2007

LAWFUEL- The Legal Newswire – Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials “blew through” legal constraints they didn’t like and weakened the presidency with a go-it-alone approach in the war on terror, a former Justice Department official writes in a new book. In “The Terror Presidency,” former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith details […]

There’s something of a crisis-of-confidence occuring in respect of barristers in the United Kingdom. In recent weeks the Court of Appeal heard the case of a barrister who was convicted of filming up the skirts of unsuspecting supermarket shoppers. In another case, a barrister was prosecuted after allegedly flashing his penis at a wedding reception

LAWFUEL – The legal Newswire – As Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case, reported to jail in Durham, N.C., yesterday to serve 24 hours for criminal contempt, the three students he accused were in talks with the city for a settlement of $30 million and a package of

WASHINGTON, DC– LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today spoke before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the findings of the Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq, chaired by General Jim Jones. McCain submitted the following statement for the Hearing Record. “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Daily Mail journalist David Jones has been reporting the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for four months. He has barely been able to contemplate that the parents of the missing child might somehow be involved. But now . .

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In spite of a Republican Party apparatus in Texas which prevented new Republicans from voting and Rick Perry’s videotaped declaration that there were no Texans in the race, Ron Paul received 16.7% of the Texas Straw Poll vote on September 1st and proved that he is the legitimate front-runner

Action in Connection with Year-Long Examinations of “Free Lunch” Seminars for Seniors Washington, D.C., Sept. 7, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Hawaii Securities Commissioner today jointly announced the filing of separate securities fraud actions against a Honolulu man who ripped off older investors and retirees

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — Law Offices Bernard M. Gross, P.C. announces that the firm filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Civil Action No. 07- 1379, on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. (“NWBO” or

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HOWARD SCHNEIDER pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud charges. The Indictment to which he pleaded charged him with defrauding investors — many of whom were family members — out of