Garance Burke

July 03, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The head of an El Paso shelter says painting the policy change as an anti-smuggling effort is disingenuous.

By Garance Burke

5 minute read

January 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

FRESNO, Calif. AP - Thousands of renters with disabilities are poised to get extreme home makeovers thanks to a major settlement ending a federal lawsuit against a development company run by the sons of GOP donor and San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos.The settlement announced Wednesday by the National Fair Housing Alliance will require the A.

By GARANCE BURKE

3 minute read

February 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

FRESNO, Calif. AP A judge on Friday tossed out a $19.1 million judgment awarded a former Fresno State women's basketball coach who had sued the school claiming gender discrimination, and ordered a new trial unless she accepts a smaller sum.Former coach Stacy Johnson-Klein has until Feb. 22 to decide whether she'll accept a $6.

By GARANCE BURKE

2 minute read

March 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A man on trial for killing his girlfriend was shot to death inside a Stockton, Calif., courtroom Wednesday after he attacked the judge presiding over his murder trial with a cutting tool.A Lodi police detective attending the trial fatally shot 28-year-old David Paradiso after he left the stand and began attacking San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox, said Dave Conecny, a spokesman for the sheriff's department.

By Tracie Cone and Garance Burke

3 minute read

March 05, 2009 | Daily Report Online

FRESNO, Calif. AP - A man accused of killing his girlfriend was shot to death in a Stockton courtroom Wednesday after he attacked the judge presiding over his murder trial, officials said.David Paradiso, 28, was shot by a police detective after he left the witness stand and began attacking San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox during a break in proceedings, said Dave Konecny, a spokesman for the sheriff's department.

By TRACIE CONE and GARANCE BURKE

3 minute read

April 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By GARANCE BURKE

3 minute read

March 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By GARANCE BURKE

3 minute read

November 28, 2007 | Daily Report Online

STOCKTON, Calif. AP - Gurinder Singh's lawyers say he would still have a father if a faulty seatbelt in the family car had unlatched instead of pinning his dad inside the flaming Toyota Corolla where he lost his life.A civil trial on their claim that Toyota Motor Corp., the world's No. 2 automaker, made thousands of Corollas equipped with unsafe seatbelts opened Tuesday in central California.

By Garance Burke

4 minute read

March 15, 2013 | Daily Report Online

News agency Reuters has suspended with pay a deputy social media editor after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

By Garance Burke and Paul Elias

4 minute read

August 16, 2005 | Law.com

Next month, Stephen King, Amy Tan and other best-selling writers will auction on eBay the right to name characters in their new novels. The profits will go to the First Amendment Project, whose lawyers have repeatedly gone to court to protect the free speech rights of activists, writers and artists. One such case, over whether a high school student's angry poetry constituted a "criminal threat," recently went before the California Supreme Court.

By Garance Burke

4 minute read