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WASHINGTON, March 14, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Terrorism & Law Issues – Administrative tribunals were held March 9 and 10 for three of the 14 high-value detainees being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Defense Department announced on March 12. Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings were held March 10 for

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2007 – LAWFUEL – US Legal News – Suspected al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Muhammad has admitted masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as well as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” an interpreter read from Muhammad’s statement to the

HOUSTON, March 14 LAWFUEL — Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that Evan D. Flaschen and Gregory W. Nye will join the firm as partners. Both are currently partners in the Financial Restructuring Group at Bingham McCutchen LLP. It is expected that a number of financial restructuring attorneys from Bingham will follow Mr. Flaschen and

LawFuel.com – Sports Law News – Michigan is looking to decriminalize the betting on an NCAA tournament office pool, according to reports. Kim Meltzer, a Republican from Macomb County’s Clinton Township plans to introduce legislation that would decriminalize participation in an NCAA tournament office pool, which is currently illegal in Michigan law where the placement

STAMFORD, Conn.- LAWFUEL – Sports & Entertainment Law – In the spirit that has made WrestleMania the premier brand in the pay-per-view industry, every future World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-views will feature talent and storylines from all three WWE programs: — “Monday Night RAW®,” “Friday Night SmackDown®,” and “ECW®: Extreme Championship Wrestling(TM).” Starting with Backlash® on

LawFuel.com – The confession from Osama bin Laden deputy Khalid Mohammed to the masterminding of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York have been released by the Defense Department. Mohammed described himself as bin Laden’s “operational director” and said he was responsible for the September 11 attacks “from A to Z”. See transcript below: http://www.defencelink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf

LAWFUEL.com – Wellington – 15 March 2007 A number of law firms in the Wellington regions have landed significant payments from the legal aid system, notwithstanding claims that funding of legal aid is insufficient and people are being left unrepresented in Court. By region, Wellington was the biggest-charging region, dominating seven of the top seven

LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ Law Scandal – Morrison & Foerster attorney James Brosnahan is cock-a-hoop at the dismissal of charges against the lady from Hewlett Packard. But, the WSJ Law Blog points out, was it all due to his own legal tactics and argument. No, says WSJ Law Blog, it’s ‘the ring’. Let them explain: While

LawFuel.com – See LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ file – If it’s not our favourite comb-over, making a guest appearance evidently at the trial-of-this-part-of-the-century, the Conrad Black show in Chicago. The Don himself is scheduled to give evidence at the trial of the former Daily Telegraph chairman, who renounced his Canadian citizenship so he could enter the

FOSTER CITY, Calif. FOSTER CITY, Calif.–LAWFUEL – Patent Law News –Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (NASDAQ:EFII) the world leader in color digital print servers, superwide format printers and inks, and print management solutions, and its superwide format printer unit VUTEk, recently obtained a sweeping victory in its defense of a patent lawsuit filed by Leggett &