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RAIN 0316 Weekly Update: Litigation (12)



Business First of Louisville 3/8/02
Contempt finding recommended for Pizza Magia
Cynthia Eagles Business First Staff Writer
A federal magistrate judge issued a recommendation March 5 that Pizza Magia
International LLC be found in civil contempt of court for failing to comply with a
federal judge's order in 2001 that it turn over all its training and operations manuals
in a federal trademark lawsuit brought against it by Papa John's International Inc.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James D. Moyer in Louisville said Pizza Magia's decision to
turn over only an amended operations manual in April 2001 showed a "disrespect
for the direct orders of the trial court."
http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/03/11/story4.html



Los Angeles Times 3/11/02
IRS Targets Records of Credit Card Companies
By RYAN J. DONMOYER, BLOOMBERG NEWS
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service's recent success in gaining access to the accounts of tax evaders who use American Express and MasterCard to spend money banked in offshore accounts may lead to requests for similar information from other credit card companies, tax experts said.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000017914mar11.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness



Houston Chronicle 3/12/02
Enron turns over asset documents in county inquiry
By STEVE BREWER and ERIC BERGER
Enron Corp. has given Harris County prosecutors records of a subsidiary's ownership of at least $15 million in high-tech telecommunications equipment, an asset it had failed to declare as taxable property.
In a related development, a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Monday gave Enron approval to shut down its Enron Broadband Services' 18,000-mile fiber-optic data network.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1291266



Deseret News 3/12/02
Will Trib suit filings be opened?
By Angie Welling
Deseret News staff writer
The campaign by a handful of Utah media outlets to unseal confidential documents in the ongoing litigation over ownership of the Salt Lake Tribune may not yet be over.
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,375015558,00.html?



Law.com 3/13/02
Deposition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Son Sealed in CBS Suit
R. Robin McDonald
Fulton County Daily Report
A federal judge who presided over the copyright case between CBS and the family of Martin Luther King Jr. has ordered the deposition of King's son, Dexter Scott King, sealed for five years.
U.S. Senior District Judge William C. O'Kelley issued a similar order for the deposition of the King estate's general manager, Phillip Jones.
The depositions are included in federal case files of the now-settled King v. CBS, No. 1:96-cv-3052 (N.D. Ga. Feb. 15, 2002).
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTCo...e&showsummary=0&useoverridetemplate=ZZZHCC0Q95C



Rocky Mountain News 3/13/02
Qwest guards records
Urgent memo warns company managers to keep documents related to probe, suits
By Jeff Smith, News Staff Writer
Qwest Communications International Inc.'s chief attorney on Monday issued an "urgent" memo to managers warning them to keep all documents that may be relevant to a pending regulatory probe and stockholder lawsuits.
"As you will see . . . the categories of documents to be retained are very broad," wrote Drake Tempest, Qwest general counsel. "If you do not retain the documents described in the attached memo, you could be the subject of civil and criminal liability and discipline including termination."
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_1027500,00.html



AP 3/14/02
Qwest Defends Managers Memo
DENVER - Qwest Communications International defended a top executive's memorandum that warned managers not to destroy documents relating to a shareholder lawsuit and an SEC inquiry.
Qwest spokesman Tyler Gronbach said Wednesday that the memo from Drake Tempest, Qwest's general counsel and executive vice president, was a precautionary measure.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020313/ap_on_bi_ge/qwest_memo_1



The Times-Record 3/13/02
E-mail trail in Harpswell
Elizabeth_Dorsey@TimesRecord.Com
03/13/2002
HARPSWELL — Debbie Levensailor, the town's planning assistant who has been placed on paid administrative leave until March 25, for months has been providing information and documents to Leo Blair, who is suing the town for more than $3 million, according to copies of e-mails she sent from the town office.
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/ne.../E893776415D0D24B85256B7B005F9CC3?Opendocument


Star Tribune 3/14/02
Feds seize plumbers' union files, question city official
Deborah Caulfield Rybak and Rochelle Olson
Federal officials have seized records from a Minneapolis union as part of a grand
jury investigation into aspects of the plumbing trade, including records about
property owned by City Council Member Joe Biernat.
A six-hour, multi-agent search of the office of the Plumbers Local 15 last week
also sought records pertaining to matters between the union, the Minneapolis City
Council, the city's Licenses and Inspections Department and its plumbers
examining board. The warrant also requested information about four area plumbing
companies -- listed as Ventco Appliance, Norblom Plumbing, Jack Seitz Plumbing,
and Fignar Plumbing -- and their owners.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/2008184.html



Cottonwood County Citizen 3/12/02
Records or not, township meets
On Tuesday night, the Great Bend Township board had no minutes, no records, no checkbook and very little financial information.
However, with a little discussion and head-scratching, the 35-or-so people who were on hand agreed that the annual meeting must go on.
http://www.windomnews.com/windomnews/myarticles.asp?P=498864&S=91&PubID=8768&EC=0




San Diego Union-Tribune 3/15/02
INS clerk accused of selling documents
Undercover work part of investigation started in January
By Marisa Taylor
An immigration worker was arrested yesterday on charges of making and selling employment authorization cards.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20020315-9999_7m15cards.html



Naples Daily News 3/15/02
Birth certificate: Miss Cleo is from California, not Jamaica
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE — Caribbean lilt and colorful clothing aside, the woman
marketed on cable television as Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo turns out instead to be
a product of Los Angeles, born there to parents from California and Texas.
http://www.naplesnews.com/02/03/florida/d376227a.htm




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va