Anyone convicted of certain sex offenses against a child in California will get life in prison without parole starting Thursday, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed "Chelsea´s Law."
A U.S. appeals court overturns a Pennsylvania city law that punishes landlords for renting to illegal immigrants and employers for hiring them.
A Delaware Chancery Court judge has ruled in favor of eBay in a shareholder suit against Craigslist and majority shareholders Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark.
The parents of a 15-year-old American girl are seeking to get their daughter back after she ran away with her boyfriend to Brazil, where authorities handed her over to the boyfriend´s family.
Barring a political cataclysm, on October 3rd Dilma Rousseff will be elected Brazil’s next president. Thanks to the support of the wildly popular incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the technocratic 62-year-old is expected to trounce her only serious rival, José Serra of the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB).
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the start of Latin America’s struggle for political independence against the Spanish crown. Outsiders might be forgiven for concluding that there is not much to celebrate.
A woman who fell ill as a result of breathing "toxic" air on an aircraft has been awarded damages by the Australian High Court.
A federal appeals court on Thursday permitted federal funding of stem cell research to proceed temporarily until the court rules on the merits of the Obama administration´s position in the case.
A small American church´s plan to burn copies of the Quran is stirring outrage in Muslim nations, with lawyers protesting in Pakistan and Bahrain´s government calling the burning a shameful attack on interfaith relations.
A former bodyguard for pop star Britney Spears has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her.
A spurned wife has won £3.7million in compensation from her husband’s mistress for breaking up their marriage.
Euro MPs have called on France to suspend immediately its controversial deportations of Roma (Gypsies).
Britain´s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation in the United States.
Animal experiments will be reduced in number and subject to stricter regulations across Europe.
A bill giving same-sex couples the right to adopt has been passed by the NSW parliament, after the Legislative Council voted in support of a last-minute amendment to the legislation.
The Spanish government has approved labour market reforms that make it cheaper and easier to lay off workers.
The United Steelworkers union plans to file a legal case with the Obama administration on Thursday, accusing China of violating World Trade Organization rules by subsidizing exports of clean energy equipment, the union’s president and his advisers said.
A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been detained by the authorities.
Politicised voting and a lack of transparency has led to unqualified judges taking key positions, study claims.
The September issue of The American Lawyer offers a preview of the Real Rate Report, a study produced by CT TyMetrix Inc., a company that audits law firm bills, and The Corporate Executive Board Co., a company that provides best practices research and analysis.
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