2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The ruling of a federal judge who struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act suggests that despite Congress’ attempts to put the Act on firmer constitutional ground, it still faces significant legal challenges. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero ruled that investigators eventually must obtain a court’s approval […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Mother of missing child Madeleine McCann is to be made a formal suspect in her disappearance, according to a McCann family spokesman. AFP reports that McCann arrived at the police headquarters in the town of Portimao at 11:10am (1010 GMT) where hundreds of journalists and onlookers were waiting

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that EDWARD GARAFOLA, a Soldier in the Gambino Organized Crime Family, was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment late yesterday on murder, murder conspiracy, and extortion charges. The sentence was imposed by United States

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Davis Polk & Wardwell today said that it is taking a major step forward in its previously announced plan to expand its French law practice with the arrival of Georges Terrier and Christophe Perchet as partners. Georges Terrier, who joins Davis Polk from Jeantet, a leading independent French law

lawfuel – The Legal Newswire – Proskauer Rose is set to open its London Mayfair office with former O’Melveny & Myers private equity chairman Matthew Hudson as head, The Lawyer reports. Hudson, who joined O’Melveny in 2004 as part of the firm’s strategy to rebuild its private equity practice, said the office will focus on

SANTA ANA, Calif. – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A 64-year-old former contract employee for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon on charges of engaging in illicit sexual contact with a boy while working for USAID in Bangladesh. William Newton Rudd,

Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The SEC today instituted settled enforcement actions against Commonwealth Equity Services, LLP, based in Waltham, Mass.; Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves, Inc., based in Boston; and James X. McCarty, a resident of South Dennis, Mass. for failing to reasonably supervise former registered representative

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The man who was accused of slashing two women with a samurai sword and shooting dead an Auckland man has had his convictions quashed in the Court of Appeal, the New Zealand Herald reports. Antonie Dixon was given a life sentence and a minimum non-parole period of 20 years

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The recent avalanche of finance company failures has highlighted the need for solicitors to be certain that funds that are transferred electronically to their trust accounts and which they are relying on to immediately complete transactions, are cleared funds and will not be reversed. At least two practitioners have

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Age reports that music promoter Glenn Wheatley has won leave to appeal against his 30-month jail sentence for tax fraud offences. Justice Alex Chernov allowed the appeal to continue after finding that grounds raising technical appeal points against the jail term were reasonably arguable. Wheatley, 59, was not