2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A Houston law firm said Monday that Dynegy Inc. (DYN) agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit with more than 1,900 retirement plan beneficiaries and participants for $9.98 million. Law firm McClanahan & Clearman said the settlement was approved by a Houston judge Friday. According to a Dynegy representative, the […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after the president announced his nomination of retired Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey to serve as attorney general of the United States: “The nomination of Mike Mukasey to serve as our next attorney general comes

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Serious doubts are being cast on a crucial part of the police case against Kate and Gerry McCann. Portuguese police began to suspect the couple after a sniffer dog trained to detect “the scent of death” reacted strongly to their hire car and Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat toy. However similar

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The right to apply for habeas corpus was in many respects anachronistic, given that remand inmates had the right to appear before a court every seven days and were assisted by legal aid, said Criminal Bar Association of New Zealand President, Graeme Newell. Mr Newell, who was asked to

Former NSW barrister William Roy Davison, has been struck off the roll of legal practitioners for failing to meet $1.3 million in tax obligations between 1989 and 2005, Lawyers Weekly reports. The NSW Court of Appeal dismissed Davidson’s challenge to an Administrative Decisions Tribunal decision ordering his name be removed from the roll. Davison had

Funding Supports Efforts to Combat Gang Violence and Increase Prevention Efforts WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Department of Justice announced more than $3.5 million in anti-gang funding to California. Funding will be used to combat gang violence and increase gang prevention efforts under the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Initiative. The Attorney

Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it filed civil fraud charges against two former officers of a Syracuse-based retail and wholesale food company for repeatedly inflating reported income by improperly accounting for vendor rebates and other promotional allowances. The Commission’s complaint,

HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 17, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on

Firm Recognized Among Fortune 1000 and American Lawyer 200 for Supporting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Equality CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that the firm received a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2008 Corporate Equality Index and Best Places to Work

BEAUMONT, Texas – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Attorneys from Dallas’ McKool Smith P.C. won a federal court jury verdict of $156 million for Dallas-based TGIP Inc. against AT&T Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit over two patents covering point-of-sale activation of telephone calling cards. The verdict was delivered late Friday in the United