2007

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 23 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — FantasySportsBook.com (http://fantasysportsbook.com) has announced the launch of their 100% legal, public league and commissioner based, Fantasy-based Sportsbook contest website. The contests offer the public the ability to sign up and play for free using the same format found in the Las Vegas casino sportsbooks in […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Mr James Stanley Phillips, of Blackburn South and Mr Ian Francis Cole, of Frankston, Victoria, were yesterday sentenced to jail in the Victorian County Court following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Phillips, 59, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and will serve a

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Lead story – Well known Auckland ex-lawyer, struck off the roll 20 years ago for his associations with Mr Asia, the drug king, and other activities, is readmiited to practice law following a High Court decision.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Jon Stewart offered a Daily Show-style history of American arms policy in the Middle East on Wednesday’s program. “Obviously, the Iraq War is very complicated,” he began. “It’s another reason why Barack Obama’s foreign policy inexperience is going to be an important issue in this campaign. You can’t have

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension of trading of the securities of the following seven issuers, commencing at 9:30 a.m. EDT on August 23, 2007, and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EDT on September 6, 2007: Environmental Safeguards, Inc. (ELSF) Garden Botanika, Inc. (GBOTQ) Northwestern Steel &

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, July 3, 2002 David J. Friedman, Michael P. Rogan, Daniel E. Stoller On June 27, 2002, the SEC issued an Order, pursuant to its investigative powers under Section 21(a)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,1 requiring the principal executive and financial officers of many of the larger

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Release No. 26, Issued 23 August 2007 On 20 August 2007 the Commerce Commission advised that Transpacific Industries had applied for clearance to acquire the Blenheim/Nelson solid waste collection businesses of EnviroWaste Services and the Timaru/Oamaru solid waste businesses of EnviroWaste Services. The Commission has received two further applications

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Actress Lindsay Lohan on Thursday pleaded no contest to charges of possessing cocaine and drunken driving and will serve one day in jail, 10 days community service and three years of probation, officials said. Reuters reported that Lohan, 21, was charged with seven counts of misdemeanor drug possession and

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A proposal to permit lawyers to refuse instructions on the grounds of personal beliefs would erode the “cab rank” rule, said the ADLS Courts Committee in its submission on the Draft Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers. The committee said that draft rule 3.1.1, which proposed allowing

LawFuel – Legal Newswire – The actor Paul Hogan, star of Crocodile Dundee, may have lost valuable financial and legal papers in a fire, in the midst of an Australian Crime Commission investigation into the affairs of a Swiss-based accountant. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that just minutes before 7pm on Wednesday, flames engulfed the