A British judge ruled against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday, tossing out an order to freeze $12 billion in assets belonging to Venezuela´s state oil company in a case that stemmed from the nationalization of a project last year.
Confusion surrounds the buyout of Clear Channel Communications (CCU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) due to tensions between the private equity companies behind the deal and the banks that have agreed to finance it, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
A federal court on Tuesday gave White House officials three days to explain why they should not be required to make copies of all e-mails on computers in the Executive Office of the President
Ford Motor Co. is off the hook for an $11.8 million product liability judgment in a crashworthiness suit over a chassis cab´s faulty rear bumper safety device.
A former high-school history teacher who made a fortune trading Latin American bonds during the 1980s anted up a highly unusual $200,000 to bail 40 strangers out of jail last year.
In what may be the first such investigation in the nation, prosecutors in New Jersey reportedly are investigating a controversial no-holds-barred college campus gossip website for possible consumer law violations.
A grand jury indicted his client, Scott Harkonen, former CEO of the Brisbane, Calif.-based biotech firm InterMune Inc., Tuesday for fraudulently marketing the company´s drug Actimmune.
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out the death sentence and conviction in a murder case Wednesday, citing racial prejudice in the actions of a prosecutor who kept blacks off the jury.
The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights has filed a with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States, against Mexico, alleging that the Mexican government failed to adequately respond to the 1974 disappearance of guerrilla sympathizer Rosendo Radilla during Mexico´s so-called "dirty war" against leftist activists in the 1960s and 70s.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday rejected an appeal by three former Enron Broadband Services executives seeking the dismissal of remaining charges after a jury failed to reach a verdict on all counts in their 2005 fraud trial.
A group formed at Harvard Law School that backs poker as an educational tool rallied outside the Massachusetts State House yesterday to oppose a bill that would impose criminal penalties for playing the game online.
The Supreme Court’s apparent embrace of an individual right to bear arms during oral arguments yesterday leads to the next question: How far does the right extend?
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked Peruvian President Alan Garcia during talks in Tokyo Monday to ensure that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is treated fairly during his ongoing trial on murder and kidnapping charges.
Thirty years after it approved FCC rules banning the use of "indecent" language on broadcast television and radio, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at the issue again - this time in the context of the fleeting use of expletives in live broadcasts.
Prosecutors have persuaded a federal appeals court to reverse the low sentences given a hotel group´s former general counsel and its chief financial officer in connection with a $100 million bank fraud scheme.
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday ordered that former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio should be retried before a new federal judge.
A French court has ordered that the former Societe Generale trader accused of losing billions of euros be released from custody.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court decision blocking a Minnesota law imposing fines on minors who purchase adult-rated video games.
Lawyers for four Kuwaitis being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say government prosecutors are violating standard legal ethics rules by contacting defendants whom they know to be represented by counsel.
Coca plantations and a fully-equipped laboratory for making cocaine have been found for the first time in a Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest.
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