JUL
23
2010

Lula says he will mediate dispute between Chávez and Uribe

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez broke ties with Colombia on Thursday (23). Presidential advisor Marco Aurélio Garcia is optimistic about a reconciliation.

JUL
23
2010

FTC Asks D.C. Circuit to Apply ´Red Flag´ Rules to Lawyers

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday urged a federal appeals court not to exempt lawyers from generally applicable business regulations again.

JUL
23
2010

Discriminatory laws contribute to spread of HIV/AIDS: report

Laws criminalizing homosexual activity are contributing to the spread of HIV and AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the findings of a study announced Wednesday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

JUL
23
2010

Law firm sanctioned in bankruptcy case

A New York law firm’s attempt to force a former client into bankruptcy backfired after a judge ruled the petition was filed in bad faith.

JUL
22
2010

Justice Dept. opts not to file charges for Bush-era U.S. attorney firings

The Bush administration´s Justice Department´s actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.

JUL
22
2010

Telefónica takes on US lawyers as Vivo dispute nears litigation

Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has hired the services of the US law office Dewey & Laboeuf as its assessor in possible legal action against Portugal Telecom in the two companies’ dispute over their Brazilian joint venture Vivo.

JUL
22
2010

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie win privacy damages

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted an undisclosed sum in settlement of their privacy claim against the News of the World.

JUL
22
2010

Hugo Chavez exhumes remains of hero Simon Bolivar

Mr Chavez suspects that Bolivar was murdered and did not die from tuberculosis, as most historians believe.

JUL
22
2010

Diamond found guilty in Ponzi scheme

What Sarasota currency trader Beau Diamond called a "supremely safe" high-yield investment was instead a Ponzi scheme aimed at defrauding 200 clients of $37 million, a jury found Wednesday, ending an eight-day federal criminal trial.

JUL
22
2010

International gay marriage

On the evening of July 21, the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, convened a ceremony at the Casa Rosada government house in downtown Buenos Aires to formally sign into law a bill legalizing gay marriage.

JUL
22
2010

No criminal charges over U.S. attorney firings, says Justice Department

Nora Dannehy, the special prosecutor tapped to investigate potential criminal violations tied to the removal of nine U.S. Attorneys, has wrapped up the probe with a finding that no criminal charges be filed, the Justice Department announced Wednesday in a letter to Congress.

JUL
22
2010

Publisher fined record $250m in copyright case

A Moscow court has ordered a leading publishing house to pay an unprecedented 7.6 billion rubles ($249.6 million) in damages to a smaller rival for copyright infringement in a lawsuit that lawyers said highlights the shortcomings of Russia´s intellectual property rights laws.

JUL
22
2010

Catalan chief presses for statute remedy

Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Catalan premier José Montilla met for more than two hours yesterday, discussing ways to try to resuscitate parts of Catalonia’s autonomy statute that were recently struck down as unconstitutional.

JUL
22
2010

Kosovo´s independence is legal, UN court rules

Decision in favour of Kosovo´s independence could have far-reaching implications for other separatist movements

JUL
22
2010

Brazil enacts racial discrimination law, but some say it´s not needed

With a few quick strokes of a pen this week, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed into law a widely debated measure that aims to end hundreds of years of racial disparity.

JUL
22
2010

Bashir warrant: Chad accuses ICC of anti-African bias

Chad has accused the International Criminal Court of only targeting African leaders, as it justifies its decision not to arrest Sudan´s President Omar al-Bashir.

JUL
22
2010

N.Y. Law Firm Sued Over ´Utterly False´ Opinion Letters in Deals Involving Dreier

Fortress Investment Group LLC filed suit against Ruskin Moscou Faltischek on Tuesday for allegedly issuing "utterly false" legal opinion letters used by ex-lawyer Marc S. Dreier, who is now in prison for his role in a massive Ponzi scheme.

JUL
22
2010

International court to rule on Kosovo independence

The International Court of Justice will on Thursday give its verdict on the legality of Kosovo´s unilateral declaration of independence. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo and hopes the court will rule in its favor.

JUL
22
2010

Tycoon Conrad Black is released from jail on $2m bail

Canadian-born tycoon Conrad Black has been freed from a Florida prison on bail, pending an appeal over fraud convictions.

JUL
21
2010

New war crimes trial for former Kosovo PM Haradinaj

The Hague tribunal has ordered a new war crimes trial for Kosovo ex-PM Ramush Haradinaj and two others.

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