October 22, 2008 (Mountain View, CA) LAWFUEL – Fenwick & West today announced it has won a motion to dismiss, with prejudice, all copyright, trademark and related claims asserted by the MKR Group, holder of the rights in the 1979 horror film George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, against its longtime client Capcom, a […]
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DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Ten members or associates of the Mongols Outlaw Motorcycle Gang were arrested today by the ATF and Metro Gang Task Force, United States Attorney Troy Eid and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Richard Chase announced today. The arrests were based on sealed indictments returned by a federal
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) –– The Internal Revenue Service announced the appointments of Christopher Wagner as the commissioner of the agency’s Small Business and Self Employed Division (SB/SE), and Faris Fink as the deputy commissioner. SB/SE is one of four operating divisions of the IRS, has about 28,000 employees and serves roughly 55 million taxpayers. SB/SE is
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) –– The Internal Revenue Service today announced a strong turnout by corporate taxpayers seeking to settle Lease-In/Lease-Out (LILO) and Sale-in/Sale-Out (SILO) transactions. More than two-thirds of corporations that received the LILO/SILO settlement offer have decided to accept the offer to participate in the initiative. Those accepting the offer had more than 80 percent
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http://lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=19765 October 21, 2008 (by Ehline Law) – According to reports by California motorcycle lawyers, over 1,000 federal agents along with local police raided and arrested members of the Mongols motorcycle gang in California and five other states. Many of the members arrested were arrested on charges of racketeering. Members of the motorcycle gang were
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LawFuel – Legal Announcements – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of BRET A. GREBOW, co-manager and trader of an investment fund known as HMC International LLC (“HMC”), for defrauding investors of more than $7 million. GREBOW pleaded guilty before United States
LawFuel – Legal Jobs Online – The Canadian bid to buy Auckland International Airport, the Russian acquisition of New Zealand Dairies Ltd and American pop star Shania Twain’s purchase of Motatapu Station and Mt Soho station near Wanaka. Sound familiar? That’s probably because these overseas investment applications for New Zealand businesses and land received widespread
LawFuel Legal Announcements – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Alex Hager, Acting Commissioner for the State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, and Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced today that defendant
TORONTO, October 21, 2008 – LawFuel Legal Announcements – After months of deliberation, Canada’s Federal Court released a decision late yesterday regarding the Government of Canada’s alleged violation of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA), a federal law that required Canada to take specific action to meet binding international commitments to fight climate change. The
A journalism student from northern Afghanistan has had his controversial death sentence for blasphemy commuted to 20 years in jail. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 24, was sent to prison in October 2007 after reportedly downloading material from the internet on women’s rights in Islam. A court is his home city of Mazar-e-Sharif condemned him to death.
