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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Is the Bar Small-Minded?

Jun. 2, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Scan any of the regular listings of lawyers who have been disciplined by the State Bar Court or the state Supreme Court. Look...


Government


The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to prohibit the city attorney's office from settling any lawsuit exceedi...


Appellate Practice


In-House Lawyers Win Prevailing Market Rates

Jun. 2, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

In the wake of a state appellate ruling that corporate counsel are entitled to collect "big-firm" attorney fees under Civil C...


Criminal


Attempted Murder Defendant Sues Victim

Jun. 2, 1999
By Tamara Koehler

VENTURA - A Ventura man charged with the attempted murder of his former girlfriend is suing the victim, claiming he suffered ...


Constitutional Law


San Franciscos Domestic Partner Law Is Upheld

May 29, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's pioneering domestic partners' ordinance survived constitutional attack Thursday in a federal ...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph J. Geffen died Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital after a two-month battle wit...


Personal Injury & Torts


Kevorkian Attorney Files Columbine Lawsuit

May 29, 1999
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits related to last month's tragic shooting at Columbine High School w...


Law Practice


Defense: Ex-Prosecutor Faced Catch-22

May 29, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside County prosecutor Patrick Dutton was denied a promotion and then terminated from his job because...


Criminal


A nonlawyer has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with assuming the identity of a practicing attorney and collec...


Personal Injury & Torts


Nonlitigants Who Spoil Evidence Cant Be Sued

May 29, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Finishing off the tort of spoliation of evidence, a narrowly divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Richards Watson Sued In Land Deal Gone Sour

May 29, 1999
By Denise Levin

An investment group claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that attorneys they hired in 1996 to sue a Rancho Cucamong...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Jesters

May 29, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices have seemed more relaxed and playful during oral arguments this term. Perhaps that's ...


Judges and Judiciary


Slaphappy Juror Properly Excused, Court Decides

May 29, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

Juror No. 3 was, admittedly, a little "stressed out" when she threatened during deliberations to slap her fellow jurors "upsi...


Entertainment & Sports


Court Takes One Day to Decide Sinatra Suit

May 29, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

Ruling just one day after oral arguments in a dispute between Frank Sinatra Jr. and his one-time kidnapper, a state appeal pa...


Discipline


Couple Injured in Deadly Crash Sue Lawyer

May 28, 1999
By Denise Levin

A couple who claim their daughter was killed and they were seriously injured when the tire blew on the minivan they were ridi...


Criminal


Ruling that a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with fraud poses a flight risk, a federal judge has ordered him to remain detained...


Government


Samaritan Law Prospects Fade As Bill Stalls

May 28, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - It's a crime in California to see someone's pet get shot by a hunter and not report it to authorities. And a lic...


Criminal


From Here To Eternity

May 28, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

In the first-ever appellate examination of California's Son of Sam law, the statute prohibiting felons from selling their sto...


Insurance


SACRAMENTO - People harmed by corporate, professional and individual negligence could sue defendants' insurers if they denied...


Family


Garcetti Selects New Chief for Child Support

May 28, 1999
By Michael Harris

Culminating a five-month, nationwide search, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced Wednesday he has hir...


Appellate Practice


City Hiring Plan Unlawful Under Proposition 209

May 28, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping victory for affirmative action opponents, a state appellate court panel ruled Wednesday that city co...


Criminal


Forensic Clinic Aids Rape Investigations

May 28, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Cutting-edge technology at a new forensic clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center will greatly aid...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Court to Review Exemptions For Churches

May 28, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that will test how far government can go to accommodate religion, the California Supreme Court agre...


Workers' Comp.


Sweeping Change Is Proposed for Workers Comp

May 27, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Increased benefits for workers, new opportunities for arbitration and larger penalties for uninsured employers a...


Environmental


Ex-Prosecutor Ponders Run Against S.F. DA

May 27, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor, who resigned in anger two years ago over the settlement of San Francisco's biggest envir...


Personal Injury & Torts


Lawsuit Filed Over Officers Suicide

May 27, 1999
By Denise Levin

Apparently despondent over the end of a love affair with her supervisor, 25-year-old Los Angeles police officer Nadine Arrang...


Intellectual Property


Seeking to maximize the educational potential of the Internet, the U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday recommended that Congress...


Judges and Judiciary


Since early May, jurors have had a free ride to all courthouses in San Diego thanks to an innovative new program involving Su...


Personal Injury & Torts


A bitter civil court dispute between Oakland City Council candidate David Hilliard and another former Black Panther over righ...


Government


Policing the Jailhouse Door

May 27, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - One of Steve White's early assignments as a young Sacramento County deputy district attorney in the 1970s was to...