LAWFUEL – Law News Network – A Los Angeles con man with a long string of fraud convictions has pleaded guilty to trying to extort $50,000 from an attorney whose brother is serving a life prison sentence for murder by claiming to have information that could exonerate the convicted killer. Steven Robert Comisar, 44, who

Ocala, FL – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Today Wesley Trent Snipes made his initial appearance and was arraigned before the Honorable Gary R. Jones, United States Magistrate Judge. Snipes pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial is scheduled for March 2007. The court also ordered Snipes released pending trial, requiring him to

LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – Law News Network –“By requiring offenders to register any email address they use and aggregating that information in a database, websites that choose to block sex offenders can do so and law enforcement will have new tools to employ against predators who attempt to misuse the Internet to find potential victims. The

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.– LAWFUEL – Law News Network –A Chicago man, who was accused of developing and distributing software designed to steal DIRECTV® programming, has agreed to a $1 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against him in federal court by DIRECTV, Inc., and NDS Americas, Inc., the creator of security features used to protect

Dealer Named in Meade Instruments Lawsuit Agrees to Cease False Claims of the RCX400 and LX200R Meade Telescopes as Having Advanced “Ritchey-Chrétien” Design Star Instruments and RC Optical Systems Reach Settlement Agreement with Washington-Based Anacortes Telescope and Wild Bird, Inc. in Exchange for Dismissing Them as a Defendant in the Suit NEW YORK– LAWFUEL –

HOUSTON– LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network –Bracewell & Giuliani LLP: Visual/Interview Opportunities 9 – 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 12 Volunteers distribute gifts at Grimes Elementary School cafeteria, 9220 Jutland Street (Access cafeteria from the parking lot off Jutland) 9 – 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13 Volunteers distribute gifts at Petersen Elementary School cafeteria,

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – On Tuesday 12 December the European Court of Justice will deliver a decision on whether the UK’s system of taxing dividends paid by foreign subsidiaries to UK parent companies is incompatible with the EC Treaty. The case, called the FII Group Litigation case, concerns the basic question of discrimination.

This message is from Steve Cole – Public Affairs U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Florida Later today we will issue a press release with details on the arrest of Wesley Snipes his initial appearance in Federal Court in Ocala, Florida. I can confirm that Mr. Snipes flew in from overseas and voluntarily surrendered to

LawFuel.com’s lead story, from CNN Money – If you’ve ever trash-talked about the U.S. patent system–and who hasn’t?–you should be following closely the U.S. Supreme Court argument in KSR v. Teleflex. It could generate the most important patent ruling in decades.