MAY
21
2009

Microsoft Loses $200 Million Jury Verdict in i4i Patent Trial

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was ordered by a federal jury to pay $200 million to a Canadian company over a patented way to process electronic documents in Microsoft’s Word products.

MAY
21
2009

Tycoon, ex-cop guilty of pop star´s murder

An Egyptian business tycoon and a former police officer have been found guilty of the July slaying of rising Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim.

MAY
21
2009

Mom Disappears with Son After Court Orders Chemo for the Boy

A judge who ordered a 13-year-old teen to receive chemotherapy has now issued an arrest warrant for the mother after she and the boy disappeared.

MAY
20
2009

A new politics: Restrict the use of secondary legislation

Statutory instruments greatly increase the power of the executive and allow ministers to avoid public and critical scrutiny.

MAY
20
2009

Bolivia ex-president goes on trial in absentia on genocide charges

The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Monday opened the trial of former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in connection with the deaths of 63 anti-government protesters in October 2003.

MAY
20
2009

Cyberthieves steal millions from US banks-FBI

U.S. banks have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to cyberthieves who have electronically broken into ATMs and forged electronic transfers, a top FBI agent said on Tuesday.

MAY
20
2009

U.N. hopes to tap new sources of money for aid

The United Nations is trying to harness donations from individuals for its aid programmes that stand to attract less government money because of the economic downturn, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.

MAY
20
2009

New law on forced prostitution weakened, say women´s groups

Home Office ministers tonight defended changes to legislation to criminalise men who pay for sex with women who are forced into prostitution.

MAY
20
2009

Lawyers at U.S. Firms Face FSA Insider-Trading Case

A former and a current partner at the London offices of two U.S. law firms face insider-trading charges next month brought by the U.K. Financial Services Authority, according to court documents.

MAY
20
2009

House approves financial fraud legislation to create investigatory commission

The US House of Representatives on Monday approved the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, which creates a commission to investigate the cause of recent economic turmoil and allocates more resources for federal prosecutors to pursue financial fraud cases.

MAY
20
2009

Obama takes aim at climate-warming car emissions

U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage.

MAY
19
2009

Britain´s Speaker apologises, election calls grow

The most senior official in Britain´s lower house of parliament apologised to the nation on Monday for an expenses scandal among lawmakers that has prompted growing calls for an early general election.

MAY
19
2009

Meticulous Madoff Records Said to Aid Probe of High-Return Investors

At least eight investors and friends of Bernard Madoff are reportedly under a criminal investigation that seeks to learn whether they knew their high investment returns were part of a fraud.

MAY
19
2009

The Feds in Business: An Exit Strategy

The federal government appears to be everywhere when it comes to the economy.

MAY
19
2009

Chrysler Dealers Want to Keep Non-Bankruptcy Rights

Chrysler LLC’s dealers asked a bankruptcy judge to let them claim legal protections they lost when the automaker filed for Chapter 11.

MAY
19
2009

Credit Card Reforms up for Senate Vote

Unable to stop the tide of foreclosures and job losses, lawmakers are hoping to give voters at least some breathing room in the economic downturn by banning arbitrary credit card rate hikes and excessive fees.

MAY
19
2009

Bill Clinton to be named UN Haiti envoy-officials

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, U.N. officials said on Monday, in a move that could attract investment in the Western Hemisphere´s poorest nation and help stabilize the country.

MAY
18
2009

Supreme Court rules against retroactive application of pregnancy discrimination law

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 7-2 in AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen that companies do not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) by failing to award employees credit for maternity leave taken before the act´s effective date.

MAY
18
2009

G20 police are not above the law

The Climate Camp went to the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate on 1 April to highlight the failure of carbon trading as a solution to climate change.

MAY
18
2009

India Congress focuses on new cabinet as markets surge

India´s Congress party was expected to appoint key reformers to the new cabinet as financial markets soared on Monday on hopes its sweeping election win would herald a strong coalition government.

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