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Attorney General Biondi Sues Companies for Computer Tech Support Scams

Featured / March 5, 2015

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office today announced the filing of four complaints involving deceptive marketing and sales of computer software and tech support services to Florida consumers, many of whom are senior citizens. The call centers, located in the Delray Beach and Boca Raton area, allegedly used deceptive marketing, such as pop up ads […]

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US Attorney Extradicts Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Accused From the UK

Featured / March 3, 2015

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Andrew G. McCabe, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington, D.C., Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the extradition of MINH QUANG PHAM, a/k/a “Amin,” from the United Kingdom. Pham, a Vietnamese national, was indicted in 2012

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New Samsung Galaxy S6 Review – The Quick Once-Over

Featured / March 2, 2015

The latest smart phone from Samsung always generates interest, so how good is the new Samsung Galaxy 56? The reviews we have seen in this new flagship phone from the smartphone giant has been almost as impressive as the phone looks itself. With a new design including a ‘Gorilla Glass’ screen front and rear, as

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The Best & Worst Days on Job for US Attorney Eric Holder

Featured / February 28, 2015

Retiring US Attorney General Eric Holder, interviewed by ABC, outlined his best and worst days on the job. Holder, 64, has had his ups and downs, and his share of controversies. WORST DAY ON THE JOB – The Sandy Hook shootings – Dec. 14, 2012: The day a 20-year-old opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary

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US Attorney Statement on Verdict in US v. Khaled Al Fawwaz

Featured / February 26, 2015

“As a unanimous jury has found, for nearly a decade, Khaled al Fawwaz played a critical role for al Qaeda in its murderous conspiracy against America. Dedicating himself to al Qaeda in the early 1990s, Fawwaz was one of Osama bin Laden’s original and most trusted lieutenants, serving first as the leader of an

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Quarter-Century Prison Terms for Men Plotting to Kill Americans in Afghanistan

Featured / February 24, 2015

RIVERSIDE, California – Two men with ties to the Inland Empire were each sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for participating in plots to provide material support to terrorists and to kill American personnel. The two men sentenced today by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips are: • Sohiel Omar Kabir, 37,

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Hogan Lovell’s Pro Bono Initiative

Featured / February 20, 2015

Lawyers Hogan Lovells have put in place what may be the first pro bono program for AMLaw 100 firms that involve not just their lawyers, but non-lawyers as well, to engage in community service work. Hogan Lovells employee over 5000 staff iin 25 countries and their proposal involves handling community service of 25 hours a

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Surrogancy Fraud: Surrogacy Agency Pleads Guilty to Ripping Off Would-Be Parents

Featured / February 20, 2015

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company pleaded guilty late this afternoon to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogates over the course of more than three years. Allison Layton, a 38-year-old resident of Star, Idaho, pleaded guilty before United States District

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Justin Bieber’s Egging Sentence Hobbled

Featured, LawStars / February 11, 2015

So how is poster Justin Bieber faring with his various legal issues, including his “egging” vandalism case? Were you wondering? Probably not, but for those who were Bieber’s attempts to complete his sentence have tripped up over an ankle injury he sustained during a soccer game, which delaye for owhich he An ankle injury has

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Challenge #3 To Obamacare: What Does it Mean?

Featured, US Law / February 10, 2015

It will be the third legal challenge to Obamacare and in an article in The Economist, there are some clear explanations as to the competing issues for those arguing about Obamacare. The issue as to the principle that the law is what is stated by the words themselves rather than what politicians think it should

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