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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...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Nearly 11 years have passed since 16 federal judges filed suit in the old U.S. Claims Court, contending that Cong...


Government


County Program Will Fingerprint Homeless

Oct. 18, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

To give the homeless of Riverside County a helping hand, officials are asking for a finger or two. Starting next month, the co...


Despite their vote last week to bolster the Los Angeles Police Department's recruiting budget by about $615,000, two members o...


Personal Injury & Torts


Manager Sues Firm Over Press Release

Oct. 18, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Sybase manager has sued San Francisco's Wotman Kors & Cloutier, saying its lawyers defamed him in...


Labor/Employment


Twelve years ago, the California Supreme Court, in Foley v. Interactive Data Corp., pulled its head out of the musty old law b...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Oct. 17, 2000
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:


Litigation


Blind Ambition

Oct. 17, 2000
By Columnist

Litigators may want to avoid rogue clients whose dishonesty is going to be a big part of the case.


Transactions


San Jose's Oplink Communications has gone public with an initial public offering worth $247 million. Oplink makes components t...


Transactions


Enron Wind Corp. has sold its Lake Benton II wind farm - reportedly the largest wind farm ever built - to FPL Energy LLC. The ...