In one of the most important Supreme Court cases (American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League) for professional sports in history the court today denied the National Football League broad protection from antitrust suites.
The Brazilian government´s recent mediation efforts to persuade Iran to sign a deal on enriching uranium as a way of allaying suspicions about its nuclear programme highlighted Brazil´s ambition to project its influence beyond South America.
India´s estranged billionaire Ambani brothers, who split the family’s business empire, said on Sunday that they had ended noncompetition agreements that had been a source of bitter dispute.
Temasek Holdings Pte. lost a final appeal against an Indonesian ruling that the Singapore state- owned company breached anti-monopoly laws, Indonesia’s Supreme Court said today on its Web site.
The Bank of Spain took over the running of Cajasur on Saturday following the Catholic Church-owned savings bank’s rejection of a merger with rival Unicaja, thus dealing a second blow in just over a year to the government’s hopes of restructuring the troubled savingsbank sector through a series of mergers and acquisitions.
Britain´s top medical group ruled Monday that a doctor who claimed autism was linked to a childhood vaccine can no longer practice in the U.K.
Chancellor George Osborne has outlined plans for £6.2bn in spending cuts, saying "urgent action" was necessary to address the budget deficit.
Tensions escalated sharply Monday on the Korean Peninsula as the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, said that his nation would sever nearly all trade with North Korea, deny North Korean merchant ships use of South Korean sea lanes and ask the United Nations Security Council to punish the North for what he called the deliberate sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.
At a Tuesday hearing, a committee of the Texas Supreme Court will seek a temporary injunction to prevent an Austin ex-convict and his two companies from engaging in acts alleged to constitute the unauthorized practice of law.
Germany´s highest court has banned budget airline Ryanair from charging German customers a fee for paying with a credit card. The news came as the Irish airline announced plans for fresh investment in Germany.
In the days since President Barack Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted, according to records.
Australia on Monday called for the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over fake passports used in the assassination of a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider longstanding business complaints that states including California are undermining the benefits of arbitration by requiring that consumers be allowed to press cases as a group.
A Tokyo court rejected compensation claims Monday by a group of Chinese plaintiffs over the death and the sickening of 44 people after construction workers broke open several barrels of World War II poison gas abandoned by Japanese troops.
Pakistan´s Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to several constitutional measures which parliament passed in April.
Congress is getting tougher on both borrowers and lenders blamed for inflating a housing bubble that, when it popped, plunged the nation into a severe recession two years ago.
Illinois authorities have finally come to a conclusion: A lawyer who worked at three Am Law 100 firms will be suspended from practicing law for three years for leaving crucial information out of his law school application -- including having been kicked out of medical school -- and for altering his transcripts to land a summer associate gig at Sidley Austin.
A Swiss parliamentary commission signaled Friday that it was likely to accept an agreement with United States to hand over data on clients of the bank UBS suspected of tax evasion.
As Canadian politicians in Ottawa prepare to launch new copyright legislation next week, Canada’s most notorious file sharing Website is facing increasing legal pressure from legal authorities in the United States.
German lawmakers approved their country’s share of a $1 trillion euro-region bailout in a vote today, allaying market concern that they would balk at approving a second emergency aid package in as many weeks.
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