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Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...


Public Interest


Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...


Criminal


Perjury Charges Sought Against O.J.

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...


Litigation


A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...


Criminal


Robbery-String Defendant Enters Insanity Plea

Aug. 18, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...


Government


Yaroslavsky Seeks Ban on Gun Shows at Fairgrounds

Aug. 18, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...


Government


Woman of The Left Bank

Aug. 18, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Promotes Patience, Fairness

Aug. 18, 1999
By Rebecca Kuzins

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...


Judges and Judiciary


Prior Restraint Order Against Paper Is Lifted

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...


Criminal


Probe of Death Row Label Keeps Spinning

Aug. 18, 1999
By Garry Abrams

A 3-year-old federal grand jury criminal investigation into Death Row Records that once appeared dormant is ongoing and is ex...


Media


In what First Amendment experts are calling an unconstitutional prior restraint, the Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered t...


Litigation


Cigarette Distributors Fuming

Aug. 17, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett.

A group of discount cigarette distributors has sued the 46 states and major tobacco companies involved in a global settlement...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Strip Speech

Aug. 17, 1999
By Columnist

^^Land Use^^ Strip Speech First Amendment Rights Outweigh City's Image Concerns The court doubted the owner planned the image...


Civil Rights


^^Real Property^^ By Mitchell Poole Recent amendments to federal and state sex-offender registration laws give prospective la...


Judges and Judiciary


O.C. Court Needs More Justices, More Room

Aug. 17, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - At first glance, Orange County's Court of Appeal building in Santa Ana, with its Victorian-era architecture, mani...


Litigation


Orange County attorney Monica M. Jimenez has sued her former law partner, prominent Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Raymond ...


Immigration


SAN DIEGO - In an unusual alien-smuggling case, two Mexican citizens have been indicted on charges of illegally bringing four...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - With its reputation for peace-and-love liberalism and its history as the heart of the free speech movement, t...


Probate


Messy Probate Case Spawns a Legal Offspring

Aug. 17, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - A trustee of DHL Express founder Larry Hillblom's $500-million estate has accused Morrison & Foerster and...


Media


Court Expands Media's Right to Documents

Aug. 17, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court has ruled the news media and public have a common-law right of ac...


Intellectual Property


Mag-Lite Skins Copycats in Infringement Case

Aug. 14, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The maker of Mag-Lite flashlights has once again hammered a competitor in court and won the right to pound the competitor's f...


Intellectual Property


3Com Protects Handheld Computer Copyright

Aug. 14, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

In legal proceedings that have spanned the Pacific Ocean, 3Com Corp. has succeeded in persuading judges in Hong Kong and the ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Legal Trappings

Aug. 14, 1999
By Columnist

^^The Rodent^^ Legal Trappings The lawyer's midcareer crisis is one crisis too many Lawyer life is basically one crisis after...


Environmental


Key Data

Aug. 14, 1999
By Columnist

Key Data Requests for Financial Information Raise Privacy Concerns By Catherine W. Johnson One of the most controversial prov...


Law Practice


Hallinan Accused of Malicious Prosecution

Aug. 14, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering closing argument, Ciro Mancuso's attorney on Thursday blasted Patrick Hallinan for bringing a ...


Marketing


Marketing Mailbag

Aug. 14, 1999
By Columnist

By Sharon Berman Dear Sharon: The majority of my practice depends on being fed business from partners in other practice areas...


Environmental


Superfund Junk

Aug. 14, 1999
By Columnist

^^Environmental Law^^ Superfund Junk Two CERCLA Plaintiffs Flunk Daubert Test These decisions demonstrate that CERCLA lawyers...


Civil Rights


Parity Politics

Aug. 14, 1999
By Columnist

^^Takings Charge^^ By Michael M. Berger It is a solidly accepted part of the constitutional canon that the federal Civil Righ...


Judges and Judiciary


Fired Court Workers Cry Foul

Aug. 14, 1999
By Michael Harris

In a case that has sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal ...


Environmental


Environmentalists and state officials may proceed to trial with claims that three major supermarket chains have violated Prop...