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Litigation


Ex-Officials of DA's Office File Lawsuit

Jan. 11, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Dan Lough, former second-in-command at the district attorney's office, and Barry Bruins, the office's former ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Resolving a dispute over the wording of a ballot measure in a Huntington Beach city election, an appeals court h...


Column by Garry Abrams - Word that the federal government apparently has closed a six-year investigation of Death Row Records ...


Family


Young Woman Battles Demons, Awaits Justice

Jan. 11, 2002
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - On a recent afternoon in a crowded coffee shop in Pasadena, the pretty young woman with long, blond hair quickly...


Transportation


Transit Board Will Seek Decree Clarification

Jan. 11, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - In a special session, the Metropolitan Transit Authority board Wednesday voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Cou...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that, while there were errors and irregularities in polling p...


Litigation


Geronimo Pratt Attorney Sues Over Fees

Jan. 11, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-old Geronimo Pratt saga swerved into a fee fight among his lawyers Wednesday as Oakland attorney R...


Technology & Science


Setting the Stage for Future of Medicine

Jan. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar, With little fanfare or public notice, President George W. Bush recently sounded the death kn...


Immigration


Circuit Strikes No-Bail Statute for Aliens

Jan. 11, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal statute requiring the detention of lawful resident aliens without bail while they fight deportation ...


Judges and Judiciary


AOC Officer Inducted Into Burger Society

Jan. 11, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Sheila Gonzalez, regional administrative director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for Southern Cali...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has handed an important victory to plaintiffs in a series of cases that a...


Discipline


Panel: Ease Rules for Out-of-State Counsel

Jan. 11, 2002
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - After a year of study, a special panel has recommended that California ease its rules against out-of-state lawye...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Paul Abrams, a federal public defender for 14 years, took the oath Wednesday as the U.S. Central District Court'...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Merrick Bobb, Respectful and effective policing, which was pioneered and practiced first in Los Angeles and ...


Law Practice


Pompous Words Don't Belong in Legal Writing

Jan. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, Were you ever admonished to stop using unnecessarily large or pretentious words in yo...


Discipline


Bar Discipline

Jan. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins, Most attorneys know that discipline can be imposed by the State Bar if the attorney is...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Ordering the resentencing of a South Carolina death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled, 5-4, that w...


Labor/Employment


Corporate Punishment

Jan. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass, In a decision making clear distinctions between retaliation and...


Labor/Employment


Another Option

Jan. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - By Jon D. Meer and Eric S. Beane, As a result of recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and the California ...


Law Practice


Pioneer Founded Boutique Entertainment Law

Jan. 10, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Norman Tyre, an entertainment-law veteran and a founder of boutique firm Gang Tyre...


Large Firms


Burke Williams Acquires Tort Boutique

Jan. 10, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Marking its first foray into Northern California, Los Angeles-based Burke Williams & Sorensen has acquired t...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the list of city agencies trying to shut down the circus of crime and drugs on San Francisco's notorio...


Government


Bush Elevates More Assistant U.S. Attorneys

Jan. 10, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - For Sheldon Sperling, an assistant U.S. attorney for 16 years in Muskogee, Okla., the decision to accept Presiden...


Probate


Deal Gives Craftsman Two Guitars

Jan. 10, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement ending the bitter legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars divides the four valuable instru...


Government


Dennis Herrera Takes the Oath

Jan. 10, 2002
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera took the helm of San Francisco's municipal law office Tuesday, becoming the cit...


Law Practice


Civility Distinguishes Advocate

Jan. 10, 2002
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - Lyle Greenberg kept his 1991 New Year's resolution to become active in some local organizations. "While it is tr...


Criminal


Grand Jury Indicts Pilot Who Staged Protest

Jan. 10, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Middle Eastern pilot who made headlines recently in Arizona a...


Judges and Judiciary


The Teleology Of the Bench

Jan. 10, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed doesn't have much interest in tort law, but let a slip of tax code catch his eye and ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by the partners of New York's Skad...


Constitutional Law


Cannabis Club Looks to Federalism

Jan. 10, 2002
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its quest to win federal protection for the medical distribution of marijuana, an Oakland cannabis ...