Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Bros. Co.´s supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida enabled the massive data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards, the company said Friday.
A federal judge has set aside a nearly $200 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and ordered a new trial in a suit that contended the authority was liable for a terrorist attack in Israel.
A reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times apologized to readers in an article today after concluding their March 17 article on the 1994 shooting of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur was based in part on forged documents.
The global patent director of Pfizer Inc., Alan Hesketh, has been arrested and charged with child pornography, the Associated Press reports.
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Thursday he would personally ensure that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) does not bow to political pressure as it prosecutes government officials for corruption. In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Mukasey said:
A Nebraska bill that would have banned the death penalty, replacing it with a sentence of life in prison without parole, failed in the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday, receiving only 20 of the 25 necessary votes to move forward.
Rambus case goes to juryRambus, the small Los Altos company whose memory-chip technology is inside virtually every personal computer, won a major court victory today in its decade-long effort to get royalties from the world´s major chip makers.
A group of Google investors is proposing that the Internet company create a committee on human rights and establish policies that forbid it from engaging in censorship.
German supermarket group Lidl has denied that it spied on its staff, but has admitted that it placed secret cameras in its stores. The company, which also confirmed it had employed private detectives, insisted that it carried out the measures simply to combat shoplifting.
The Bush administration has filed an appeal of a ruling by a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit invalidating new less-stringent mercury emissions rules issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Indiana v. Edwards, 07-208, a case in which the Court is considering whether states may adopt a higher standard for measuring competency to represent oneself at trial than for measuring competency to stand trial.
In the wake of last week´s near-collapse of the once-famed Bear Stearns investment bank, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is saying that such investment houses, like regular commercial banks, should be regulated by the federal government.
The United Arab Emirates has appointed its first woman judge, the official WAM news agency said, after amending the law to allow female federal judges and prosecutors in the Gulf Arab state.
A controversial case concerning an al-Qaida terrorism suspect who has been held in U.S. custody since he was 15 years old is being argued in Canada´s highest court today, where counsel for Omar Khadr is contending that the defense should be given access to documents concerning an interview of him by Canadian investigators at Gitmo.
The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.
The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom. It has issued plans that will allow airlines to offer mobile services on UK-registered aircraft.
Car giant Ford has sold its luxury UK-based car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian company Tata.
Clear Channel Communications Inc.´s planned $19 billion buyout by Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital Partners may be close to collapsing.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday overturned a New York law requiring airlines to provide passengers on seriously delayed flights with basic amenities, ventilation, and waste removal, holding that federal law preempts state airline regulation.
A federal appeals court has removed U.S. District Judge Manuel Real in a securities fraud case for creating an atmosphere that favored the prosecution.
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