New York – LAWFUEL – Law & Business – October 6, 2006 – Debevoise & …

New York – LAWFUEL – Law & Business – October 6, 2006 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Ripplewood Holdings and Oak Hill Capital Management in a definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in RSC Equipment Rental from Atlas Copco. The aggregate transaction value is approximately $3.4 billion, plus up to $400 million […]

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LawFuel.com – UK Law & Entertainment Law News – LawFuel.com’s Hot File…

LawFuel.com – UK Law & Entertainment Law News – LawFuel.com’s Hot Files reports from The Times that the barrister who represented The Beatles’ Apple Corporation in its unsuccessful High Court fight against Apple computers has been elected as the new chairman of the Bar Council. About LawFuel.com LawFuel.com reports on UK Law and worldwide law

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LawFuel – Law News Service – LawFuel’s lead story reports on a watersh…

LawFuel – Law News Service – LawFuel’s lead story reports on a watershed legal battle being prepared by Google as it subpoenas information from rivals like Yahoo! and Amazon on book scanning projects in litigation that promises to be a major copyright law case. About LawFuel.com LawFuel.com is the Net’s largest pure-law news network, providing

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Google is gearing for what could be a watershed legal battle with the global book publishing community and has issued to subpoenas to major publishers, as well as rivals Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft, requesting information about their book scanning projects.

The search leader has made it clear that it wants to index all of the works in print, including copyrighted works. Under Google’s plans, web users would be able to view snippets of the contents of copyrighted works, in a similar way that Amazon enables visitors to browse portions of selected titles. However, Amazon and

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LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP marked its 7…

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP marked its 75th anniversary on October 1, 2006. Founded by Eli Whitney Debevoise and William Stevenson in 1931, the firm now has more than 630 lawyers in eight cities throughout the world. “Our 75th anniversary gives us a special opportunity to reflect upon the growth

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Nearly Four Dozen Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Credit, Sk…

Nearly Four Dozen Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Credit, Skimming Credit Cards, and Negotiating Stolen Checks and Credit Cards LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Formed to combat a pressing white-collar crime problem, the Orange County Identity Theft Task Force has charged nearly four dozen identity thieves who targeted the mails, banks, mortgage companies, stores and

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Three years after John Lennon was assassinated, Morrison & Foerster partner Dan Marmalefsky launched a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation to uncover the Nixon administration’s plan to deport the famous Beatle. Twenty-three years later, he’s still digging.

A white-collar defense attorney in Los Angeles, Marmalefsky leads a team of three lawyers, pro bono, that represents a University of California, Irvine history professor, who, since 1983, has sought the release of FBI documents related to its surveillance of Lennon in the early 1970s. What started out as a compelling freedom-of-information challenge for a

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SAN FRANCISCO LAWFUEL – Law News Network – United States Attor…

SAN FRANCISCO LAWFUEL – Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted a former contract employee in the procurement office of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), on public-corruption charges. Steven Donnelly is charged with selling confidential bid information to a competing

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ATLANTA – October 6 – Rick Horder has been selected as a 2006 Angels i…

ATLANTA – October 6 – Rick Horder has been selected as a 2006 Angels in AdoptionTM award recipient. Congressman John Lewis nominated Mr. Horder as a 2006 Angels in AdoptionTM for his outstanding advocacy of adoption and foster care. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which oversees the Angels in AdoptionTM program, held a

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