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Appellate Practice


Court Finds Lonis Nemesis Lacks Appeal

May 19, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal panel held late Monday that a woman who paired up with actress Loni Anderson to sell skin care products throug...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to the welfare-reform movement in a case from California, the Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Monday th...


Government


Budget Plan Denies Judges a Pay Increase

May 18, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The judiciary would get 12 new appeal court judges and 20 new trial court jurists, and $19.1 million to fix year...


Criminal


Appellate Judge Delays Probe Into O.C. Counseling Center

May 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A state court of appeals judge granted a partial stay Friday in the case of Center for Creative Alternatives,...


Admiralty/Maritime


Lawyer: Client Did Not Threaten Judge

May 18, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Denying federal prosecutors' allegations that he threatened the life of a federal judge, a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with ...


Criminal


DA Will Retry Couple in Childs Starving Death

May 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

Despite a jury that deadlocked overwhelmingly in favor of acquittal, prosecutors have announced they intend to retry an Antel...


Criminal


A San Bernardino County judge has refused to issue a certificate of rehabilitation for a former Los Angeles County prosecutor...


Technology & Science


SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard, which has been fighting several legal battles to maintain control of the lucrative market for the...


Law Practice


Short-Staffed

May 18, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

As lawyers' practices become more specialized, technology keeps advancing and busy firms get even busier, finding a competent...


Government


The Los Angeles City Council has settled a case for more than $163,000 in which a federal judge had awarded just $20,000 to t...


Criminal


Case Dismissed After Witness, 14, Vanishes

May 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles judge has dismissed charges that a Compton police officer had sex with an underage girl after prosecutors annou...


Judges and Judiciary


Don't Judge by the Critics

May 18, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Public criticism of judicial decisions may serve a useful purpose in our society, but it must not compromise jud...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - The explosion of securities litigation has produced a backlog of 500 federal shareholder actions since 1995, ...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Reporter Unable to Sue Over Retaliation

May 18, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel has ruled that a court reporter, accused of airing a district court's "dirty laundry"...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Affirms the Use of Stinger Letters to Judges

May 15, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a overall victory for the state's judicial watchdog agency, the state Supreme Court on Thursday held that ...


Government


Amendment Guidelines

May 15, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

The Citizens for the Constitution, a project of the New York-based Century Foundation, developed the following eight guidelin...


Government


California Senate Approves Child Support Reform

May 15, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - The Senate overwhelmingly approved a proposal to overhaul California's child support system Thursday, but Republ...


Civil Rights


Judge Rebukes Parole Board on Disability Access

May 15, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - California's parole board drew stinging criticism from a federal judge Thursday for blocking access and servi...


Workers' Comp.


State Lawyer Ousted from Case

May 15, 1999
By Martin Bergn

In a case involving allegations of retaliation against judges within the workers' compensation system, a federal judge has di...


Government


Constitutionally Speaking

May 15, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Concerned by the rising number of proposed constitutional amendments making their way through Congress in recent...


Government


Most Who Go Before Parole Board Find No Way Out

May 15, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Convicted in 1976 for his role as the getaway driver in a double murder and robbery stemming from a drug deal go...


SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed his first "Son of Sam" lawsuit, seeking to garnish any profits that migh...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


This Bud's Not For You After Court's Ruling

May 15, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

Reining in the aggressive marketing tactics of a major brewery, a California appeal panel has ruled that the brewer's agents ...


Appellate Practice


Court Accepts Race as Ground For Suspicion

May 15, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the definition of "reasonable suspicion" in investigative traffic stops, a divided federal appeals ...


Criminal


Politically Connected Offender Gets Prison

May 15, 1999
By Michael Harris

Unlike in his last case, in which he was placed on probation amid allegations Los Angeles County prosecutors had granted him ...


Media


Judges Tout Jury Duty in Public Service Spots

May 15, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

They sat in the green room, mouthing the lines of their scripts, then surrendered to the makeup artist's brushes and sponges....


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Has the state high court sent a message to the Commission on Judicial Performance about its judicial miscondu...


Government


A bill that seeks to reform state confidentiality laws to allow limited public access to the juvenile court records of dead c...


Civil Rights


Homeless Can Raise Necessity Defense

May 14, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Orange County prosecutors to wipe out a lower cou...


Government


Disabled Win Upgrade of Emergency Call Boxes

May 14, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles County will spend about $11.5 million to upgrade the freeway emergency call box system under terms of a settlemen...