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Media Advisory - Attorney General to announce new support for Aboriginal community
Globe Investor - 9 Hours ago
TORONTO, Aug. 27 /CNW/ - Attorney General Chris Bentley, along with Mike Brown, MPP Algoma-Manitoulin, will make an announcement about new support for Aboriginal community justice on Manitoulin Island.

/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Attorney General to announce new support for Aboriginal Globe Investor

/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Attorney General to launch Justice Ontario/ Globe Investor

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France: Changes to French Competition Rules - Mayer Brown
Mondaq - 18 Hours ago
Keywords: Law on the Modernisation of the Economy, L.M.E., French competition, merger regulations, Competition Authority, Autorit de la concurrence, The Law on the Modernisation of the Economy (L.M.E.) Add Comment

New York attorney general confirms probe into Goldman, Fidelity
Canadian Business Magazine - 7 Hours ago
Fidelity said about 600 to 700 accounts out of some eight million customers held auction-rate securities. Ann Crowley, a spokeswoman for the company, said there was 'no financial incentive for Fidelity

New York Attorney General Cuomo Reaches Landmark Agreement With Major Energy Company, Mondo Visione

New York attorney general's office confirms auction-rate probe into Goldman Sachs, Hartford Courant

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Clifford Chance Bolsters India Capital Markets Practice
LegalTimes.com - 8/26/2008
Clifford Chance has recruited capital markets partner Rahul Guptan from Indian law firm . Guptan will join Clifford's Singapore The hire follows the Magic Circle firm's launch of a securities and capital Add Comment

Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip to Hold Press Conference on Corporate Charging
Breitbart.com - 9 Hours ago
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following event was announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice: Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip will hold a press conference on the Department's Add Comment

Allen & Overy (A&O) has bolstered its China offering with the hire of the former
Legal Week - 9 Hours ago
China office hire - Legal Week, legal news, comment, events and legal jobs Search LegalWeek.com A&O taps Cadwalader for China office hire Author: Jeremy Hodges & Nate Raymond Published: 26/08/2008 Add Comment

Crime & Punishment

4 inmates accused of helping in jailbreak
MSNBC - 3 Hours ago
CLOVIS, N.M. - Four jail inmates who authorities say helped eight others make a brazen escape were charged Wednesday, as officials kept up the search for the five prisoners who remain on the loose, including

4 inmates accused of helping with NM jailbreak KVIA.com

4 inmates accused of helping with N.M. jailbreak USA Today

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Prosecutors seek to slash Abramoff prison term
USA Today - 4 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Wednesday recommended a dramatic reduction in the prison sentence of imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who became the key witness against lawmakers and congressional

US prosecutors seek to slash lobbyist prison term Macro World Investor

New: Prosecutors seek to slash Abramoff prison term KEPR-TV

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Fla. jury acquits man of songwriter shooting
Forbes.com - 5 Hours ago
A jury acquitted a former handyman of attempted murder charges Wednesday in last year's near-fatal shooting of Latin songwriter Estefano, who had positively identified the man in court as his assailant.

Florida jury acquits man of songwriter shooting Calibre Macro World

[08/27] Fla. jury acquits man of songwriter shooting FindLaw AP International News Canada

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Death sentence for man who kidnapped Idaho kids and murdered 1 of them after killing
Los Angeles Times - 4 Hours ago
BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some

Death Sentence for Idaho Child's Killer ABC News

Duncan Gets Death Penalty for Murder of... ABC News

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Titan prisons a 'massive mistake'
Ananova - 79 Minutes ago
Pressing ahead with plans to build three huge 'Titan' prisons would be a 'costly and hugely damaging mistake', the Government has been warned. The 2,500-place jails would do little or nothing to cut crime

Titan prisons a 'massive mistake' Boston Standard

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US Army continues Iraq murder conspiracy hearing
Washington Post - 2 Hours ago
VILSECK, Germany -- A military panel took evidence Wednesday in a hearing aimed at determining whether two U.S. soldiers should face a court-martial in the deaths of four Iraqi men last year. Authorities

Army investigates alleged Iraq murder pact Army Times

US Army probes alleged Iraq murder conspiracy Jerusalem Post

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IP and patents

Microsoft, Nikon In Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement - Update
RTTNews.com - 3 Hours ago
(RTTNews) - Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: News ) and Nikon Corp., have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement for the advancement and development of their current and future product lines, especially

Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal CNET News.com

Microsoft signs Patent Cross-Licensing deal with Nikon - quick facts RTTNews.com

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Stance on Music Piracy Toughens
Wall Street Journal Online - 54 Minutes ago
Signaling what could be a more aggressive stance in the fight against online music piracy, the Federal Add Comment

