OCT
16
2008

ICJ orders Georgia, Russia to stop ethnic discrimination in conflict region

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.

OCT
15
2008

Court orders Ohio to verify newly registered voters

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.

OCT
15
2008

Pentagon tightens rules on detainee interrogation

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.

OCT
15
2008

U.K.´s FSA should regulate sale and leaseback market, OFT says

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.

OCT
15
2008

EU fines Dole, Fresh Del Monte in banana cartel case

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.

OCT
15
2008

Sterlite won´t complete Asarco deal without price reduction

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.

OCT
14
2008

Judge says Michigan policy violated voting law

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.

OCT
14
2008

UK government takes stake in three banks

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."

OCT
14
2008

Hypo Real Estate hires firm to probe ex-board members

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.

OCT
14
2008

U.S. company lawyers expecting litigation surge, survey says

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.

OCT
14
2008

W.R. Grace wins dismissal of California property damage claims

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.

OCT
14
2008

Volkswagen wins court ruling over trial location

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.

OCT
14
2008

Europe court rules in favor of broad database copy protection

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.

OCT
13
2008

Spain´s Santander announces takeover talks for US bank

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.

OCT
13
2008

Abortion law in Oklahoma attacked by advocacy group

The Center for Reproductive Rights has come out and challenged the Oklahoma abortion law in the form of a lawsuit.

OCT
13
2008

Justice Dept. closes ATI and Nvidia antitrust investigation

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.

OCT
13
2008

European leaders agree on financial deal

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.

OCT
13
2008

Report by the FCC dismisses wireless internet interference claims

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.

OCT
13
2008

Germany creating up to $543 billion rescue package

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.

OCT
13
2008

China Communist Party aims to double rural income

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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