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Former Holland & Knight partner admits bill padding, gets 90-day suspension

Holland & Knight
Former Holland & Knight partner, Edward Francis Ryan, has been suspended from practicing law for a period of 90 days for allegedly falsifying legal invoices in connection with the work he had provided to defend developer Pinnacle Corporation in a copyright infringement case over a 2-year period from August 2002 to December 2004.

Mass emailer sues Yahoo, Microsoft, etc for treating it as spammer

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Holomaxx Technologies Corp., a Can-Spam compliant bulk emailer, has accused Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco Ironport Systems and Return Path of breaching the wiretapping and other communications laws and wrongly blocking the mass emails it sends on behalf of its clients from reaching intended recipients.
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Hollywood studios sue DVD sanitizer, seek injunction

Several Hollywood studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros., MGM, Disney, Universal and Fox, have filed a lawsuit against DVD sanitizer Family Edited DVDS, Inc. and are seeking a permanent injunction to stop the company from altering movies to be free of objectionable content and distributing them to consumers as family-friendly.
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Internet Crime Complaint Center logs 2 million entries

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which was set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center in May 2000 to monitor and prevent cyber crime, recently logged its 2 millionth consumer complaint.
A home for sale is seen in Los Angeles, California

'Robo-signers' effect: U.S. foreclosures dip in Oct

Home foreclosures in the U.S. in October fell by 9 percent primarily because some major banks temporarily froze foreclosure proceedings and delayed sales of foreclosed properties nationwide after being criticized for shoddy paperwork, according to real estate data company RealtyTrac.
Zahra Baker: Where are you?

Zahra Baker: Where are you?

Police authorities in North Carolina are apprehensive that Zahra Baker, a 10-year old physically challenged Australian girl who has been missing for over a month, could have become the victim of some foul play after finding new evidence while searching an area called Gunpowder Creek.
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U.S. FDA proposes gory warning labels on cigarette packs

The next time you decide to light up a smoke, you may be greeted by an image of a cancer patient or even worse, a corpse, thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to put graphical warning labels on cigarette packs.
Metropolitan Washington Police Officers stand around a mobile crime lab in Rock Creek Park in Washington, May 22, 2002 and (inset) Chandra Levy

Chandra Levy murder trial Day 9: Prosecutors drop some charges, rest case

After a long gap, the trial of Ingmar Guandique, who has been accused of murdering federal intern Chandra Levy, resumed on Wednesday and took a sudden turn with the prosecutors resting their case after abruptly dropping two charges against Guandique because a prison inmate has refused to testify against him, even as a FBI forensic expert claimed he had found former Congressman Gary Condit's DNA on Levy's underwear.
Australia's Attorney General Robert McClelland (far left) and his U.S. counterpart Eric Holder (c) are seen at a Quintet meeting composed of the Attorneys General from the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. at the U.S. Justice Dept., Wash.

Australia in dilemma over deportation of Honeymoon Killer to the U.S.

Authorities in Australia, which is a staunch opponent of death penalty, are in a dilemma over whether they should deport Honeymoon Killer Gabe Watson, who completed serving his prison term in Australia on Wednesday, to Alabama, U.S., a pro-death penalty state that wants to try him again over his wife's death.

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