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Feb. 5, 2007

California Dreamer

Coins in a fountain became a wish fulfilled for Santa Barbara County Superior Court Presiding Judge J. William McLafferty.

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By Max Follmer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SANTA BARBARA - At the tail end of a 1968 road trip to California, three law-school buddies from Duquesne University decided they had had enough of snowy Pittsburgh winters and wanted to trade the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers for the blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
      Having survived the rigors of Duquesne's law program - for which cla... (continued)

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