“The one approach I will not accept,” said Barack Obama in June of Congress’s faltering efforts to fight global warming, “is inaction.” Instead, the president instructed America’s lawmakers to “seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels”. Yet the energy bill unveiled by the Democratic majority in the Senate on July 27th does nothing of the sort.
Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice A. Kirke Bartley on Thursday refused to set aside a jury verdict reached after a five-month trial that socialite Brooke Astor´s son, Anthony D. Marshall, had stolen from the famed philanthropist´s $132 million estate.
Some judges were intellectually or temperamentally unsuited to the job, a retired senior Supreme Court judge said.
Three former Labour MPs and a Conservative peer cannot use parliamentary privilege to avoid a criminal trial for allegedly abusing their expenses, three of the country’s most senior judges have ruled.
The government is counting on foreign investors to help it privatize an estimated $29 billion in assets to reduce the state´s "excessive" presence in the economy, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Thursday.
Samuel and Charles Wyly, the billionaire brothers from Dallas who are large donors to philanthropies and to conservative causes, were charged Thursday with conducting an extensive securities fraud that the Securities and Exchange Commission said reaped $550 million in undisclosed gains.
Citigroup Inc. will pay $75 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims that it misled investors by failing to disclose billions of dollars in holdings tied to subprime mortgages while the housing crisis unfolded.
Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir was given bail today on condition he returns to Britain. Nadir is said to be willing to come back to face trial after fleeing to northern Cyprus 17 years ago in the face of fraud allegations.
As German companies face a shortage of skilled labor, Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle announced plans for a recruitment drive and suggested businesses start appealing to migrant workers´ wallets.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said she will appeal a judge’s ruling that struck key provisions of a state law that would have forced police to determine the immigration status of people stopped for questioning.
Lawmakers on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that would reduce the long-standing disparity between federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine distribution.
A federal judge in Washington has granted immunity to two Louisiana lawyers ahead of their expected testimony before the U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial Committee.
Visa Inc., the world’s biggest payments network, fell as much as 5 percent after saying the U.S. Department of Justice may sue the company over a policy that bars merchants from charging extra to customers who pay with credit cards.
Russia has expanded the powers of its FSB secret police in a move that has alarmed human rights activists.
Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish. That´s how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a summons issued to a man wearing low-slung pants that exposed his underwear.
The city that adopted Florida´s harshest punishments for booming car stereos is now backing down.
A Moscow region court ruled Wednesday that an amateur poet crossed the line between art and crime by turning a youth commune into an illegal militant group and abusing several of its members.
MALAYSIA is tripling prison sentences and imposing stiff fines for people-smugglers, who often use the nation as a transit point to Australia.
The move came after years of bewilderment with what are regarded as draconian UK libel laws that saw a string of cases being heard which would never have been brought in the US.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong. Monday´s ruling, according to Julea Ward´s attorneys, could result in Christian students across the country being expelled from public university for similar views.
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