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CUSTODY DISPUTE GETS NEW HEARING APPEALS COURT BLOCKS RETURN OF CHILDREN TO FATHER IN GREECE

December 1, 2000
A federal appeals court has blocked the return of three Spokane children to their father in Greece. The appeals court said U.S. District Court Judge Alan McDonald erred when he ordered the U.S.-born c...
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FEDERAL PORTION OF ZIEGLER LAWSUIT DISMISSED LAW USED BY LUMBER FIRM EXECUTIVE'S EX-WIFE WAS STRUCK DOWN IN MAY

Article 22 of 51, Article ID: 0007220041

July 22, 2000
U.S. District Court Judge Frem Nielsen has dismissed the federal-claims portion of a lawsuit brought against a Spokane lumber company executive by his former wife. The judge dismissed the claims in la...
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FEDERAL COURT OVERRULES ORDER TO SEND KIDS TO DAD IN GREECE

Article 23 of 51, Article ID: 0005050042

May 5, 2000
A federal appeals court issued an order Thursday temporarily blocking the return of three Spokane children to their father in Greece. The children of Kristi Tsarbopolous, of Colbert, were scheduled to...
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JUDGE ORDERS U.S. KIDS BACK TO GREEK DAD MOTHER SAYS SHE AND HER CHILDREN WERE ABUSED

Article 24 of 51, Article ID: 0004290041

April 29, 2000
U.S. District Judge Alan McDonald has ordered a Spokane woman to take her children, all American citizens, back to Greece next Friday to face the allegedly abusive husband and father they fled three m...
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE CLEARS LEGAL ROADBLOCK; LUMBER HEIR'S BANKRUPTCY CLAIM HALTED CASE BEFORE IT REACHED STATE SUPREME COURT

Article 25 of 51, Article ID: 9912040027

December 4, 1999
A landmark domestic violence case before the Washington State Supreme Court will proceed now because of an order signed by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Spokane. Judge Patricia Williams issued the ...
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LAWYER'S OFFICE WILL HAVE CARIBBEAN TOUCH PAT STILEY WILL OPERATE PRACTICE VIA INTERNET

Article 26 of 51, Article ID: 9908150080

August 15, 1999
Pat Stiley, Spokane's flamboyant, freewheeling lawyer, will leave for the Caribbean this month to practice law to a calypso beat. At 55, Stiley is relocating to Belize, where he plans to maintain his ...
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CLARK NAMED TO SUPERIOR COURT BENCH WILL BEGIN TERM IN JULY AND STAND FOR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER

May 4, 1999
Court Commissioner Ellen Kalama Clark will fill the new spot on the Spokane County Superior Court bench. Gov. Gary Locke made the announcement Monday morning during a ceremony at the Spokane County Co...
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JUDGE ASKS HIGH COURT FOR SPOUSE ABUSE RULINGS WOMAN'S FEDERAL SUIT PROMPTS QUESTIONS ABOUT STATE LAW

Article 29 of 51, Article ID: 9902090295

February 6, 1999
A federal judge in Spokane is asking the state Supreme Court to decide if civil damages can be sought for ongoing domestic violence. In a rarely used legal procedure, the state's highest court also is...
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PROSECUTORS FIRE SECRETARY ONE MONTH AFTER SHE WAS RAPED COUNTY SAYS DISMISSAL OF WORKER WAS NOT RELATED TO HER ATTACK

Article 30 of 51, Article ID: 9812140193

December 11, 1998
Gina Tiberino joined Spokane County's sexual assault prosecution team in August, working as a legal secretary in an office where justice for sex-crime victims is the ultimate goal. Two months later, t...
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ZIEGLER CLAIMS HE WAS VICTIM OF ABUSE EX-LUMBER BOSS COUNTERS THAT HIS EX-WIFE WAS PERPETRATOR

October 10, 1998
Domestic violence allegations against the former president of a Spokane lumber company are fabricated or grossly exaggerated, a counterclaim filed in federal court says. Reid Ziegler claims he was not...
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