The National Football League Players Association was sued by Yahoo! Inc. over control of the players’ names, pictures and voices that Yahoo uses in its fantasy football game.
A federal judge has upheld a law immunizing telecommunications companies from liability for participating in the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and dismissed dozens of lawsuits seeking damages.
A former bouncer at a SoHo bar was convicted of murder on Wednesday for sexually abusing and killing a graduate student, then dumping her body in a desolate corner of Brooklyn — a crime that shocked the city and led to greater scrutiny of the nightclub industry.
Convicted US district court judge Samuel Kent on Tuesday submitted his letter of resignation to President Barack Obama effective June 2010, after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice charges in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of his secretary and former case manager.
A pioneering Scottish law on homelessness that makes housing "an enforceable right" should be adopted throughout the UK, a United Nations report on social issues has urged.
India´s lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber´s history.
A controversial "50/50" provision in the Durbin-Grassley visa reform bill could hurt Indian outsourcing firms. Advocates say it will save American jobs.
Gucci America Inc., the luxury company that is owned by Paris-based PPR SA, asked a U.S. judge to hold Bank of China Ltd. in contempt for failing to turn over documents and to order it to pay $4 million.
A second British cabinet minister announced she was resigning Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Gordon Brown´s authority and his future as leader of the increasingly out-of-favor Labor Party.
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia blocks church´s IP addresses, and prohibits list of individuals from editing Scientology articles.
A New Jersey man whose efforts to gain custody of his son in Brazil attracted international attention may have finally gotten his wish.
A North Carolina judge has been reprimanded for "friending" a lawyer in a pending case, posting and reading messages about the litigation, and accessing the website of the opposing party.
If Colleen McDonald was trying to make a dramatic point in Judge Arthur Gonzalez´ Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on May 29, she succeeded.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is being sued for defamation by a US "shock jock" barred from entering Britain.
General Motors Corp., the world’s largest automaker for 77 years, began filing for bankruptcy by putting a New York affiliate into Chapter 11, a landmark for an industry that defined American economic might.
An Air France plane with 228 people on board was presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is set to meet with several high-ranking members of the Chinese leadership this week, marking the Obama administration´s first major overture to the powerhouse nation.
Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry as a potentially lucrative new opportunity for fraud, an Interpol environmental crime official said on Friday.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether shareholders can sue international pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. because of the failure of its former blockbuster painkiller Vioxx.
Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, has come under scrutiny in an investigation that threatens to complicate government efforts to wring more revenue from the deepwater oil fields that are expected to transform the country into a global energy power.
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