The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday rejected an emergency request for provisional measures from the Georgian Republic to stop the alleged killing and mass displacement of citizens in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio´s secretary of state to establish a system to verify hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters by Friday.
Further tightening rules meant to prevent the abuse of detainees, the Pentagon has issued a new policy directive requiring that interrogations of prisoners be monitored, even if questioning is being carried out by another government agency.
The U.K.´s Financial Services Authority should monitor companies that buy homes at a discount from people who agree to remain as tenants to ensure that customers get fair treatment, an antitrust regulator said.
European Union regulators fined Dole Food Co. and Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. 60.3 million euros ($82 million) over claims the banana importers fixed prices in eight countries between 2000 and 2002.
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. won´t complete the $2.6 billion purchase of bankrupt copper producer Asarco LLC without a price reduction of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” lawyers said.
Michigan violated federal law when it removed about 1,500 newly registered voters from its rolls this year after voter identification cards mailed to them were returned undelivered, a federal judge ruled today.
The British government on Monday said it would make a multi-billion investment in three of the country´s major banks to help them through the "first financial crisis of the global age."
Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, the commercial-property lender that got a 50 billion-euro ($68.3 billion) bailout, hired law firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP to investigate possible breach of duties by former company board members Georg Funke and Bo Heide-Ottosen.
U.S. companies are anticipating an increase in litigation and government investigations following a two-year decline, according to a law firm´s survey of in-house counsel.
W.R. Grace & Co., the chemical maker nearing the end of a seven-year-old bankruptcy, was spared from having to pay $130 million to repair damage to 16 California government buildings allegedly contaminated with asbestos.
Volkswagen AG, Europe´s largest automaker, won a federal appeals court ruling that limits where it can be sued over allegations of defective parts, a decision that may also curb patent lawsuits in an east Texas town.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadly interpreted rules protecting the content of databases from copying, regardless of how the information is extracted from its source.
Spain´s biggest bank Santander is in talks to acquire full control of US lender Sovereign Bancorp, in which it already holds a 25 percent stake, the two groups said Monday.
The Center for Reproductive Rights has come out and challenged the Oklahoma abortion law in the form of a lawsuit.
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has closed its nearly two-year antitrust investigation into ATI Technologies, a graphics chip company it acquired shortly before the investigation began.
The leaders of 15 European nations agreed on Sunday to shore up troubled banks as part of a broad plan to ease the global financial crisis.
The Federal Communications Commission released an engineering report on Friday, which gives the green light to a project to create a free wireless internet service across the U.S.
German leaders worked Monday to tie up a rescue package for their banking system that officials said could be worth as much as $543 billion — part of a coordinated effort to shore up the euro zone´s financial sector.
China´s ruling Communist Party said Sunday it aims to double the income of the country´s farmers in two decades amid efforts to boost domestic demand to counter the effects of the faltering global economy.
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