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Judges and Judiciary

WASHINGTON - In one of its final acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed Los Angeles U.S. Att...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Woman Claims Lawyer Abandoned Her in Court

Oct. 23, 1998
By Denise Levin

Her attorney's failure to appear twice for a family law trial and comply with discovery motions caused a woman to lose $4,050 ...



Litigation

Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...


Criminal

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...



Intellectual Property

By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...


Juvenile

New Law Impedes Plans to Help Wards of Court

Oct. 22, 1998
By Cheryl Romo

A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...



Criminal

Group Seeks to Bolster Counterfeit Laws

Oct. 22, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...


Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...



Juvenile

Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...


Communications

SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...



Litigation

Co-Workers Get Protection for Insulting Others

Oct. 22, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...


Personal Injury & Torts

Court Steers a New Course in Rescue Lawsuit

Oct. 17, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...



Judges and Judiciary

Legal Community Roasts Judge Chavez

Oct. 17, 1998
By Wirein

One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...


Criminal

Bail Bondsman Of the Future Is Unplugged

Oct. 17, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...



Government

Next Governor Eyes Legacy of Judicial Choices

Oct. 17, 1998
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...


Criminal

Judge: No Misconduct by DA's Office

Oct. 16, 1998
By Michael Harris

Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...



Judges and Judiciary

O.C. Seeks Additional Money From the State

Oct. 16, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...


Criminal

Symington Prosecutor to Move to Bay Area Office

Oct. 16, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...



Entertainment & Sports

Coliseum Claims Scam by Management Company

Oct. 16, 1998
By Denise Levin

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...


Corporate

Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...



Public Interest

The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...


Judges and Judiciary

The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...



Appellate Practice

WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...


Civil Rights

ACLU Seeks Information About Traffic Stops

Oct. 15, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...



Native Americans

Judge Orders Tribes to Shut Down Casinos

Oct. 15, 1998
By Martin Bergn

As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...


Family

Garcetti Defends Family Support Effort

Oct. 15, 1998
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...



Litigation

Hell on Wheels

Oct. 15, 1998
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...


Agriculture

The Feathers Are Flying

Oct. 15, 1998
By Mathew Heller

APPLE VALLEY - You might not think that a High Desert community with a distinctly rural atmosphere would have problems dealing...



Judges and Judiciary

DA Wants New Crackdown on Jury Scofflaws

Oct. 15, 1998
By Michael Harris

In pushing for the enactment of a one-day, one-trial jury service system in Los Angeles County under a new state law, District...


Criminal

Medical Marijuana Activist Sues Dan Lungren

Oct. 13, 1998
By Denise Levin

A medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and defendant of federal drug charges sued California Attorney General Dan Lungren...