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Law Practice


Lawyer Faces Pair of Manslaughter Charges

Oct. 20, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Two charges of misdemeanor manslaughter will be filed against a Westside attorney whose 1995 Mercedes Benz killed two elderly ...


Entertainment & Sports


A state appellate court slide-tackled a Loyola Marymount University soccer coach, dismissing his claim that he was libeled whe...


Admiralty/Maritime


Judge Closes Big Bay Area Dry Dock

Oct. 20, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has fined a ship-salvage company $50,000 and temporarily barred its use of one of the largest ...


Criminal


Bay Area Court Warms to DNA Tests

Oct. 20, 2000
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 1 1/2 years after a controversial ruling barred the use of a form of DNA testing in five San Francisco ...


Criminal


Life Turns Whirlwind For Flores' Attorney

Oct. 20, 2000
By David Houston

After-hours callers to Marshall L. Bitkower's Encino law offices get a recording that begins with the theme from "Dragnet," fo...


Government


With President Clinton's signing late Tuesday of the "high-tech visa bill," Lindi Light will be able to leave her job in West ...


Criminal


Defense Pokes Holes in Tale Of Gangster

Oct. 20, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A former member of one of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of four police ...


Public Interest


Trial Advocates Honor Graduates

Oct. 19, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently honored five law school graduates for their academic...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Difficult Disposition

Oct. 19, 2000
By Columnist

Long-term health care providers charge that regulations offer no chance for meaningful review of governmental action. ...


Constitutional Law


Music Minefield

Oct. 19, 2000
By Columnist

Lawsuits brought to stop online "music swapping" and "movie swapping," as swappers call it, or "piracy," as the recording and ...


Law Practice


Boudreau Dinner Honors Thorsnes

Oct. 19, 2000
By Martin Kruming

The 16th annual Red Boudreau Dinner on Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel will honor plaintiff's lawyer Mike Thorsnes o...


Judges and Judiciary


Women Judges Reflect on Progress

Oct. 19, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Though required by custom and decorum to remain seated at work, Presiding Justices Joan Dempsey Klein and Vaino Spencer have d...


Government


City Council Chastizes Controller

Oct. 19, 2000
By Chris Ford

The city controller drew fire from the City Council on Tuesday for continuing to question billings related to a small portion ...


Law Practice


Richard W. Sprague, longtime attorney and member of the board of directors of the Braille Institute of America, died Thursday ...


Criminal


Journal Will Focus On Juvenile Justice

Oct. 19, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

The California Judicial Council's Center for Families, Children & the Courts plans to devote its annual academic journal, ...


Government


An advisory panel to the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight board is considering whether the department should...


Administrative/Regulatory


The court has given Santa Monica consumer activists the last word on what voters will read about in an initiative to prevent c...


Criminal


Witnesses Fail to Damage Case Against LAPD Officers

Oct. 19, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Witnesses who took the stand Tuesday in the third day of testimony in the Los Angeles police corruption trial seemed to be def...


Environmental


Montrose Trial For Pollution of Pacific Begins

Oct. 19, 2000
By David Houston

A decade after the federal and state governments sued Montrose Corp. and three other corporations for depositing 100 tons or m...


Juvenile


Attorney and former Florida child welfare official Anita Bock, hired by Los Angeles County less than a year ago to revive the ...


Constitutional Law


Supreme Court Appointees Have a Tendency to Surprise

Oct. 19, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Charles Levendosky's opinion piece has it backwards. "A Scalia-Thomas Court Would Hurl the Nation Backwards," Forum, Oct. 6. A...


Insurance


What does one do when a $15,000 box of cigars gets engulfed in small, inhaled flames? ...


Criminal


Department Needs Gender Balance

Oct. 18, 2000
By Columnist

The city of Los Angeles has an opportunity to fundamentally change the culture of the Los Angeles Police Department from one t...


Discipline


Judge Went to Medical School During Sick Days

Oct. 18, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, accused of "malingering" by a judicial watchdog agency, said Monday that h...


Litigation


Panel Transfers Anti-Napster Litigation to Patel

Oct. 18, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Five copyright suits against Napster Inc., scattered around the country, landed Monday in the lap of U.S. Dist...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Governors Call in Consultant

Oct. 18, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of a meeting dedicated to planning, the State Bar Board of Governors decided unanimously Saturday t...


Administrative/Regulatory


Judge to Bar Car 'For Sale'-Sign Ban

Oct. 18, 2000
By David Houston

A federal judge plans to bar the city of Los Angeles from implementing a ban on "For Sale" signs in vehicles parked on city st...


Criminal


Officer: Buchanan Not at Arrest Site

Oct. 18, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles police officer testified Monday during the first trial to emerge from the Rampart corruption scandal that he doe...


Law Practice


Entertainment Lawyer Gordon T. Stulberg Dies

Oct. 18, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Services have taken place for Gordon T. Stulberg, former president of Polygram Corp. and 20th Century Fox Films and a past par...


Litigation


Court Prunes Jury Award in Tree-Trim Case

Oct. 18, 2000
By Daniel Evans

A state appellate court has pruned a $280,000 jury award to a Redondo Beach kindergarten, ruling that the owners of the school...