Read Case Result “I am thrilled that we were able to overwhelmingly demonstrate to the court, on motion, the oppressive treatment of Rich and Yvonne by their business partners/siblings. No one should have to endure that kind of treatment, but especially when it is your business partner. With...
Appeals court grants Dish review of TiVo case
Regardless of the appeals court’s decision in the Mitchell case, the future implications of computer animation in criminal trials could be seen in the 1992 murder trial of Orange County developer James Hood. For the first time in California, both sides had the benefit of computer animated re-...
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Wednesday called for stricter regulation by the nation’s courts of last-gasp appeals filed by Death Row inmates. Rehnquist said he intends to ask a group of judges to study “the possibility of imposing some reasonable regulations in a situa...
“A lot of institutions in this community have failed to do their job,” says Stephen Reinhardt, former president of the Police Commission and now a judge on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The media, Reinhardt says, are “one of those institutions.” ...
King, 36, also spoke of the “strange ironies” that now have united King’s friends and family with Ray in a search to uncover the whole story of what happened in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when a rifle bullet ripped into his father’s face. Quoting his father, King said, “We are...
The handguns, however, were discovered during a separate police search for the financial records of the Panther-run Oakland Community School. Newton was eventually charged with embezzling $600,000 in state aid to the school. Those charges were dropped in exchange for his plea of no contest to...
The case also spawned a legal landmark, as a state appellate court ruled that the same constitutional guarantees giving the public the right to attend criminal trials also applies to civil cases. The decision resulted from appeals by the The Times and KNBC of a ruling by Superior Court Judge...