LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – WSJ Review – Duane Dog Chapman’s book – Bounty hunter Duane Chapman is not your standard working stiff. He has been stabbed, scratched and beaten with various objects, and he has peered down the barrels of a wide assortment of firearms. Or so “Dog” Chapman, the star of the
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good
LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – Erica Restall, an associate solicitor at the Wakefield firm of Switalskis, acted for Brett James in the High Court test case which ruled that a prisoner who has served longer than the minimum term in an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) should be set free.
SYDNEY, Australia–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of North Dakota and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes on July 15, 2007. Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments
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LAWFUEL- The Legal Newswire – Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials “blew through” legal constraints they didn’t like and weakened the presidency with a go-it-alone approach in the war on terror, a former Justice Department official writes in a new book. In “The Terror Presidency,” former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith details
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There’s something of a crisis-of-confidence occuring in respect of barristers in the United Kingdom. In recent weeks the Court of Appeal heard the case of a barrister who was convicted of filming up the skirts of unsuspecting supermarket shoppers. In another case, a barrister was prosecuted after allegedly flashing his penis at a wedding reception
LAWFUEL – The legal Newswire – As Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case, reported to jail in Durham, N.C., yesterday to serve 24 hours for criminal contempt, the three students he accused were in talks with the city for a settlement of $30 million and a package of
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WASHINGTON, DC– LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today spoke before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the findings of the Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq, chaired by General Jim Jones. McCain submitted the following statement for the Hearing Record. “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Daily Mail journalist David Jones has been reporting the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for four months. He has barely been able to contemplate that the parents of the missing child might somehow be involved. But now . .
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Almost four months have passed since I first began to investigate the harrowing case of a beautiful little girl who appeared to have vanished into thin air, shortly after being tucked up in bed by her parents on holiday in Portugal. Like a great many people in Britain, and millions more around the world, I
