AUG
27
2010

The miracle of the cerrado

Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?

AUG
27
2010

Federal judge sanctions tech company over handling of e-discovery

A federal judge has sanctioned a leading developer of "flash drive" technology for its mishandling of electronic discovery in what the judge called a "David and Goliath-like" struggle.

AUG
26
2010

Paul Weiss and Lowenstein ordered to pay $1.96 million for filing frivolous suit against Ron Perelman´s in-laws

Bergen County, N.J., Superior Court Judge Ellen Koblitz doesn´t seem too worried about sparing the reputations of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Lowenstein Sandler.

AUG
26
2010

Nuremberg laws handed over to US national archives

The Nuremberg Laws, which laid the legal groundwork for the execution of six million Jews during the Holocaust, have been handed over to the US National Archives.

AUG
26
2010

Wal-Mart asks Supreme Court to hear bias suit

Wal-Mart Stores asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in American history, involving more than a million female workers, current and former, at Wal-Mart and Sam´s Club stores.

AUG
26
2010

Brazil Court orders banks to refund depositors decade-old savings losses

Brazil´s Superior Court of Justice reaffirmed a decision ordering banks to refund depositors losses stemming from four government anti-inflation plans almost two decades ago. A banking group estimates the refund, if upheld, could cost as much as 180 billion reais ($102 billion).

AUG
26
2010

Rights advocate jailed in Moscow

A Russian court on Wednesday sent a leading human rights activist and Kremlin critic to jail for three days for taking part in an unsanctioned protest demonstration in Moscow on Sunday, one of the organizers of the protest said.

AUG
26
2010

Prosecutors launch criminal inquiry into Romanian maternity hospital

Romanian authorities have launched a criminal inquiry into a Bucharest maternity hospital where five newborns died and six others were injured in a fire last week, the chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation said Wednesday.

AUG
26
2010

Iran journalist Isa Saharkhiz sues Nokia after phone call landed him in jail

An Iranian journalist is suing phone company Nokia over surveillance technology that helped Iranian authorities track and arrest him, the ABC reported today.

AUG
26
2010

Germany weighs bill to outlaw spying on employees

A draft bill in Germany would crack down on employers who use hidden cameras or social networking to spy on employees. Germany would become the first country to forbid Facebook content to be used for hiring purposes.

AUG
26
2010

Claiming excessive fees, patent holder sues law firms for $10 million

A retired university professor who has pursued dozens of electronics companies for patent infringement on Monday filed a notice to sue her former attorneys for $10 million, accusing them of misusing escrow funds and charging her excessive fees.

AUG
26
2010

India parliament passes civil nuclear power bill

India´s lower house of parliament has approved a law that opens its nuclear power market to private investment.

AUG
26
2010

Indonesia Playboy editor faces jail over ruling

The former editor of Indonesian Playboy could face two years in jail after Indonesian prosecutors said they would enforce a 2009 Supreme Court ruling.

AUG
26
2010

German pop star gets suspended sentence in HIV case

The high-profile case of German pop singer Nadja Benaissa, who was charged with aggravated assault for having unprotected sex while she knew she was HIV positive, has ended in a two-year suspended sentence.

AUG
26
2010

Asil Nadir arrives in UK to face fraud charges

Polly Peck tycoon and Conservative party donor who fled Britain 17 years ago lands at Luton airport.

AUG
25
2010

Barnes & Noble swings to a loss after legal costs

US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has reported a loss between April and June, in part due to legal costs incurred in a battle with a major shareholder.

AUG
25
2010

Blackwater fined $42m for breaking US export laws

Private defence company Blackwater has been fined $42m (£27m) for violating US export and arms traffic laws.

AUG
25
2010

Hacker´s arrest offers peek into crime in Russia

On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by the United States Secret Service.

AUG
25
2010

Stem cell labs, dashed by ruling, may look again to private donors

The National Institutes of Health said yesterday it will not award new grants or renew existing ones for research on human embryonic stem cells after a federal judge temporarily halted the Obama administration’s expansion of federal funding for this research.

AUG
25
2010

Europe steps up criticism of France´s Roma policy

A series of meetings to discuss France´s treatment of its Roma community begin with the visit of two Romanian ministers to France on Wednesday. The French policy is drawing heavy criticizm from across Europe.

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