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President Bush today signed into law a controversial Bill that permits the tough interrogation of foreign terror suspects and smooths the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be tried before military commissions without any legal representation.

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Signing the Bill, Mr Bush described it as a “vital tool” in the fight against terrorism, but civil liberty campaigners said that it would allow prisoners to be held indefinitely and sentenced to death on evidence beaten out of them. Officially the Military Commissions Act protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning such as rape,

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Paul Hastings Expands Capital Markets and M+A Practice With Addition O…

Paul Hastings Expands Capital Markets and M+A Practice With Addition Of Basil Hwang To Hong Kong Office Hong Kong (October 17, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that Basil Hwang, previously with the Hong Kong office

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Clinton Offers Lie Detector Test, Affidavit to Disprove Allegati…

Clinton Offers Lie Detector Test, Affidavit to Disprove Allegations NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ — In response to what Ronnie Berke describes as irresponsible and inexplicable allegations by country music star Sara Evans, Alison Clinton has categorically rejected the sad, unlawful and despicable attempt by Evans to assign part of the blame for her broken

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LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Allen & Overy LLP today confirmed t…

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Allen & Overy LLP today confirmed the Cornwall Waste PFI scheme achieved financial close, on which it advised the preferred bidder, SITA UK. The Cornwall scheme is the official pathfinder project for waste PFI deals and both DEFRA and PUK have been keeping a close watching brief on the

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Re-issued Tuesday 17 October 2006 LAWFUEL – Australia Law News – A p…

Re-issued Tuesday 17 October 2006 LAWFUEL – Australia Law News – A promoter of illegal property financing schemes has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in compensation and penalties and banned from ever running a company again. Ms Jan Redfern, Executive Director of Enforcement at the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) welcomed

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LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Lourdes “Lulu” Perez, the r…

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Lourdes “Lulu” Perez, the registered nurse who once owned the two largest home health agencies in California was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her role in defrauding Medicare out of $40 million and for filing false tax returns that concealed her ill-gotten gains. Perez, 53, is

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RICHMOND, Va. – Ten partners with McGuireWoods LLP have been named…

RICHMOND, Va. – Ten partners with McGuireWoods LLP have been named to the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America list for 2006. In this recognition, the McGuireWoods partners join a select group of less than one percent of lawyers in the United States. According to Lawdragon’s publishers, the list represents one of the most elite

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New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s public relations windfall following his triumph over insurer ING may have more to do with his gubernatorial ambitions than with compensating ripped off state teachers.

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New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been claiming plenty of credit lately for championing his state’s teachers and forcing insurer ING to pay $30 million for foisting costly annuities on them under false pretenses. But the settlement is likely to do a lot more for Spitzer’s gubernatorial ambitions as he gears up for

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s public relations windfall following his triumph over insurer ING may have more to do with his gubernatorial ambitions than with compensating ripped off state teachers. Read More »

For more information, contact: Jamie Moss, newsPRos, 201-493-1027…

For more information, contact: Jamie Moss, newsPRos, 201-493-1027 for Reed Smith John Healy, Healy Communications, 312-440-3900 for Sachnoff & Weaver (Oct. 16, 2006, Chicago) – LAWFUEL – US Law News – Reed Smith, a top-25 international law firm with offices worldwide, and Sachnoff & Weaver, a leading Chicago law firm, today announced they have reached

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