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WASHINGTON & DENVER- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network -Aug. 18, 2006–U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry engaged in racketeering, finding in favor of the government in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry in a 1,653-page ruling. Kessler said the tobacco companies had engaged in a decades-long conspiracy to hide the

Spitzer Cites Misleading Use of Contests and Gift Cards LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a series of settlements involving fake “scratchoff” prize promotions and other false advertising for automobile sales. Four Western New York auto dealerships and a Louisiana-based firm that specializes in auto ad promotions settled investigations

Authorities asked Patsy Ramsey in late May, a month before she died of cancer, whether she would be willing to meet with the man who claims he killed her 6-year-old daughter, the Ramsey family’s attorney said Friday, reported in LawFuel.com from The Washington Post.

BALTIMORE August 18, 2006 Ober|Kaler announced today that William J. Thomas has joined the 128-attorney firm as a principal adding depth to the firm’s expanding national commercial finance and financial institutions practice. Mr. Thomas brings more than thirty years of experience in the financial services industry. Previously with Miles & Stockbridge, Mr. Thomas, 51, served

Friday 18 August 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Mr Antonio (Tony) Pisano appeared before the Armadale Magistrates’ Court, in Western Australia, this week on thirty-three charges of fraud. The charges follow an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The charges relate to Mr Pisano’s dealings with money he

YOUNGSVILLE, N.C., Aug. 17 LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Law Enforcement Associates Corporation (LEA) (Amex: AID – News), a leading provider of surveillance and security products to the global law enforcement, military, security and corrections markets, today announced it has entered a worldwide product licensing agreement with Smith & Wesson Corp., the 154-year old

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced today that defendant Jose Ruiz entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge James P. Cohn to possession of child

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 17 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network — Today a unanimous eight-man jury in New Orleans rendered a $51,000,000 verdict against Merck & Co., Inc., and its drug Vioxx. This lawsuit arises out of Gerald Barnett’s use of Vioxx. Barnett, a 62 year-old retired Special Agent of the FBI, took Vioxx continuously

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 LAWFUEL – Law News Network — The following is a statement by the White House Press Secretary: The President has authorized the Department of State to continue assistance to Colombia in carrying out an “Airbridge Denial (ABD) Program” against civil aircraft reasonably suspected of trafficking in illicit drugs. In granting this authorization,

BEIJING, Aug. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — The former General Manager of Yahoo China, Zhou Hongyi, took Yahoo China to court on August 17 on a charge of “making public remarks to distort facts, insulting and libeling the claimant via various media”. Zhou Hongyi currently acts as Chairman of qihoo.com and Angel Investor. He was also the