HOUSTON– LAWFUEL – US Legal News –Federated Kaufmann Small Cap Fund a New York-based mutual fund owning 900,000 shares of the common stock of EGL, Inc. (NASDAQ:EAGL), an international logistics and transportation company headquartered in Houston, today filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed buyout of EGL by James R. Crane, EGL’s Chairman and CEO, together […]

Auckland, April 1 (JY&A Media) Christchurch’s Laural Barrett, Miss The Edge Christchurch, won Miss Universe New Zealand 2007 at the Langham Hotel, Auckland, last night. Miss Barrett will go to Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City, and takes home prizes with a value of NZ$25,000. Sylvia Laurenson (Miss Boulgaris.com) and Jessica Body (Miss Asta Club

TORONTO, April 1 /CNW/ – WHAT: Video of the WrestleMania(R) 23 “Hair vs. Hair” match between business icon Donald Trump and WWE(R) Chairman Vince McMahon will be available to media via satellite on Monday, April 2 at 12:15am ET, 4am ET, and 10:45am ET. Included in the satellite feed package will be footage of the

LawFuel.com – Beyonce Knowles has won a legal battle against a former business associate, Greg Walker of Icon Entertainment, after his $1.5 million lawsuit accusing the singer of shortchanging him on a deal involving her House of Dereon clothing line, was thrown out of court. Walker sued the Irreplaceable star for reportedly cutting him out

LawFuel – New Zealand Law – The decision of the Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings, to decline an application for leave from the Society to have the R18 classification of a sexually explicit video featuring actors “pretending to be police officers” using police batons as “sex toys” (dildos) reclassified; is further evidence that he has

LawFuel.com – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – Aussie lawyer (remember ‘Spycatcher’?)turned investment banker turned Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull has explained his perplexity at the delay taken by David Hicks’ lawyers to to a plea bargain deal. “As a lawyer the thing that I find interesting is that Hicks’ lawyers did not seek to get a deal

LawFuel – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has spent the past year trying to back away from the metastasizing stock option backdating mess, but an internal e-mail now in regulators’ hands is making it difficult. In a 2004 message, Wilson Sonsini lawyer Roger Stern asks his partner to dig up a document from the time

LawFuel – Law News Network – The David Hicks war-crimes trial drew outrage Saturday from legal experts who described it as a perversion of the rule of law that may fatally discredit the Pentagon’s already disparaged handling of terrorism suspects. Australian detainee David Hicks, whom prosecutors cast as a highly trained and dangerous Al Qaeda