FBI Arrests Alleged California Music Pirate
Wired News - 2 Hours ago
There's been a lot of debate on Threat Level recently about what's a federal crime and what is not when it comes to file sharing copyrighted music on the internet. A 27-year-old California man, Kevin Add Comment

Tomatolei.com's Founder Seized For Software Piracy
ChinaTechNews.com - 3 Hours ago
Hong Lei, the webmaster of Chinese download website Tomatolei.com and writer of Windows XP Tomato Edition, reportedly has been taken into custody by the Suzhou Public Security Bureau. Tomatolei.com was Add Comment

Surfware Receives OK from US Patent Office
Tool-Moldmaking - 61 Minutes ago
The US-based CAD/CAM developer Surfware Inc. has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its engagement milling technology, which has been incorporated into Add Comment

Intellectual property will increase Nigeria's GDP-ADEWOPO
Vanguard - 76 Minutes ago
Mr Adewopo, spoke on Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Legal Practice in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects at the on-going Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual/delegate conference in Abuja. Add Comment

Online legal issues

Windows XP Piracy Badgering Set To Begin
Computer Reseller News Australia - 112 Minutes ago
Microsoft is altering the Windows Geniune Advantage anti-piracy mechanism in XP Professional to match the WGA notification process of Vista service pack 1. Microsoft this week plans to update the Windows Add Comment

Online bookstore sued for selling illegal books
EastDay - 113 Minutes ago
The popular Chinese-language online bookstore Dangdang.com was sued with selling illegally published books at a court hearing held in Beijing yesterday. Zhang Hongru, president of the Beijing-based Tuanjie

Dangdang.com sued for selling illegal books SINA

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Do RIAA Snoops Need P.I. Licenses?
Wired News - 10 Hours ago
By now, we all know how the Recording Industry Association of America nabs alleged file sharers, more than 20,000 lawsuits and counting: Hired snoops from MediaSentry -- aka SafeNet -- log onto Kazaa,

Do RIAA Snoops Need PI Licenses? Wired News

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RIAA nears win (by default) in Atlantic vs. Howell
Los Angeles Times - 16 Hours ago
So much for that one. A federal judge in Arizona has all but dispensed with an intriguing legal battle between the Recording Industry Assn. of America and an accused music infringer, ruling that the defendant Add Comment

Microsoft readies new Windows XP Pro anti-piracy nag
NZ PC World - 6 Hours ago
Microsoft today said it will update the anti-piracy software in Windows XP Professional to make nagging more prominent for those running bogus copies and -- assuming the user approves the update -- to

Microsoft readies new Windows XP Pro antipiracy nag Computerworld

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UK law

Special constable ad banned for drugs slur to newsagents
Workplace Law Network - 86 Minutes ago
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned a press recruitment advert run by the National Policing Improvement Agency following concerns that it inaccurately implied local newsagents’ involvement Add Comment

Developer in row over six Mansfield bedsits
Mansfield Chad - 3 Hours ago
A DEVELOPER says he will take legal advice after councillors demanded he return a revamped Mansfield home to its former state. Mr B. Wardle put in a retrospective application to planning chiefs to change

Mansfield News Developer in row over six Mansfield bedsits A DEVELOPER says he will Mansfield Chad

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Consultation On Flexible Working
Happyfamiliesonline.com - 5 Hours ago
The Government will explore ways to make dealing with flexible working requests easier for businesses, as part of a consultation published today (Tuesday 26th August). The consultation follows on from

Making flexible working requests 'easier' to handle Norwich Union Risk Services

Government consults on flexible working Localgov.co.uk

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ABA Gives Thumbs Up to Legal Outsourcing
Global Services - 14 Hours ago
The American Bar Association (ABA) has waded into the debate over legal outsourcing with an ethics opinion blessing the outsourcing trend as 'a salutary one for our globalized economy' Add Comment

British Virgin Islands: Accessory Civil Liability - Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors
Mondaq - 7 Hours ago
Civil Conspiracy. Under English law, an actionable conspiracy consists of a combination or confederacy between two or more persons, formed for the purpose of (a) committing an unlawful or criminal act,

British Virgin Islands: The Fundamentals Of A Civil Asset Recovery Action - Part Mondaq

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Poland: ZUS And NFZ To Interpret Social And Health Insurance Regulations - CMS Cameron
Mondaq - 12 Hours ago
the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) and the National Health Fund (NFZ) will give businesses interpretations of social and health insurance regulations as they apply to current or future events. Currently, Add Comment



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