HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – The scenario facing lead paint manufacturers in Rhode Island resembled the litigation nightmares of most American businesses. The defendants faced a state attorney general represented by contingent-fee lawyers. The plaintiffs’ lawyers wielded a vague but public-spirited legal theory to which juries could readily relate. The “victims” described at trial were hundreds of […]

Washington, D.C., July 25, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed an emergency action to freeze the assets of one or more unknown purchasers of the call options for the common stock of DRS Technologies, Inc. and American Power Conversion Corp., alleging that they reaped more than $3 million in profits by

NEW YORK, July 25, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP (www.pomerantzlaw.com) reminds investors of MRV Communications Inc. (“MRV” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:MRVC) that September 8, 2008 is the deadline to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff in the class action. Pomerantz filed a class action lawsuit against MRV

DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Tobias Archuleta, born in 1985, of Jefferson County, was charged by Criminal Complaint late yesterday with armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Troy Eid and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced today. Archuleta is scheduled to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Denver at 1:30 pm this

July 23, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Chadbourne & Parke represented The Mattone Group in the approximately $100 million acquisition of the Roosevelt Raceway Center in Westbury, N.Y. The Mattone Group purchased the property from ING Clarion Partners, a Manhattan-based investment arm of a Dutch financial company. ING had owned the center

Brussels and London – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Allen & Overy LLP today announced that it is advising Centrica plc on the increase of its shareholding in the Belgian generation and supply company SPE SA to a controlling 51 per cent, significantly boosting Centrica’s market presence in Belgium. Completion of the acquisition is

LAWFUEL- Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that defendants Joanna Delfel, Victor Garcia, and Sylvia Oramas, three former employees of Kendall Regional Medical Center (“KRMC”), a full-service hospital located in

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL- Legal Newswire – A federal grand jury in Jacksonville, Fla., indicted a former Florida State Prison correctional officer on federal civil rights charges related to an August 2005 assault on an inmate, the Justice Department announced today. Paul Tillis was charged with violating the civil rights of the inmate by intentionally pouring

NEW YORK, July 24, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Roy Jacobs & Associates announces that it is investigating Zimmer Holdings Inc. (“Zimmer” or the “Company”, NYSE:ZMH) for securities law and other violations in light of the revelation on July 23, 2008 that high rates of repeat surgery involving one of its key products, the Durom Cup hip

The Federal Reserve’s decisions to offer credit to its 18 primary dealers — and to extend these credit facilities to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, complementing the recent Treasury proposal for authority to back their debt and buy their equity — are highly unusual. Because they break with the norm that markets should decide which