SACRAMENTO —A state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a felony forgery charge against Republican Assemblyman John R. Lewis of Orange, ruling that Lewis committed no crime even if he did order the mailing of hundreds of thousands of campaign letters bearing the phony signature of former President ...
Real now is one of the toughest of the 26 federal trial judges in Los Angeles. He is also the fastest in deciding his cases, and partly because of his speed and toughness, he is reversed more often than any of his colleagues by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Called Judicial ...
“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.” The media, of course, do ...
A drug and alcohol testing program for 200,000 railroad workers nationwide was temporarily blocked Friday by a federal appeals court, three days before it was to take effect. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals prohibited the Federal Railroad Administration from...
Last August, Baxter wrote the court’s majority opinion ordering that a libel verdict against the University of California be set aside so that the cattle rancher who brought the suit and the university could settle the case without years of court appeals. ...
According to an appeals court opinion on the case, however, Smyth has said that she was in Oziel’s office Oct. 31 and that he told her to wait outside while he met with the brothers.
former Kennedy law partner said that Schenley’s ABC violations “would have nothing to do with the legal work we did for them in California.” As part of that work, Kennedy and his partners reviewed Schenley’s contracts in California, said Hugh A. Evans, now a state appeals court ...
” said Kaufman, a federal appeals court judge in New York. He gave the full labor report to President Reagan on Jan. 14, but it will not be released in its entirety until completion of the New York trial of a car-theft ring and murder conspiracy in which Castellano had been a ...
Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for raping a teen-age beauty contestant, his protests of innocence rejected by a judge who said she believes he could rape again.
Many of these political advocacy groups operate responsibly, raising money for legitimate causes and spending it on them. For donors, however, there are no guarantees. The problem? The regulatory system, devised by politicians, is not set up to look closely at groups that raise funds for politi...