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Criminal


Westerfield's Lawyers Seek Sentencing Delay

Nov. 16, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for David A. Westerfield, the convicted murderer of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, are seeking postponement ...


Litigation


Family, Friends Mourn Two Lawyers' Deaths

Nov. 16, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

PASADENA - Services will take place Nov. 30 for Pasadena attorney David C. Haber, one of two lawyers killed Saturday in an aut...


Large Firms


Troubles Reported All Round

Nov. 16, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison plans more layoffs and partner sacrifices to help it survive into 20...


Technology & Science


Big Trade Secrets Case Settles

Nov. 16, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Concluding an epic battle over stolen technology, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc. have settled their long...


Judges and Judiciary


Remembering Mildred Lillie

Nov. 15, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Earl Johnson Jr. - Justice Mildred L. Lillie was the very best colleague that any appellate judge could hope...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Approves Bush Nominees

Nov. 15, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee - still under Democratic control during a rare, lame-duck session of Congress - ap...


Judges and Judiciary


Remembering Mildred Lillie

Nov. 15, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - An examination of the life of Justice Mildred L. Lillie illuminates her determination, de...


Government


Inflammatory Election Fliers Haunt Sender

Nov. 15, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Ricardo Anthony Torres II is the first to admit he's no political professional. The Alhambra personal injury and...


Law Practice


Female Judicial Pioneers on the Silver Screen

Nov. 15, 2002
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - The latest offering from Albany lawyer-turned-filmmaker Abby Ginzberg includes moments from the profound to the pros...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Harold M. Brody and Gloria C. Jan - Employers certainly should not construe Salazar as a pr...


Government


FBI Agent, Condemned Killer Form Unlikely Bond

Nov. 15, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani man who murdered two CIA officers and wounded three others in 1993, and FBI Special...


Real Estate/Development


Predatory Lending Hurts Poor

Nov. 15, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Joy A. Simmons - In low income and minority neighborhoods, particularly South Central and East Los Angeles, ...


Government


Baca Withdraws His Support for Pacheco

Nov. 15, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Attack leaflets from a longtime ally of Nick Pacheco cost the incumbent councilman the endorsement Wednesday of ...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups seeking to reduce auto-related air pollution in the Bay Area do not have the right to att...


Media


Cooley Directives Support Media

Nov. 15, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to stop seeking search warrants for news media o...


Government


Time Bomb

Nov. 15, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Because of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Bush administration, the president ...


Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers who think they have a good idea of what Hades will be like when they finally get there should...


Appellate Practice


Homebuilder Loses Lawsuit to Spellings

Nov. 15, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - The president of a construction company cannot sue TV producer Aaron Spelling, his wife or his lawyers for malic...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The decision to let stand a $290 million punitive damages award was...


Education


Court Passes on School Race Ratios

Nov. 15, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to help a federal appeals court decide whether a policy that a...


Law Practice


Bring on the Tort Reformers

Nov. 15, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Bruce Brusavich tackles his breakfast much the way he confronts a product liability case or legislation: He gets ...


Criminal


Killer's Attorneys Want Bench Officer Removed

Nov. 15, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty in Imperial County moved Wednesday to disqu...


Large Firms


Brobeck Manager Quashes Merger Rumors

Nov. 14, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan,...


Criminal


Hallucination Merits Lesser Murder Term

Nov. 14, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in both eyes and then strangled him to death has won a reduced senten...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Judge Dismisses Stock Lawsuit

Nov. 14, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - In a key victory for the state Judicial Council, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by two stock m...


Communications


Let Market Regulate, Not State

Nov. 14, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...


Intellectual Property


Monster-Movie Guru Wins Appeal

Nov. 14, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Monster-movie guru Forrest Ackerman, also known as "Dr. Acula," can keep a $518,000 judgment he won from his for...


Personal Injury & Torts


A Bouquet for Gennifer Flowers

Nov. 14, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...


Criminal


DA On Trial Sticks to His Story

Nov. 14, 2002
By Robert Selna

SAN RAFAEL - A Marin County prosecutor failed Tuesay to derail San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews' self-defense claim that...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Goes From Mental Gymnastics to Metal Work

Nov. 14, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - It can be as late as 11 p.m. when Superior Court Judge Sheridan Eckhardt Reed goes down to her basement workshop. ...