Washington, DC – 02/28/2008 – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison—a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety. According to a new report released today by the Pew Center […]
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Iraq’s three-member Presidency Council has approved the execution of Ali Hassan Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as “Chemical Ali,” said a high-ranking Iraqi government official today who was not authorized to speak on the subject. The official said there was no date set for the hanging, which must be carried out within 30
Philadelphia, Pa. – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – February 28, 2008 – Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has appointed Michael A. Schwartz, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, chairman of a newly formed assessment team that is evaluating the status of Philadelphia Safe and Sound, a city-funded nonprofit organization responsible for contracting out protective services
DENVER – LAWFUEL – US Legal Announcements – United States Attorney Troy Eid announced today that he has appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Rhodes to serve as deputy chief of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). Rhodes has been with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 12 years and has expertise in complex
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LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Henry Gutierrez, Inspector in Charge, Miami Division, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced today that Russell G. MacArthur, Jr., pled guilty to defrauding consumers as part of a DVD vending machine scheme. The conviction is the latest development
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LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – In a plea agreement filed today in United States District Court in Philadelphia, a Princeton, New Jersey man agreed to plead guilty to perjury, admitting that he lied to numerous federal judges across the county who were presiding over securities class actions. John B. Torkelsen, 62, who is currently housed
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NEW YORK, February 25, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Wolfgang Leip, a leading German patent litigator, joins the Frankfurt office of Kaye Scholer LLP. Leip, previously the head of Mayer Brown’s patent litigation practice in Germany, brings his entire team to Kaye Scholer, which includes associate Dr. Benedict von St. André and two assistants. Leip advises
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New York – February 26, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Galderma Pharma S.A. and its U.S. holding company, Galderma Laboratories, Inc., in connection with Galderma’s definitive agreement to purchase all of the outstanding shares of CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CGPI), at a price of $16.60 per share in cash, in a
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IRS Issues Winter 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today released the winter 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from 134.4 million individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2005. Of those returns, 90.6 million were “taxable.” This means that they reported total income tax
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