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Federal District Court Opinions IRWIN v. WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, INC., (D.C. 2006) NANCY R. IRWIN AND OLIVIER MISSA, Plaintiffs, v. WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, INC. Defendant. Civ. No. 05-1287 (EGS). United States District Court, D. Columbia. August 22, 2006 MEMORANDUM OPINION EMMET SULLIVAN, District Judge Plaintiffs, Nancy Irwin and Olivier Missa, filed this action against defendant, […]

Effective legal services are vital for doing business in China and the United States. WORLD Law Direct offers an experienced team of American and Chinese legal professionals in both China and the United States dedicated exclusively to China law matters. Our team has extensive in-country experience advising U.S., Chinese and European clients on investment, trade […]

Seed International, Ltd., Ocean International Marketing, Architects of Wine, Ltd. – Internet and Investment Fraud Case Update April 15, 2007: Further criminal law investigations in Architects of Wine fraud. A delegation of Dutch justice officials arrived in Cape Town to grill two local businessmen accused of fraud. Sean Stockdale, a Milnerton property developer, and Craig Garrett, […]

Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Peter Edgware. I work at a well-known Security Company in the UK. I am writing with a financial proposal that I hope will interest you. As you are undoubtedly aware, King Fahd bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia died on the August 1 2005 at the age of 84. Please […]

From Liberation to the Shanghai Communiqu?© As the PLA armies moved south to complete the communist conquest of China in 1949, the American Embassy followed the Nationalist government headed by Chiang Kai-shek, finally moving to Taipei later that year. U.S. consular officials remained in mainland China. The new P.R.C. Government was hostile to this official […]

The State Department’s annual China human rights reports have noted China’s well-documented abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms, stemming both from the authorities’ intolerance of dissent and the inadequacy of legal safeguards for basic freedoms. Abuses reported have included arbitrary and lengthy incommunicado detention, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners […]