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Entertainment & Sports


Column - By Garry Abrams - Everybody knows that fashion models eat less than most of us cholesterol-swilling proletaries. But ...


Constitutional Law


Drug Policing

Jul. 6, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - The Supreme Court ruling giving public-school authorities the green light to conduct ra...


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jonathan M. Brenner - The U.S. Supreme Court continued its belt-tightening of the Americans...


Litigation


Man Injured in Traffic Stop Wins $13.3 Million

Jul. 6, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Vista jury has ordered the state to pay $13.3 million to a permanently injured Escondido man, who was a passen...


Law Office Automation


Firms Get With 'Knowledge Management' Program

Jul. 6, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - In moves that portend big changes in the resources that California law firms devote to computer technology, th...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Associates who are ready to change jobs should know that there are a lot of employers...


Law Practice


Merger Tightrope

Jul. 5, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - Management Matters - By Blane R. Prescott - As the economy changes pace, more firms than ever are shifting thei...


Real Estate/Development


Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valua...


Criminal


Lawyers Face Off in Van Dam Case

Jul. 5, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Deputy District Attorney Jeff B. Dusek has his trial face on as he walks with unhurried efficiency down the corrid...


Constitutional Law


Drug Policing

Jul. 5, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Julie L. Vogt - Contrary to the contentions of critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's student drug-testing deci...


Constitutional Law


Church May Forbid Woman to Enter

Jul. 4, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES -The Church of Christ in Hollywood may not be able to silence a dissenting voice, but it can keep that voice from ...


Law Practice


Blood Drive Will Aid Hurt Officer

Jul. 4, 2002
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - The law firm of Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez will sponsor a blood drive for an off-duty Los Angel...


Appellate Practice


Ruling Puts Mattel's Lawsuit Back in Business

Jul. 4, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A defendant on the losing end of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is entitled to...


Criminal


Agency Investigates Charges Against Ex-Jurist

Jul. 4, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The state's judicial watchdog agency Tuesday opened a formal inquiry into allegations that a former Los Angeles ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Says Kiss With Deputy Was Consensual

Jul. 4, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - In a written response Tuesday to accusations by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Arthur Block admitte...


Government


Board Votes to Let Itself Expel Elected Officials

Jul. 4, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors gave itself permission in a final vote Tuesday to discipline or oust locally elected...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One thing was lost in the headline news over the U.S. Supreme Court's two landmark d...


Criminal


Snooping Around on Capitol Hill

Jul. 4, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - In the blame game following the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, some of those investigated in government...


Law Practice


Public Defenders Plan to Unionize for Better Pay

Jul. 4, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Deputy public defenders in Riverside County have decided to unionize in an effort to gain pay and benefits parity ...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles judge's ruling has highlighted a serious flaw in a landmark statute that was supposed to make it mu...


Criminal


Neighbors Describe Talk With Westerfield

Jul. 4, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...


Criminal


Animal DNA Experts Testify in Closed Hearing

Jul. 3, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...


Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust a strip club to pay its bills. That's the eternal lesson Ana Bernardi learned earlier thi...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - London-based Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells opened four California offices Monday after a weekend raid of ...


Government


The Right Stuff

Jul. 3, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly four years that Gray Davis has been governor of California, he has compiled a record of highly q...


Criminal


Ex-Parishioner Says Diocese Hid Abuse

Jul. 3, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - A former parishioner accused the Diocese of Orange of concealing knowledge of a religious instructor's sexual acts...


Law Practice


McCoy Wins Point in Tiff With Alioto

Jul. 3, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has revived a bitter fee fight between Angela Alioto and Waukeen Q. McCoy, reinst...