Washington, D.C., May 5, 2009 – LawFuel.com – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two California-based attorneys as well as a California corporation and its owner for preparing and issuing fraudulent legal opinions involving unregistered stock that enabled promoters and others to sell shares in an illegal pump-and-dump scheme. The SEC alleges that attorneys
LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2009 LawFuel.com — Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a law firm with extensive experience in prosecuting claims for securities fraud, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a class of shareholders who purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of Sequenom, Inc. (“Sequenom” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:SQNM). The complaint seeks remedies under the
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LawFuel.com – Newswire – A federal grand jury in Los Angeles today indicted two Garden Grove men on charges related to the smuggling of songbirds – including one injurious species – into the United States. The birds were allegedly concealed on one man’s body during at least one trip on a commercial flight from Vietnam.
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LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire Service – On April 28, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision granting a motion for summary judgment in favor of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the New York City Council and dismissing the plaintiffs’ challenge to the New York City term-limits
Clifford Chance associate awarded top prize in arbitration exam Hong Kong: Clifford Chance associate Kanice Chan has received the prestigious Ray Hughes Memorial Prize from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ east Asia branch. Kanice, an associate in the firm’s Hong Kong Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, achieved the best overall results in the 2008 arbitration
The Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program had its busiest month on record in April. The organization, which helps attorneys deal with problems like depression and substance abuse, had 42 new referrals — nearly twice the monthly average in 2008. The phenomenon isn’t limited to Illinois. Across the country, lawyer assistance programs are seeing demand for their
Toronto, Canada – GAO Research Inc. (www.GAOResearch.com) has released its latest enhanced vocoder (G.723.1). GAO’s G.723.1 dual rate speech coder complies with the ITU-T standard and performs compression and decompression of 8kHz speech signals. It encodes 16-bit PCM samples into 16-bit code-words yielding 10 or 12 code-words per 240 sample frames for the 5.3Kbps and
LawFuel.com – Santa Ana, California – This morning in United States District Court, the former director of finance for Winpak Lane’s California office made his initial appearance to answer charges that he subscribed to false tax returns for the years 2004 and 2005. The charges are detailed in a criminal information filed by prosecutors last
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LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire – Highly Experienced Transactional Lawyer with Intellectual Property and Sports Law Focus NEW YORK, NY – May 4, 2009. Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP is pleased to announce that Daniel C. Glazer has become Counsel to the firm effective today. Mr. Glazer brings exceptional skills and experience to the firm’s
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LawFuel.com – LEV L. DASSIN, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), announced that DANIEL LEDVEN, 37, of Cresskill, New
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