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London, 15 July 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – The European Court of First Instance has today annulled an earlier European Commission settlement decision accepting commitments from De Beers, the world’s largest rough diamond producer, to cease all purchases of rough diamonds from ALROSA Company, the world’s second largest rough diamond supplier.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The ‘Da Vinci Code’ judge who handed the encoded judgment on the bestselling book has been severely criticized for not standing aside in a case when he had “undoubted animosity” The Times reports. Read LawFuel – the Net’s law newswire – first with legal news worldwide.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The NY Post reports: The law firm has a swanky Madison Avenue address, but its out-of-court antics were strictly down and dirty, a female attorney claims. Nancy Pitkofsky alleges partners at her former firm, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, pulled stupid frat-house pranks, including encouraging a drunken secretary

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – New video on Saddam death sentence – What happens to the lawyer? LawFuel – Law Jobs & Law News – The Legal Newswire

In response to a letter Michael Moore wrote about CNN’s reporting on his documentary “SiCKO,” a CNN spokesperson released the following statement: “It’s ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Windpower cut Michael Mercurio’s power bill by a third. But it landed him a lawsuit too. Mercurio was paying $340 per month for gas and electricity, but managed to cut that down to only $114 per year – less than a thirtieth of the previous cost. He did it

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Conrad Black’s biographer, Tom Bower, writes on the conviction of the man who he longed believed to be a crook and charlatan, but still likes. As the first guilty verdict was read out to the crowded courtroom by the judge on Friday, Conrad Black’s eyes closed, his head fell

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – CNN claim to have intercepted a video from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that praises martyrdom as a weapon. The video was to appear on a radical Muslim website and appears to be a compilation of documentary footage and testimony by fellow militants praising fallen Islamists from north

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Action Movie Star Steven Seagal is suing his former law firm for what he regards as excessive legal fees, over $1 million, when he used the firm for an extortion trial in 2002. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Seagal claims he happily paid