Articles by Elaine Woo

P. Cameron DeVore, an attorney who helped establish the field of media law and was one of the first to successfully argue that advertising was a form of speech protected by the Constitution, died Sunday at his home on Lopez Island, near Seattle. Read more

Judge Jack Tenner, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was involved in many of the city’s civil rights struggles over the last 60 years, including fighting restrictive housing covenants in the 1940s and helping to elect some of the area’s most prominent African American officeholders – including the late Mayor Tom Bradley – has died. Read more

Judge Jack Tenner, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was involved in many of the city’s civil rights struggles over the last 60 years, including fighting restrictive housing covenants in the 1940s and helping to elect some of the area’s most prominent African American officeholders – including the late Mayor Tom Bradley – has died. Read more

Dorothy Green, a leading environmental activist whose anger over the pollution of Santa Monica Bay spurred her to establish the grass-roots group Heal the Bay and head efforts to change water policy in California, died Monday at her Westwood home. Read more

Hayden Carruth, an editor, critic and poet who earned recognition late in his 50-year writing career for powerful work that explored the struggles, loves and desires of people who made their living with their hands – as he did for two decades – has died. Read more

Doris “Dodo” Meyer, who served for two decades as the San Fernando Valley’s liaison to City Hall during the Tom Bradley administration and helped forge the black-Jewish coalition that was crucial to his electoral successes, died Saturday at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. Read more

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Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Julius M. Title, who was the oldest retired judge assigned by the state to hear cases, died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Cheviot Hills. Read more

Siegfried Halbreich, a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps who devoted the second half of his long life to public education about the horrors that Jews experienced during World War II, died of heart failure Wednesday at his Beverly Hills home. Read more