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SAN BERNARDINO - After spending the night in a Fontana hospital room recovering from ankle surgery, Stephen Solomon awoke to a...


Exodus Communications Inc. has acquired the Web-hosting business GlobalCenter from rival Global Crossing Ltd. The stock deal i...


Litigation


Contract Sport

Oct. 24, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

A dispute between USA and Viacom over the rights to World Wrestling Federation programming comes as close to a rumble as many ...


Intellectual Property


Safe and Secure

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Protection against corporate espionage involves a combination of physical security resources and legal strategies. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Heart of the Matter

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers look at human conflict in terms of rights, obligations and remedies. Although facts are important, client problems are...


Insurance


Insurance Adjusters Prevent Personal Injury Settlements

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The favoritism shown to insurance companies is a very serious problem with the California legal system. I am a paralegal and l...


Environmental


Undeserved Burden

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

In a decision with far-reaching consequences, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that mere passive migration of ha...


Intellectual Property


A Shielding Method

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Prior inventors have a new defense against patent infringement. ...


Litigation


Above and Beyond

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

No one can ever say that John B. Marcin doesn't prepare for his cases. While representing the widow of a driver who was killed...


Law Practice


Workshop Planned By Lawyers for Arts

Oct. 21, 2000
By Staff Reports

California Lawyers for the Arts will present a workshop in Santa Monica Nov. 1 on "Freedom of Expression." ...


Litigation


First, Do No Harm

Oct. 21, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Medical malpractice attorney proves anesthesiologist had much less experience in pediatric surgery than he admitted during fir...


Litigation


Bookends

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

He's a bear of a man who looks as if he could play tackle for the Green Bay Packers. She's petite and demure in her designer o...


Litigation


All in a Day's Work

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

Sometimes it seems as if small-firm lawyers are being papered to death. Time is never on their side as opposing attorneys try ...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Reappoints Two Judges to Bar Panel

Oct. 21, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

Two State Bar Court judges have been reappointed by the California Supreme Court. The high court named Ronald Stovitz of San F...


Entertainment & Sports


'Double' Trouble Showdown Nears

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The Eye caught up with Bert Fields on Thursday, and the all-star litigator has this message for all the folks still chomping o...



Spelling It Out

Oct. 21, 2000

On Oct. 6, 1999, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation intended to increase Occupational Safety and Health Act fines for serious ...


Law Practice


Orange County Defense Attorney Michael A. Horan Dies of Cancer

Oct. 21, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Services will take place today for Michael A. Horan, a longtime Orange County criminal defense attorney and former...


Immigration


Meissner to Resign as Commissioner of INS

Oct. 21, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Reacting to her resignation announcement, lawyers Thursday credited Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris ...


Education


RIVERSIDE - No one, aside from Nixon, garnered more ink in the Los Angeles papers in the 1970s than Paul Egly, a reporter once...


Government


DA Wants Oil Companies to Clean Up Their Act

Oct. 21, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has filed a lawsuit against Arco and Thrifty oil companies, accusing ...


Education


Boalt Hall Students Raise More Than $45,000

Oct. 21, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The student-run Berkeley Law Foundation held its 5th annual Auction Extravaganza last Friday for the good caus...


Government


Judge Rejects Bid for Access to Festival Records

Oct. 21, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An effort by the mayor of Laguna Beach to gain access to board meetings, records and membership lists of the city'...


Criminal


Police Union Withdraws Garcetti Endorsement

Oct. 21, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The union that represents 9,000 rank-and-file Los Angeles Police officers on Thursday withdrew its support of District Attorne...


Criminal


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday refused to allow lawyers for two men trying to overturn their convictions to ca...


Environmental


SACRAMENTO - One of the nation's most contaminated sites, the Iron Mountain Mine near Redding, will be cleaned up under a sett...


Product Liability


Suits Reveal Goodyear Danger

Oct. 21, 2000
By Chris Ford

Tread-separation accidents similar to those that have plagued Bridgestone/Firestone but involving large sport utility vehicles...


Constitutional Law


Judge Doubts Reform Act Challenge

Oct. 21, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge expressed skepticism Thursday at contentions that portions of the state's Political Reform Act ar...


Litigation


Expert witnesses need even more preparation than regular witnesses, contrary to popular belief. ...


Law Practice


Snooze, You Lose

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

If your overhead seems unreasonably high, maybe your outgo isn't going where you think it is. ...


Litigation


Judge Rules Against Bid to Reinstate Lawyer

Oct. 20, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Members of a class action who won $7.9 million from a health insurance company they accused of providing a phony doctor for th...