LAWFUEL – US Law Newswire – A newspaper, the movie studio and the advertising company that installed bomb-like devices on newspaper racks during a promotional campaign for Mission: Impossible III have paid $75,000 to resolve claims that they acted negligently. Los Angeles Times Communications, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Allied Advertising earlier this month paid […]

LAWFUEL – US Attorney Newswire – A Santa Maria oil refining company has been charged with violating the Safe Drinking Water Act for pumping refinery-generated wastewater into the ground, a practice that risks contaminating groundwater supplies. Two current and one former company employees have been charged with lying to investigators with the United States Environmental

Washington, D.C., April 12, 2007 – The Commission released the following statement on the death of former Commissioner J. Carter Beese, Jr.: The Commission notes with great sadness the death on Sunday, April 8th, of J. Carter Beese, Jr., who served as a Commissioner from March 10, 1992, to November 14, 1994. While at the

One Lender’s Moves To Help New Zealanders understand what they are being charged by breaking down the confusion employed by finance companies and banks to hide complicated fees Wellington, 13 April 2007 – Perweek.co.nz – A small finance company has laid down a challenge to major banks and finance companies to tidy up their act

DENVER – LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – Troy A. Eid, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, and Terry L. Stuart, Special Agent In Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation, Denver Field Office, announced that a federal grand jury in Denver has indicted GORDON DALE SANCHEZ, age 52, of Arvada, Colorado, on one count of

April 12, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Australia Law – The College of Law recently celebrated the opening of its Perth office to offer Western Australian lawyers and graduates the very best in Practical Legal Training (PLT). At present, the College’s Professional Program enables law graduates to satisfy the requirements for admission as legal practitioners in

LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP (Blakes) ranks number one by deal count for announced Canadian transactions on the Bloomberg and Thomson Financial M&A league tables for the first quarter of 2007. Blakes also ranks 10th on the announced global transaction list by deal count on the Bloomberg tables, ahead

LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – A settlement of a royalties dispute between Apple Corp and EMI Group may lead to the famous band’s music being made available online. EMI Group Plc, the world’s third- largest music label, settled a royalties dispute with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd., in an agreement analysts said may lead to

COLCHESTER, Conn., April 12, 2007 LAWFUEL – Class Actions Newswire — In a release issued earlier, the Class Period should have been April 4, 2006 to August 1, 2006, inclusive, rather than April 26, 2006 as originally issued. The corrected version follows. On April 10, 2007, Scott+Scott, LLP, filed a class action against CheckFree Corp.