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When Real Laws Meet Virtual People By James Ottavio Castagnera (Jim Castagnera, a Philadelphia lawyer and writer, is the Associate Provost/Associate Counsel at Rider University, Princeton/Lawrenceville, USA) In his 1997 novel, “Idoru,” sci-fi writer William Gibson postulates a pending marriage between a real-life rock star and a virtual vamp. The bride is an “idol-singer” or

Partner of Former Openly Gay Congressman Gerry Studds Denied Spousal Benefits WEST HOLLYWOOD–LAWFUEL – Law News Network –West Hollywood City Councilmember Jeffrey Prang publicly condemned the federal policy that denied pension benefits to the husband of former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA). Councilmember Prang said, “It is an outrage that the only three conditions in which

LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The following UCLA School of Law professor is available for interviews regarding the guilty verdict of George Weller, the 89-year-old man whose car tore through a Santa Monica, Calif., farmers market, killing 10 people and injuring 63 others. He was accused of 10 counts of vehicular

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Skadden is representing Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. in its approximately $8 billion merger with CBOT Holdings, Inc. to form the world’s largest financial market.

The lure of Dubai is attracing some of the biggest law firms in the world, with big fees on offer.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs — The following is a statement of Craig Schelske’s legal team: “Today Mr. Schelske has formally responded to the allegations of Ms. Evans’ Petition for Divorce with several court filings. He has demanded retractions of those allegations, an apology and that the further spreading of false

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced today that a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Dennis R. Di Ricco, 56, of Portola Valley, the Chief Financial Officer of Fleetcars.com, Inc., (Fleetcars) on five counts of bank fraud and four counts of money laundering. According

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – A Midway City man was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for running a multimillion-dollar scheme that defrauded health insurance companies by submitting claims for prescriptions that were never written or never filled. Thuan Huy Ha, 46, was sentenced to 168 months in prison by Chief United

LONDON -LAWFUEL – Law News Network- Allen & Overy has advised on the sale of BCA Holdings Limited to Montagu Private Equity which closed today. BCA Holdings Limited is the parent company of the pan-European British Car Auctions group, which provides physical and electronic car auction services, including through operating 40 auction sites in 11