HAYWARD, Calif.-LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. (OTC:IPXL) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that Aventis Pharmaceutical’s patent 5,527,814 related to the use of Rilutek® for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is not invalid on the […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael E. Yasofsky, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, announced today the conviction of defendant Stephen J. Short, Jr. following a three day trial in Fort Pierce, Florida. Short was convicted of four

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A Boston-based buyout firm is suing Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw for $245 million in damages for allegedly helping Refco Inc defraud investors. Thomas H. Lee Partners, a closely held buyout firm, sued Mayer, Brown over the law firm’s representation of the defunct futures trader Refco Inc Bloombergs report.

OAKLAND – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, former U.S. Postal Service employee Darren Timothy Hercules, 39, of Oakland, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for assaulting U.S. Postal Police officers. Judge Wilken also sentenced Hercules to three years of supervised release,

July 27, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Kaye Scholer LLP represented PlattForm Holdings, Inc., a leading Internet marketing and enrollment solutions provider to the post-secondary education industry, in its acquisitions of VentureDirect Worldwide, Inc. and Zuma, LLC. VentureDirect has been a leading marketing services firm for 25 years, providing lead generation and

PERUVIAN KINGPIN AND HIS WIFE INDICTED R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Michael E. Yasofsky, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced today the Indictment of Fernando Melciades Zevallos Gonzalez, who was previously

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The former chief executive of Qwest Communications International Joseph Nacchio, was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison and ordered to forfeit $52 million in stock gains from insider trading, Reuters reports. Nacchio was fined an additional $19 million in the case presided over by U.S. District Judge

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – IUSLAW Participants Kick Off Intensive Four-Week Program at Pepper Hamilton LLP Reception Washington, DC – July 25, 2007 – Pepper Hamilton LLP recently hosted a reception for foreign lawyer participants of the annual “U.S. Legal Methods Introduction to U.S. Law” program conducted by the Institute for U.S. Law (IUSLAW)

LAWFUEL – Washington, D.C., July 25, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously in favor of a new auditing standard and other measures to increase the accuracy of financial reports while reducing unnecessary costs, especially for smaller public companies. The Commission expects the new auditing standard, in combination with the Commission’s new