hit Silicon Valley. ...
Three office buildings, located at 10796 Rancho Bernardo Road, above, and 10805 and 10815 Rancho Bernardo Road in Rancho Bern...
Built entirely of bricks made by Ah Louis, leader of the Chinese settlement in San Luis Obispo, the Ah Louis Store served as ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY 325 S. ALMANSOR ST., ALHAMBRA Sq.Ft.: 42-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX Buyer: 325 S. ALMANSOR LLC. Buyer's Broker...
By John McCloud When you're looking for a mortgage for a $300,000 home, you have a wide choice of lenders to choose from. But...
Real Estate/Development
California's 30 largest construction loans in August
By Ron Mc Nees
FOOTHILL CAPITAL TRUSTEE $265,000,000 3004038001 PRESLEY HOMES 17130 DALLAS PKY, 200, DALLAS, TX 75248 1486407 BANK BOSTON NA...
Real Estate/Development
High-tech work environments at very reasonable costs
By Ron Mc Nees
In the Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey(r) Santa Clara earned the Very Low Cost $ Rating (highest is $$$$) and San Jose ...
Sacramento Hotel improvement district? Business Improvement Districts have become a common form of raising money for projects...
Announcements received in the past month of development projects getting under way, listed by square footage. FIRM PROJECT SQ...
Real Estate/Development
Tightening suburban office markets would help downtown
By Julie Nakashima
By Julie Nakashima Not to sound like a broken record, but there's a ton of empty office space in downtown Los Angeles that do...
Chino Plastics is the word in Chino Like the helpful codger tells young Ben in "The Graduate," the future is plastics. The fu...
David Stairs was named general manager for the Los Angeles Region of WinStar for Buildings, a bandwidth installer for the com...
ALAMEDA COUNTY 3998 CASTRO VALLEY BLVD., CASTRO VALLEY Sq.Ft.: 35-SPACE MOBILEHOME PARK Buyer: UNDISCLOSED Seller: UNDISCLOSE...
Palo Alto - Essex Property Trust Inc.'s September sale of $55 million in 9.25 percent Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferre...
Boston Properties' second San Francisco Bay Area purchase was considerably cheaper than its first though it also involved mul...
By Julie Nakashima Interest rates are likely to continue rising, but the consensus is that the impact on the housing market w...
Real Estate/Development
Equity security holders cannot contribute new value in bankruptcy plan
By Ron Mc Nees
The U.S. Supreme Court held that prepetition equity holders may not, over the objection of senior impaired creditors, make a ...
^^Tort Law^^ Crash Test Uninsured Motorists Can Recover Noneconomic Damages in Product-Liability Suits The manner in which th...
By Jane Bowar Zastrow The job description, if there had been one, would have read: high-profile insurance company seeks highl...
ALAMEDA COUNTY BERKELEY CENTER BUILDING, BERKELEY Sq.Ft.: 2,600, OFFICE SPACE Tenant: KINKO'S COPIES Tenant's Broker: ALLISON...
Anaheim - H. Hendy Associates, an Irvine-based commercial interior firm, designed a "global showcase" for Targus Corp.'s new ...
Santa Cruz - Finishing a project in phases usually entails completing different structures or groups of structures at differe...