The Court of Appeal paved the way today for terror suspects to sue for damages over legally-flawed control orders that breached human rights.
New York City will pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the estate of a man killed by police outside a Queens´ nightclub in 2006 and by his two friends, who were seriously wounded, a spokeswoman for the city´s Law Department said Tuesday.
The parliament of Catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting - the first region of mainland Spain to do so.
On 1 June this year newspaper headlines were filled with angry outpourings after a flotilla of humanitarian aid for Gaza was attacked by the Israeli navy and nine Turkish citizens were killed.
Lewis Freeman, a prominent attorney, accountant, and court-appointed receiver and trustee in Miami, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and 21 months house arrest for his role in a $2.6 million fraud.
A jobless lorry driver who pulled off an "elaborate and outrageous scam" to sell London´s Ritz Hotel for £250m has been jailed for five years.
The American Bar Association is moving ahead with changes in its accreditation system that faculty members fear could erode tenure protections for many professors and further weaken job security for clinical faculty members, many of whom don´t have tenure to start with.
BP PLC and the other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are faced with fast-multiplying lawsuits that will provoke one of the most drawn-out and costliest legal battles in U.S. history, one that could easily consume the $20 billion set aside by BP to pay for the disaster, according to legal experts and attorneys nationwide.
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday blocked The National Law Journal from publishing information from court records about a regulatory investigation into juice maker POM Wonderful.
Lawyers Associated Worldwide, or LAW, has tapped William Savarino, a partner at Washington’s 13-lawyer Cohen Mohr, to serve as its new chairman. Savarino had previously been vice chairman.
Kaing Guek Eav, the Khmer Rouge chief jailer sentenced to 35 years in prison for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, plans to appeal against his conviction by a UN-backed war crimes tribunal, a tribunal spokesman said today.
A federal judge in Los Angeles refused on Monday to throw out a class action against Toyota Motor Corp. over defective headlights on their Prius vehicles.
Eleven Somali pirates have been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Seychelles for attempting to seize a coastguard boat last December.
The ruling means that smartphone owners will be able to "hack" their phones, a process known as "jailbreaking", in order to run applications and software without the approval of the phone´s maker.
A transcript of Facebook´s court appearance raises new questions about Paul Ceglia´s suit claiming a stake in the company.
It´s no secret that the global economy hasn´t exactly been a boon to the labor movement.
The United States on Monday ruled out military action against Venezuela after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US if it backed a Colombian attack.
The disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his military strategy as Congress prepares to deliberate financing of the Afghanistan war.
A fast-track process for deporting failed asylum-seekers, which gives them little or no notice of their immediate removal, is unlawful, the high court ruled today.
With less than three months until the presidential election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is trying to make enough of his magic dust stick to his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, to persuade voters to elect her as the first female president of Brazil, Latin America´s largest country.
voltar para o topo