You know a country´s human rights situation is bad when even Amnesty International is urging that a guy be methodically whipped or caned on his back as a compromise to avoid an even harsher sentence.
Food and Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg said Monday her agency is limited by law to a mostly reactive stance on food safety and argued that it needs a more "preventive approach."
Some one million South African civil servants are continuing their indefinite strike despite a court injunction banning unions from closing emergency services.
A federal appeals panel has affirmed a lower court´s ruling disqualifying Blank Rome from representing a company adverse to a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which is a client of the firm.
A federal appeals court has snatched away a $29 million fee award that two law firms received for serving as lead plaintiffs counsel in a California backdating securities class action.
People and businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will most likely have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill, according to internal documents from the lawyers handling the fund.
A Thai court ruled that accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout can be extradited to the U.S. to face terrorism charges after two years in detention, a decision officials in Moscow called ´political."
In August 2008, Nathan Richardson committed to following in the footsteps of so many young lawyers before him: a summer position with a big law firm, followed by a job offer before he ever cracked open a third-year textbook. And then everything changed.
The West Australian government is seeking legal advice about accusations a young lawyer was bullied by a magistrate just weeks before she committed suicide.
A judge has ordered anti-hate lawyer Richard Warman to turn over a laptop computer he used to create false personas on far-right websites, so that an independent expert can search it for evidence that Mr. Warman authored a racist comment against a Canadian senator.
Investigative reporters may face prison sentences and fines of up to €10,000 for the leaking of illegally recorded information.
The country´s top sanitary doctor on Thursday called for a total ban on the advertisement of beer and other alcohol in Russia, calling the beverages "evil" and complaining about their use in television shows.
The manufacturer of Swiss condom brand called Harry Popper is being sued by Warner Brothers.
Air traffic controllers on Thursday ratified the agreement they reached last week with the public airport authority, AENA, over their new working conditions. In doing so, they effectively ended the threat of a strike at the height of the vacation season, a possibility that had the tourism industry — and travelers — in despair.
Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in three states and possibly more, and health officials on Wednesday dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs.
The German health ministry has announced plans to legalize medical use of marijuana, prompting praise from advocates for patients with chronic pain and terminal illnesses.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of federal district court in Washington, D.C., was not prepared on Wednesday to rubber-stamp the $298 million settlement between Barclays Bank and the Justice Department to resolve allegations the bank violated government sanctions in processing financial transactions with countries that include Cuba, Iran and Sudan.
Intel said on Thursday that it has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 billion in cash, as the chip giant seeks to expand its presence in security services.
A Brazilian agricultural company has been fined $2.8 million for employing 180 slave laborers, among them adolescents, the government-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported Wednesday.
A Muslim woman who works as a hostess at a Disney-owned restaurant filed a discrimination complaint against the entertainment giant Wednesday, saying they have repeatedly sent her home without pay for refusing to remove her headscarf at work.
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