LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Federal and local authorities this morning arrested 10 members and associates of two powerful “cliques” of the notorious 18th Street Gang on federal racketeering and narcotics charges that allege the gangmembers used violence and intimidation to control the narcotics trade in the Mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Pico-Union and MacArthur Park areas […]

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced that his office will file a motion to intervene in a case before the Florida Public Service Commission seeking approximately $143 million in rebates for customers of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. The motion to intervene is in support of a petition

Hong Kong – September 12, 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The international law firm of Jones Day announced that it has recently advised Fang Brothers Investments Limited in the HK$1.14 billion sale by subsidiary CS Investment (CS) of a 50% interest in Times Supermarket Limited (Times) to Wumart Stores, Inc.(Wumart), Beijing’s largest supermarket

Santa Barbara resident John Peter Yunka, 56, was arrested Monday in Santa Barbara for his involvement with the promotion of investments that falsely promised extremely high returns with little or no risk to principal. Yunka falsely represented to prospective investors that he had access to certain offshore opportunities that paid yields ranging from 3 percent

Leading Jurists to Talk About Guantanamo, Secret Jails, Military Commissions and the War on Terror NEW YORK, September 12 /PRNewswire/ — WHO The Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, an independent body of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, will be talking to the press after concluding a three-day public hearing in

London, September 11, 2006 – Paul Hastings, a premier international law firm, has advised Addax Petroleum Corporation in connection with the financing aspects of its acquisition of two subsidiaries of Pan-Ocean Energy Corporation Limited, together representing substantially all of the operations of Pan-Ocean Energy, for $1.605 billion in cash. Both transactions are expected to close

Paul Hastings Bolsters International IP Practice With Addition of Prominent Patent Litigation Lawyers in New York New York, NY (September 12, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Law News & Law Jobs Network – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that Joseph O’Malley and Bruce Wexler,

LAWFUEL – Law News Daily – Chen Palmer has strengthened its government relations capability with the appointment of two former Cabinet Ministers – the Hon Jim Sutton and the Rt Hon Wyatt Creech – as consultants. Chen Palmer Partner, Mai Chen, said the appointments were a coup and would secure Chen Palmer’s status as New

Tuesday 12 September 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Mr Jeffrey Lucy, today welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into between ASIC and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). The MOU, signed by Mr Lucy and Mr David Knott, Chief Executive

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced today that a Miami jury returned a guilty verdict against defendant Victor Calles on charges of kidnapping, in violation of Title