Federal prosecutors Monday charged Barclays Bank in a two-count information in Washington alleging the financial institution violated economic sanctions in dealings with countries that include Iran, Cuba and Libya, court records show.
If you´re headed to traffic court in Bakersfield, Calif., better leave the flip-flops at home.
A judge delayed ruling yesterday on Lorillard Tobacco Co.’s request that she reject a lawsuit accusing the nation’s third-largest tobacco company of targeting black youth in its cigarette marketing.
A federal judge refused to sign off on the Securities and Exchange Commission´s $75 million settlement with Citigroup (C), saying she needs more information to decide if it´s fair.
The Obama administration said Monday that it would require significantly more environmental review before approving new offshore drilling permits, ending a practice in which government regulators essentially rubber-stamped potentially hazardous deep-water projects like the BP´s out-of-control well.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has blocked same-sex marriages in California while it is considering an appeal of a lower-court judge´s ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
A Brooklyn federal jury has found blogger and Internet-radio shock jock Harold "Hal" Turner guilty of threatening to kill three judges from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Two law firms fighting over nearly $5 million in legal fees in a record-setting dram shop case will battle on, thanks to an appeals court decision Thursday that reversed the award of more than $4.6 million to one of them.
After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world´s second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures released early Monday.
A $55 million lawsuit by a unit of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. can proceed against Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker over allegations the firm gave faulty advice on a loan made in connection with a private equity firm´s 2008 acquisition of bankrupt retailer Steve & Barry´s.
Leaders of the Thailand anti-government protests that brought part of Bangkok to a standstill earlier this year have appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.
Prosecutors for Cambodia´s U.N.-backed genocide tribunal appealed Monday for a longer sentence for the former chief jailer of the Khmer Rouge.
Florence city council has threatened a courtroom battle with the Italian government over the ownership of Michelangelo´s David.
An Iranian court has delayed the final verdict of a 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning, a human rights group said Sunday, two days after the country announced she will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The United Nations estimates that up to 3.5 million children are at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan as a result of the country´s devastating floods.
One of New Zealand´s most notorious killers allegedly contacted a woman on the jury that found him guilty this month of kidnapping.
Nadja Benaissa, member of the German pop group No Angels, has pled guilty to aggravated assault after infecting a man with the HIV virus during unprotected sex.
The war crimes trial of Omar Khadr has been postponed for at least 30 days as arrangements are made to fly his Pentagon-appointed attorney to the United States for medical treatment.
According to a United Nations report released on Thursday, labor market trends for young people have taken a drastic turn for the worse since 2007, when global youth unemployment remained fairly stagnant.
A Singapore prosecutor asked a court to increase the five-month jail term of Swiss executive Oliver Fricker, who was also sentenced to three strokes of the cane for vandalism and trespassing.
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