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Criminal


LOS ANGELES - After a four-month investigation, the state attorney general's office has declined to file charges against two O...


Immigration


Two Arabs Get Some Charges Dismissed

Jun. 28, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge has dismissed some charges against two Arabs facing deportation for their support of the Po...


Large Firms


Heller Ehrman's New CFO

Jun. 28, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe announced Tuesday that longtime transportation industry executive David M...


Banking


Panel Kills Latest Privacy Bill

Jun. 28, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Consumer advocates threw their hands up in disgust Tuesday after the financial industry killed a second bill tha...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company received permission Tuesday to spend $22 million a year on hazardous waste c...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Thursday for Dean Stern, a partner in the litigation department of Gibson, Dunn & C...


Government


Official Labels DA's Action Politically Motivated

Jun. 28, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A district attorney investigator whom San Bernardino District Attorney Dennis Stout recently placed on admini...


Litigation


Show Me the Money

Jun. 28, 2001
By Columnist

Does Business & Professions Code Section 17200 provide needed protections for consumers? Or does it limit consumer choices...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - As fans poured into this year's Super Bowl, police in Tampa, Fla., secretly scanned the faces of the game's 100,...


Law Practice


Attorney Manages Fleet of 300 Racing Greyhounds

Jun. 28, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - When Orange County lawyer H. Dean Steward agreed to represent the president of a real estate firm accused of frau...


Criminal


Use of Wrong Law Upsets 1978 Death Sentence

Jun. 28, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a triple-murderer's 1978 death sentence because t...


Appellate Practice


Ex-Wife Must Give Up Lotto Winnings, Panel Says

Jun. 27, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - It's too bad that Denise Rossi didn't win Saturday's $141 million state lottery. It would have taken the sting o...


Corporate


True Lies

Jun. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Papa John's lost its bragging rights when it coupled its slogan with misleading statements of specific differences in ingredie...


Law Practice


Outcomes of evenly matched trials often depend on the credibility of witnesses. ...


Law Practice


Emergency Exit

Jun. 27, 2001
By Columnist

It is a fact of law firm life that one's worth as a lawyer, and as a person, is measured not by competence or character but ra...


Large Firms


Manatt Plans Outpost in Orange County

Jun. 27, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips announced Monday it plans to open an Orange County office to boost the...


Education


Education Group Will Honor Lawyers' Work

Jun. 27, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - When the country's best-known education group meets for its national convention beginning Thursday at the Los An...


Criminal


Assembly Goof May Force Sex Offenders' Release

Jun. 27, 2001
By Charles Asbhy

DENVER - A Colorado General Assembly goof in 1996 could force the state to release several sex offenders from prison under a C...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - California judges at all levels are required to disqualify themselves from cases in which they hold a financia...


Criminal


Panel Refuses to Hear Nickerson Petition

Jun. 27, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Mill Valley attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach recently got his first taste of federal appellate work before the...


Criminal


Woman Must Perform 3,000 Hours of Service

Jun. 27, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office was sentenced Monday to 40 days in custody and five ...


Government


Unmistakable Unequivocal Utopianism

Jun. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Perhaps you've heard the story of the cooked frog. It goes something like this: A chef is attempting to cook a frog. He grabs ...


Civil Rights


Court Rules Judge Showed Bias Against Alien

Jun. 27, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge who upbraided an illegal immigrant for having children out of wedlock and taking public ass...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Favors E-Rights for Free-Lancers

Jun. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer

WASHINGTON - Two of the major media losers in a closely watched U.S. Supreme Court battle between publishers and free-lancers ...


Criminal


Plea Deal Lets Accused Official Keep His Post

Jun. 27, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - In a move that allows him to keep his job, a county supervisor accused of accepting political gifts has plead...


Environmental


A Dirty Job

Jun. 27, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which a year ago was portrayed in the nation's movie theaters as the epitom...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Defendants charged with abusing the same victim in multiple counties can be tried for all of the crimes in a ...


Environmental


LOS ANGELES - The Alameda whipsnake sleeps half the year and spends the rest hunting fence lizards. It sounds like a pretty go...


Immigration


Immigrants Win Right To Deportation Review

Jun. 27, 2001
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Finding that thousands of legal immigrants faced a significant potential for unfairness, the Supreme Court on Mon...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Jun. 26, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: