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Criminal


Security Measures Lead to Dogged Avoidance by Some

Aug. 19, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - It's 8:30 a.m., and the scene at the Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana is a bit chaotic as jurors scurry for ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court provided help Tuesday to a mental patient who dangled for eight years in a Missouri f...


Government


HMO Review Is Focus of Lawmakers' Battle

Aug. 19, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - As California policy-makers craft a law to let patients seek review by independent experts when health plans den...


Education


Services Pending for Boalt Hall Professor

Aug. 19, 1999
By Jeanna Steele

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard W. Jennings, emeritus professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an internationa...


Labor/Employment


Court Approves Contracts That Are Union Only

Aug. 18, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost to organized labor, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that local governments m...


Judges and Judiciary


Marshall Law

Aug. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am overjoyed to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award, but I value this occasion most, as I think ever...


Criminal


Judge Rules Police Coerced Witness for Cop-Killing Trial

Aug. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that false statements by a witness in the case of slain Garden...


Litigation


Object Lesson

Aug. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Christopher Tayback In a recent trial, I raised several persistent objections to the court's jury-selection procedure. The...


Criminal


Hate Crimes Have Shown Slight Drop

Aug. 18, 1999
By Martin Bergn

California law enforcement authorities reported 1,750 hate crimes last year, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Monday....


Technology & Science


Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...


Public Interest


Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...


Criminal


Perjury Charges Sought Against O.J.

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...


Litigation


A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...


Criminal


Robbery-String Defendant Enters Insanity Plea

Aug. 18, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...


Government


Yaroslavsky Seeks Ban on Gun Shows at Fairgrounds

Aug. 18, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...


Government


Woman of The Left Bank

Aug. 18, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Promotes Patience, Fairness

Aug. 18, 1999
By Rebecca Kuzins

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...


Judges and Judiciary


Prior Restraint Order Against Paper Is Lifted

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...


Criminal


Probe of Death Row Label Keeps Spinning

Aug. 18, 1999
By Garry Abrams

A 3-year-old federal grand jury criminal investigation into Death Row Records that once appeared dormant is ongoing and is ex...


Media


In what First Amendment experts are calling an unconstitutional prior restraint, the Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered t...


Litigation


Cigarette Distributors Fuming

Aug. 17, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett.

A group of discount cigarette distributors has sued the 46 states and major tobacco companies involved in a global settlement...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Strip Speech

Aug. 17, 1999
By Columnist

^^Land Use^^ Strip Speech First Amendment Rights Outweigh City's Image Concerns The court doubted the owner planned the image...


Civil Rights


^^Real Property^^ By Mitchell Poole Recent amendments to federal and state sex-offender registration laws give prospective la...


Judges and Judiciary


O.C. Court Needs More Justices, More Room

Aug. 17, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - At first glance, Orange County's Court of Appeal building in Santa Ana, with its Victorian-era architecture, mani...


Litigation


Orange County attorney Monica M. Jimenez has sued her former law partner, prominent Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Raymond ...


Immigration


SAN DIEGO - In an unusual alien-smuggling case, two Mexican citizens have been indicted on charges of illegally bringing four...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - With its reputation for peace-and-love liberalism and its history as the heart of the free speech movement, t...


Probate


Messy Probate Case Spawns a Legal Offspring

Aug. 17, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - A trustee of DHL Express founder Larry Hillblom's $500-million estate has accused Morrison & Foerster and...


Media


Court Expands Media's Right to Documents

Aug. 17, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court has ruled the news media and public have a common-law right of ac...


Intellectual Property


Mag-Lite Skins Copycats in Infringement Case

Aug. 14, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The maker of Mag-Lite flashlights has once again hammered a competitor in court and won the right to pound the competitor's f...