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...Strauss-Kahn was arrested, only to be released when the district attorney concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. Wigdor filed a civil lawsuit and obtained a financial settlement....
...Craig Stewart, former chief counsel to the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has rejoined Arnold & Porter’s white collar defence and investigations practice....
...Judge Denise Cote of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, who is presiding over the trial, issued a preliminary opinion last month that the government would be able to provide evidence...
...The E U looks set to eventually pass similar legislation....
...“We hope that during this time the district attorney will make the necessary decision to dismiss the case against Mr Strauss-Kahn,” said Benjamin Brafman and William Taylor....
...We have only heard the accusation, we are waiting for the other voice, that of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his lawyers,” she said after a midday gathering of senior party members to discuss the crisis....
...I checked and he was,” said one senior banker....
...“I disclosed material non-public information to Danielle Chiesi, a friend who I knew worked at a hedge fund,” Mr Moffat told Frank Maas, the judge in the federal southern district of New York court in Manhattan...
...He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court Professor Lessig is the author of Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004...
...Another name for this storytelling is “scenario building”, developed in the 1950s by Herman Kahn, a highly influential cold-war analyst at the RAND Corporation....
...Separately from the patent office process, a judge in a US district court had threatened RIM with an injunction to block its service, and to award damages to NTP, if the two sides could not resolve their...
...“I have a relative from Sichuan who came 15 years ago,” says Miles Lee, a senior research fellow at the state-funded China Development Institute in Shenzhen. “She now earns Rmb3,000-4,000 a month....
..., warns another, Aran Lawrence....
...Even the ne plus ultra of American public intellectuals, Richard Posner, senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago, former chief judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, declared...
...Judge James Robertson of the US District Court in Washington DC ruled that the trial of one of the few Guantánamo detainees facing a full military commission, Osama bin Laden’s chauffeur, Salim Ahmed Hamdan...
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