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Public Interest


Among the 10,000 people expected at yesterday's Orange County AIDS Walk at the University of California, Irvine, was Ken Babco...


Focus Column - Business Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "A page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v...


Law Practice


Clash of the Titans

Jun. 3, 2003
By John Ryan

When Marshall Grossman and Larry Stein decided to merge their firms in 1999, the pundits wondered how the two attorneys would ...


Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...


Securities


Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...


Litigation


Diet-Aid Maker Must Pay $12 Million

Jun. 2, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...


Criminal


Good Sense Characterizes Judge

May 31, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...


International


Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...


International


Ignoring Soaring Costs?

May 31, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...


Entertainment & Sports


Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...


Criminal


Circuit Weighs Terms Of Bail During Appeal

May 31, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...


Criminal


Police-Beating Victim Wins Reprieve

May 31, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...


Law Practice


Trevor Law Asks U.S. Court to Halt Suspension

May 31, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...


Litigation


Lawyer Hails Combining Sex-Abuse Cases

May 31, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...


Government


AG Interviews Fired Rackauckas Staffer

May 31, 2003
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...


Intellectual Property


Cab Outfit Can't Claim Color Yellow

May 31, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...


Government


SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...


Criminal


Warrantless Drug Search Before Court

May 31, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...


Intellectual Property


Panel Creates Disappearance Of Magic Case

May 31, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...


Criminal


Jury Finds Glendora Lawyer Guilty in Conspiracy

May 31, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...


Corporate


Private Time

May 31, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...


Intellectual Property


Posting of DVD Source Code Before Court

May 31, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...


Immigration


Jurist Releases Iranian Activist

May 31, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...


Law Practice


Bar's Oldest Member Loved Law

May 31, 2003
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...


Government


Jurist Releases Iranian Activist

May 30, 2003
By Jeff Berg

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...


Administrative/Regulatory


Flying Judge Likes View From Bench, Plane

May 30, 2003
By Donna Domino

SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...


Government


People Must Demand Recall

May 30, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - At the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive revolt added the rights of initiative, ref...