A German court ruled Tuesday that schoolchildren may rate their teachers online, rejecting the case of a woman who argued her rights had been infringed by pupils who gave her bad grades on a popular website.
An Italian court on Tuesday postponed the trial against four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has singled out reform of Russia´s legal system as the biggest challenge facing the country.
This year, as Brazilians celebrate the centennial of Euclides da Cunha, we regarded him as our nation’s greatest writer, sociologist and engineer.
Three lawsuits filed on Monday provided new details about what regulators say went on inside Bernard L. Madoff’s long-running Ponzi scheme, including information about who might have helped perpetuate the fraud for so long.
A New York lawyer with no prior disciplinary history has been suspended for three years after she repeatedly refused to get a required mental health examination concerning her false claims to be the wife of Queens Supreme Court Administrative Judge Jeremy Weinstein.
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday in Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and Alaska v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council that the US Army Corps of Engineers may issue a permit for discharge of fill material otherwise subject to limitations under Sections 301 or 306 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).
In a unanimous decision, justices leave safeguards intact while allowing municipalities with a clean record to ´bail out.´
Texas financier Allen Stanford was indicted with a former Antiguan regulator on charges they helped direct a $7 billion fraud that U.S. prosecutors said put the "integrity of the markets" at risk.
A disbarred New Jersey lawyer was sentenced to a 15-year prison term today for stealing about $4 million he was supposed to use for real estate closings and gambling it away in Atlantic City casinos.
American computer makers say the Chinese government has not backed down from a requirement that Internet censorship software be preinstalled on all computers sold in China after July 1, despite reports this week that the rule had been relaxed.
China´s Internet watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google on Thursday for "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information."
General Motors Corp., formerly the world’s largest automaker, won approval to cancel leases for seven corporate jets and a hangar at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
A 49-year-old man impersonated his dead 77-year-old mother in paperwork -- and sometimes in person -- for six years, collecting more than $100,000 in her name, according to the Brooklyn district attorney.
Now that President Barack Obama has unveiled his sweeping proposal to remake financial regulation in the U.S., attorneys and lobbyists for nearly every facet of the financial-services industry are poring over it, determining where to fold, where to compromise—and where to fight tooth and nail.
L’Oreal SA won a ruling from the European Union’s highest court that will allow it to block a group of perfume makers from marketing "smell-alike" versions of the world’s largest cosmetics maker’s fragrances.
Oklahoma Judge Jesse Harris won’t have to stand trial for indecent exposure, but he has to complete a judicial counseling program and pay $1,200 as part of a deferred prosecution agreement on a lesser charge.
A French woman who confessed to killing banker Edouard Stern after they had sado-masochistic sex and argued over $1 million (612,000 pounds) was found guilty on Wednesday of murder, rather than the lesser charge of a crime of passion.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Monday denied allegations that author J.K. Rowling copied "substantial parts" of a book by another children´s author when she wrote "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
As EU leaders met in Brussels to respond to the Lisbon treaty´s crushing defeat last week by Irish voters, Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, went into his first EU summit as head of government facing growing calls to ask his public to vote again.
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