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Litigation


Team Approach

Nov. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Arbitration and mediation activity have helped resolve countless disputes involving construction projects. These same skills c...


Labor/Employment


Busy Fox Changes Its Boilerplate

Nov. 4, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The corporate lawyers at MGM were sleeping with the enemy Wednesday in Santa Monica. Entertainment litigator Larry Stein of Al...


Litigation


Strict Scrutiny

Nov. 4, 2000
By Columnist

In the past, every party in the chain of distribution of an allegedly defective product was jointly and severally liable to th...


Litigation


Policing Policies

Nov. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Although California's False Claims Act (Gov't. Code Sections 12650 et. seq.) was enacted 13 years ago, there is but one appell...


Public Interest


Political Cancer

Nov. 4, 2000
By Columnist

The initiative process eviscerates representative government. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Candidate's Mailer Angers Judges

Nov. 4, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A controversial mailer sent out by a candidate for judicial office in Orange County who is a state appellate court...


Criminal


Judge Reverses Conviction of Orange County Official

Nov. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has overturned the conviction of former Orange County Assistant Treasurer Matthew R. Raabe...


Civil Rights


Police Union Fails to Block Decree

Nov. 4, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs rejected the Los Angeles Police Department officers union's request to stop th...


Government


WASHINGTON - The federal government over the last fiscal year collected $1.5 billion in civil fraud settlements and judgments,...


Government


Some Legislatures Try to Curtail Initiatives

Nov. 4, 2000
By Staff Writer

DENVER - A trend in taking issues directly to the voters through ballot initiatives has grown in the past decade and may well ...


Litigation


Dental Company Sues Over Libel

Nov. 4, 2000
By Ed Kimble

A dental corporation based in El Segundo was not content to just grin and bear it when the badmouthing began on a Yahoo! messa...


Government


A Los Angeles police officer on trial in the Rampart scandal testified Thursday that he never saw a gun in the hand of a gangs...


Criminal


Decade-Old 'Wetback' Remark Raises Questions

Nov. 4, 2000
By Staff Writer

SEATTLE - A Washington state Supreme Court candidate who 12 years ago referred to Hispanic defendants as "wetbacks" is being a...


Litigation


Members of Motley Crue are no strangers to legal wrangling. But the heavy metal band's frontman, Vince Neil, doesn't have the ...


Criminal


Drug Treatment War

Nov. 4, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Speaking on the courthouse steps here, actor Martin Sheen, who plays the president on a television program, took ...


Criminal


With a stern lecture on prosecutorial ethics, a federal appeals court overturned a loan-fraud conviction Thursday because the ...


Firm Watch


Construction law specialist Bryan C. Jackson has moved across town to the Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...


Criminal


Fund-Raiser's Convictions Tossed in Part

Nov. 3, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

A San Francisco mortgage broker, arrested on the eve of a splashy fundraising dinner she organized for President Clinton in 19...


Real Estate/Development


Vendor 580b-ware

Nov. 3, 2000
By Columnist

The recently decided case of Lawler v. Jacobs, 83 Cal.App.4th 723 (2000), affirms that the exception to Code of Civil Procedur...


Large Firms


Silicon Valley business is apparently so ripe for the picking that one of Florida's largest law firms has decided to open a h...


Law Practice


The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they do to celebrate winning a big case. ...


Government


Davis and Feinstein Endorse Garcetti

Nov. 3, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Gov. Gray Davis and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Wednesday announced their endorsements of incumbent District Attorney Gil Garcetti, ...


Constitutional Law


Individual Right

Nov. 3, 2000
By Columnist

When Joseph Lieberman said while campaigning in Michigan that "the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom fr...


Litigation


The Van Nuys Self-Help Legal Access Center opened its doors to civil pro per litigants of all stripes Wednesday morning with p...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Supreme Preview

Nov. 3, 2000
By Columnist

The issues are central to regulatory takings litigation. Answers to all of them will be most welcome - so long as they are cle...


Appellate Practice


If you're thinking about getting a domestic violence protective order, your abuser better be someone you've been seriously cou...


Government


Riverside Settles With Tyisha Miller's Family

Nov. 3, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A $3 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the family of Tyisha Miller, whose controversial ...


Litigation


Disparaged Lawyer Sues Over Site

Nov. 3, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County attorney who was disparaged on a Web site after a dispute with a former client has struck back wi...


Education


School Voucher Initiative Draws Opposition

Nov. 3, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday announced its opposition to Proposition 38, the school vouc...


Judges and Judiciary


Legislators Name Their Bar Court Members

Nov. 3, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - In a move that could renew fears that the State Bar Court will become politicized, a staff attorney to the state ...