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LawFuel.com lead story – The corporate spying case against former Hewlett Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn was dismissed by a California judge today. Former HP ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker and two private investigators will also avoid jail time after their lawyers entered no contest pleas to misdemeanor charges in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday.

LawFuel.com – Secret hearings at Guantanamo Bay at the weekend resulted in a confession from one of the brains behind the 9/11 terror attacks. The hearings were held as the US military determined whether 14 of the prison’s highest profile inmates should be prosecuted. A transcript released by the Pentagon of the hearing showed that

Lawfuel.com – See LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Files’ – Russian Multi-Billionaire Roman Abramovich’s wife Irina appears to have made a legally-disastrous strategic mistake, by divorcing her husband in the wrong jurisdiction. Honestly, where do these billionaires get their legal advice, anyway? Irina, pissed at having Roman strolling hand-in-hand with 25 year old beauties is now doubly annoyed

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Defendants Allegedly Fraudulently Conspired to Obtain over $1,000,000 in Equipment From Cisco under the SMARTnet Service Contract Program SAN JOSE, Calif. – LAWFUEL – California Law – A federal grand jury in San Jose has charged four Minnesota residents with defrauding Cisco Systems, Inc. of over $1 million computer networking equipment, United States Attorney Scott

SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – California Legal – U.S. Attorney Scott Schools announced that Michael Costa was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for his role in directing a cross-country, 1,000 kilogram marijuana distribution conspiracy involving the use of firearms, violence, and money laundering to execute the drug trafficking scheme. This sentence is the

Homicides prosecutors have been called into the Anna Nicole Smith case, according to reports in the Miami Herald. Seminole police will not comment on the nature of the discussions that have been held, according to Broward chief state attorney Chuck Morton. The Herald reported Seminole Police Captain Robert McDaniel cautioning against making conclusions about meeting

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–LAWFUEL – Law Business News –Endeca Technologies, Inc., an enterprise information access software company, today announced that LexisNexis has selected the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) to power the legal business development solution, LexisNexis® atVantage™. Designed to help business development and marketing professionals at law firms identify new business opportunities and grow existing accounts,