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Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Candidates Send Messages in a Mailer

Mar. 3, 2000
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County judicial candidates, faced with a crowded ballot and limited funds, are relying on paid slate ma...


Criminal


A badge and a gun ... No matter how much we improve the recruiting and training of people who wear them, until humans become p...


Family


Two Men and a Baby

Mar. 3, 2000
By Columnist

The debate over Proposition 22 is now in full swing. It seems to be in the media daily. In fact, it appears that the subject o...


Technology & Science


Smart Card Takes On Palm Pilot

Mar. 3, 2000
By Chris Ford

An Irish "smart card" developer recently sued 3Com Inc. in a New York federal court, alleging that technology used in the Pal...


Government


DA Misconduct Hearing Begins

Mar. 3, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Even before opening arguments at a Civil Service Commission hearing for a district attorney investigator fired for...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN BERNARDINO - Gary Redinger knows that his only chance to take a judicial seat from an incumbent in the March 7 elections i...


Personal Injury & Torts


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will rule that federal law pre-empts state-court tort suits b...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN DIEGO - As what once seemed destined to be a typically subdued campaign for four superior court judicial seats moves towar...


Litigation


Lawyer Will Seek to Curb Rampart Officers

Mar. 3, 2000
By Martin Bergn

He'll be back. That was the message Wednesday from a lawyer for alleged police misconduct victims who was rebuffed in his effo...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that federal prisoners whose sentences are reduced by appeals co...


Large Firms


Paul Hastings Founder Leonard Janofsky Dies at 90

Mar. 3, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Leonard S. Janofsky, founding partner of Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, died at his home of a heart attack ...


Law Practice


S.F. Plaintiffs Attorneys at War Over Bread

Mar. 3, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

A judge has ordered two warring plaintiffs attorneys to call a truce and consolidate their cases and asked them to stop bicker...


Cold War-style treachery is trying to make a comeback in Los Angeles, the city of dreams built on betrayal as an art form. In ...


Media


Broadcasters Threatened by Prop. Backers

Mar. 3, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Backers of a juvenile justice ballot initiative are threatening to sue radio stations across the state if they do...


Real Estate/Development


Risky Recreation

Mar. 3, 2000
By Columnist

Permitting recreational use may result in landowner liability for significant personal injury or property damages. ...


Litigation


DAs Sue County Over 401(k) Stock-Trade Loss

Mar. 3, 2000
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles County caused its employees who invest in a 401(k) plan to lose money when it sold, then repurchased shares of sto...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Building Blues

Mar. 2, 2000
By Columnist

The factual differences between 'Landgate' and 'Ali' may provide guidance for government lawyers.


Judges and Judiciary


DA, Jurist Take Different Roads to Same End

Mar. 2, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

RIVERSIDE - Martin H. Swanson and Paul E. Zellerbach have headed in the same direction in life, but they took different routes...


Litigation


North Valley Jurors Get '1 Day, 1 Trial'

Mar. 2, 2000
By Denise Levin

Jurors reporting for duty in the Los Angeles Superior Court's North Valley District only have to serve for one day or one tria...


Investments


CyberDeals

Mar. 2, 2000
By Emma Varesio

Applied Materials buys Etec Systems for $1.8 billion. ...


Government


In another attack on laws that restrict citizen complaints against police officers, the American Civil Liberties Union on Tues...


Criminal


Ex-Court Worker Must Pay $8,300

Mar. 2, 2000
By Michael Harris

Ex-Court Worker Must Pay $8,300 In a case that sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread thef...


Civil Rights


Racial Profiling Is Topic of Discussion

Mar. 2, 2000
By Staff Writer

Racial Profiling Is Topic of Discussion Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks and state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City, are...


Large Firms


On the eve of trial, a former accounting manager settled her lawsuit against Latham & Watkins, the firm she claimed retali...


Criminal


S.D. Bench Can Hear Genzler's Case After All

Mar. 2, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An appeals court has ruled that an effort to disqualify all San Diego County judges from hearing a motion to dismi...


Law Practice


Federal Bar Welcomes New Appointees

Mar. 2, 2000
By Martin Kruming

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff delivered her annual State of the District address during a luncheon last Wednesday sponsored...


Labor/Employment


Corroding Trust in America?

Mar. 2, 2000
By Columnist

By David Frum Must we make the same mistakes over and over again? In January, the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan...


Criminal


Ex-Wife Nearly Driven to Suicide, DA Testifies

Mar. 2, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Claudia Oleesky, the ex-wife of a man charged with obstruction of justice, stalking and robbing a food bank for bl...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Sports Stats Come Easy for Merger Whiz

Mar. 2, 2000
By Emma Varesio

Eric Reifschneider is a math junkie who likes sports. ...


Criminal


Babydol Loses Bid to Disqualify

Mar. 2, 2000
By Michael Harris

Lawyers for accused madam Jody Babydol Gibson lost a bid Tuesday to disqualify the Los Angeles district attorney from prosecut...