Lobbyists gave more than $1,400 in basketball tickets to legislators who helped pass a waiver on environmental laws for the NFL project. Disney and gaming interests were among the other big donors.
Film star could face a £1.36m lawsuit brought by O2, his partners on The Expendables production, his latest action outing.
South African court has sentenced former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi to 15 years in jail for corruption.
A bill that would make it harder to challenge state alcohol laws in court and an ongoing fight over rum subsidies helped fuel high second-quarter lobbying spending by a host of alcohol companies and trade associations, lobbying disclosure reports filed last month show.
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that Proposition 209, the ballot measure that banned affirmative action by government, did not violate the federal Constitution.
A jury has been sworn in for the trial of an Auckland man who is accused of blackmailing his lawyer.
Legal Services Agency (LSA) says it is investigating six lawyers over their billing as the agency looks to clean up alleged rorting of the service.
A federal judge has ruled that Nixon Peabody charged excessive fees in a legal battle between aviation companies operating at Washington Dulles International Airport.
A federal judge has refused to block a challenge to the Obama administration’s health care law brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
A Perth judge is set to decide this week whether a Muslim woman can wear a full burqa while giving evidence before a jury in a fraud case.
As a lawyer today, being proactive and taking charge of your own professional development is imperative regardless of where you currently are in your career.
The European Court of Human Rights has awarded 668,000 euros ($873,000) to 87 military veterans from the town of Novocherkassk in the Rostov region who were denied pensions and other compensations, the Vremya Novostei daily reported Monday.
World Cup winners Spain and their opponents Netherlands have been fined by Fifa for their players´ poor discipline in July´s final.
It was a dramatic scene, not Hollywood drama mind you, but high theater for the Supreme Court in a springtime showdown over the future of this country´s gun laws. The only thing missing was the cameras.
The constitutional court in Karlsruhe has overturned a German law which automatically grants child custody to mothers when the parents are not married. The ruling makes dual custody more likely in many cases.
The macho man image is dead in some workplaces.
The majority of New Zealanders support an end to commercial tobacco sales by 2020, a UMR Research survey has found.
Iran says the Brazilian president did not have enough information when he offered refuge to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.
The Chairman of Germany´s Federal Labor Agency speaks out against Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle´s plan to attract skilled foreigners, saying Germany should first focus on mining the potential of its own workers.
MPs have been denied an "adequate opportunity" to scrutinise legislation paving the way for a referendum on reform of the voting system, it was claimed today.
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