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Tomorrow, the Federal Court will hear one of the most important constitutional appeals in recent times: Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin v Dr Zambry Abd Kadir. While many readers are familiar with the facts leading to this appeal, it is useful to recapitulate the...
AT&T Inc is suing Verizon Wireless in an effort to stop its bigger mobile rival from using "misleading" coverage maps in advertisements that AT&T says are causing it to lose "incalculable market share." According to the lawsuit which AT&T filed in Atlanta...
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David Friehling, 49, had to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. He is the third person to plead guilty in the multi-billion dollar fraud. The accountant, who served as Madoff's outside auditor since 1991, confessed to US District Judge Alvin...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, pleading guilty, Bernard L. Madoff, auditor pleading, David Friehling, U.S, ponzi scheme, securities fraud, Colma, federal court
Federal Court has agreed to review a decision by Ottawa to bar a controversial British member of Parliament from entering Canada. George Galloway says he's "delighted" by the decision and will argue his case, likely in January. Continued Below In March,...
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A New York City imam accused of tipping off a suspected al Qaeda-trained militant that he was under investigation pleaded not guilty on Monday to lying to the FBI. Ahmad Wais Afzali was arrested in September as part of a probe in which federal prosecutors...
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The lawyer tracking down money lost in what authorities say was an extensive Ponzi scheme run by R. Allen Stanford says he hopes to gain control of more than $1.5 billion that would be then returned to burned investors. Court-appointed receiver Ralph...
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A dozen lawyers sat in the Federal Court and watched a six-foot-four Belgian as he was passed a Vegemite sandwich and poured a pair of frothy beers. Toes tapped and grins spread across otherwise dour faces as music videos and recordings of the hit song...
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Hosam Smadi, the 19-year-old Jordanian caught in an FBI sting trying to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper, is expected to enter a plea today in federal court...District Judge Barbara Lynn on charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction,...
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The Federal Court has fined two companies and three individuals almost $16 million for breaches of the Spam Act. It follows the first ever court action taken against those sending unwanted text messages. The case was brought by the Australian Communications...
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Centro Properties was one of the first high profile victims of the credit crisis, and an early case study about the dangers of bad timing and excessive debt...Today, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission pounced on seven of Centro's current...
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