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LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Release No. 26, Issued 23 August 2007 On 20 August 2007 the Commerce Commission advised that Transpacific Industries had applied for clearance to acquire the Blenheim/Nelson solid waste collection businesses of EnviroWaste Services and the Timaru/Oamaru solid waste businesses of EnviroWaste Services. The Commission has received two further applications

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Actress Lindsay Lohan on Thursday pleaded no contest to charges of possessing cocaine and drunken driving and will serve one day in jail, 10 days community service and three years of probation, officials said. Reuters reported that Lohan, 21, was charged with seven counts of misdemeanor drug possession and

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A proposal to permit lawyers to refuse instructions on the grounds of personal beliefs would erode the “cab rank” rule, said the ADLS Courts Committee in its submission on the Draft Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers. The committee said that draft rule 3.1.1, which proposed allowing

LawFuel – Legal Newswire – The actor Paul Hogan, star of Crocodile Dundee, may have lost valuable financial and legal papers in a fire, in the midst of an Australian Crime Commission investigation into the affairs of a Swiss-based accountant. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that just minutes before 7pm on Wednesday, flames engulfed the

LAWFUEL – The New York Times reports that Arthur Bremer, the gunman who tried to kill Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, will be released from prison this year, a Maryland prison official said Thursday. In 1973, Mr. Bremer was sentenced to serve 53 years

LAWFUEL – The lead story in Lawfuel.com, from the VOA, reports on the 400th execution in Texas. Johnny Ray Conner was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday. The 32-year-old man was condemned in 1999 for the fatal shooting of a convenience store owner in Houston during a robbery.

SEATTLE–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Perkins Coie served as lead counsel to aQuantive, Inc. in its record-setting acquisition by Microsoft Corporation. In the largest acquisition in its history, Microsoft agreed to pay $66.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6 billion. “The expertise of the Perkins Coie team was invaluable on

OAKLAND – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that Frank J. Garza, Jr., pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud and money laundering. This guilty plea is the result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Garza., 44 of Emeryville, CA, was indicted by a

Image Consultant Suzanne Fahey Gives Tips On ‘The New You’ at Wellington seminar Wellington – Matchcompany.co.nz – The Personal Match Maker – The latest in Matchcompany’s seminar series in Wellington introduced Wellington image consultant Suzanne Fahey, who provided tips on how to improve your self image. Suzanne Fahey is a make-up artist and stylist who