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Greetings from New York. This is a tight column, so The Eye has to discard a lot of the 8 million stories in the naked city. T...


Public Interest


Blowing Smoke

Feb. 18, 2000
By Columnist

Proposition 28 on the March ballot offers voters a clear choice: Protecting the healthy development of our children or increas...


Personal Injury & Torts


Uninsured Driver Wants Damages

Feb. 18, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Proposition 213 bars uninsured motorists from...


Solo and Small Firms


Orange County DA Staffer Succumbs to Cancer

Feb. 18, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Attorney Felix Valdez died Saturday of cancer in Arrowhead Medical Center in Colton. He was 47. Valdez began his professional...


Government


Crowded Out

Feb. 18, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers of California, a crisis is upon us. Largely ignored by major media types, it has somehow even escaped our collective a...


Litigation


'Recruit' Sues Over Reverse Bonus

Feb. 18, 2000
By Denise Levin

A 62-year-old retiree claims in a lawsuit he was "recruited" to sue a bank by lawyers and others with the assurance he would n...


Civil Rights


Labeling it another example of Los Angeles police mishandling a mentally unstable person, the parents of Felix Valenzuela, Jr....


Of the many incidents being reviewed for possible criminal charges against rogue Rampart cops, one involves a purported beatin...


Insurance


Remediation Repercussions

Feb. 18, 2000
By Columnist

Businesses are trying to collect insurance money for Y2K remediation costs. ...


Government


Rampart: LAPD Admits to Hiring Unsuitable Officers

Feb. 18, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

Four of 12 officers identified early in the investigation of the Rampart scandal should not have been hired by the Los Angeles...


Law Practice


What do you happen to be carrying in your pockets right now? A pager? A business-lunch receipt? Spare change perhaps? ...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A former manager of an East Bay sewage treatment plant has pleaded guilty to federal pollution charges and fa...


Appellate Practice


State Supreme Court Highlights

Feb. 18, 2000
By David Kravets

Here is a selected summary of actions taken by the California Supreme Court during its weekly conference on Wednesday. ...


Criminal


Nine More Rampart-Related Cases to Be Dropped

Feb. 18, 2000
By Michael Harris

Nine more people are expected to have their cases thrown out today due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, bringing to 3...


Intellectual Property


Passing Off

Feb. 18, 2000
By Columnist

Inducement to infringe a patent is not covered by advertising-injury policies. ...


Litigation


Is There Meat in That Vaccination?

Feb. 18, 2000
By Denise Levin

A vegan computer technician claims he was denied a job at Kaiser Permanente for refusing to take a mumps vaccination because i...


Government


Lynch Endorses Cooley for DA in March Primary

Feb. 18, 2000
By Michael Harris

Saying he believes Los Angeles district attorney challenger Steve Cooley can better oversee the Rampart investigation than inc...


Personal Injury & Torts


Plaintiff Damages Expanded

Feb. 18, 2000
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal panel has ruled that, in false arrest and imprisonment suits based on state law claims, a plaintiff is entitled...


State Sen. Tom Hayden is claiming that the ever-widening LAPD Rampart Division corruption scandal this week saved a former gan...


Criminal


Drug Dealer Operating in Projects Sentenced

Feb. 18, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Marcellus Aaron Elder, convicted last year of dealing cocaine in San Francisco housing projects in 1995, was ...


Intellectual Property


Darby & Darby Abandons Southern California

Feb. 17, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Pasadena's Christie, Parker & Hale has recruited several lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Darby & Darby, a New Y...


Judges and Judiciary


Murphy's Lawyer Withdraws

Feb. 17, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy must either show up in federal court at the end of the month to represent h...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - In last week's groundbreaking decision expanding the "fair use" doctrine to permit some use of copyrighted mat...


Litigation


Bosses Barred Chen's Promotion, Lawyer Says

Feb. 17, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen volunteered to take assignments within the office that no one...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Critical Care

Feb. 17, 2000
By Columnist

Complying with seismic-safety regulations may put California hospitals in critical condition. ...


Criminal


Victim Testifies Happy With Oleesky

Feb. 17, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Despite allegations that Steven and Denise Oleesky bilked a food bank of more than $3 million with the help of Gle...


Education


Professor Tapped to Be Boalt's New Dean

Feb. 17, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - John Dwyer, a nationally known environmental law scholar, was appointed Tuesday to become dean of the Boalt Ha...


Law Practice


Londoner Installed as Bar Head

Feb. 17, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Graham Hollis , a naturalized American citizen who grew up in West London near Heathrow Airport, was recently installed as thi...


Education


By Charles Levendosky Government should not do a number of things. Pushing religion is one of them; telling people when and ho...


Labor/Employment


The inevitable disclosure doctrine is a potentially devastating weapon in the arsenal of former employers. ...