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23
2010

Lawyer is suspended over forged car registration

An attorney who drove a car with a forged registration sticker for three years has been suspended from the practice of law for three months.

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23
2010

Steven Spielberg wins court battle over Rear Window copy claim

The film director Steven Spielberg has won his two-year legal battle against claims that his DreamWorks studio film Disturbia had stolen the plot from Alfred Hitchcock´s classic Rear Window.

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22
2010

Google not allowed to continue its ´Street View´ due to its privacy invasion

The Czech Republic has refused to grant Google permission to expand its "Street View" because the mapping feature invades peoples´ privacy, the government´s privacy watchdog said Wednesday.

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22
2010

Congolese judges freeze assets of German development organization

The German Society for Technological Cooperation, or GTZ, has become the victim of the judicial system in DR Congo. The case shows that corruption is still a major problem in helping Africa help itself.

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22
2010

Angry passengers smash trains in Brazil

Passengers, angry about slow service, took out their frustration on trains in Sao Paulo, Brazil, bashing windows and damaging at least 17 train cars Tuesday, an official told the national broadcaster.

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22
2010

Australia & New Zealand bank sued by customers over credit card, late fees

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Australia’s third biggest lender by market value, was sued by customers seeking to recoup about A$50 million ($48 million) of bank charges.

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22
2010

EU lawmakers approve new supervisors for banking, securities and insurance

European Union lawmakers approved measures to create pan-EU supervisors for banking, securities and insurance firms.

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22
2010

US Supreme Court clears way for execution of woman in Va. for first time in nearly a century

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block the execution of a woman convicted of two hired killings, clearing the way for the state´s first execution of a woman in nearly a century.

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22
2010

Georgia baby sitter, 11, charged in death

An 11-year-old baby sitter in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, has been charged in the death of a 2-year-old, authorities said.

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21
2010

Oil company fined in royalty case

Nearly seven years after a government auditor charged that an oil company had cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties, a federal judge has ordered the company to pay nearly $23 million in penalties — including $5.7 million to the auditor who uncovered the problem.

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21
2010

EU Court limits access to agencies´ legal documents until after judgments

European Union agencies can restrict public access to documents they file in lawsuits until after cases are decided, the EU´s highest court ruled.

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21
2010

Google says Brazil, Libya make most demands to pull content from internet

Google Inc. was asked by Brazilian officials to remove content from the Web 398 times in the first half of the year, the most by a government, according to a report published today by the Internet-search company.

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21
2010

Law officers split on California legal pot fight

California´s fall ballot battle over legalizing pot is drawing law-enforcement officials to both sides of the issue. Beer sellers want to stop legal marijuana, too, but say it´s not because they fear competition.

SEP
21
2010

Judge orders Lindsay Lohan arrest

Judges in the US have issued an arrest warrant for actress Lindsay Lohan, who has admitted failing a drugs test just weeks after being freed from jail.

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21
2010

Scandal puts bumps in path of Brazil leader´s protégée

Until last week, Dilma Rousseff, the candidate hand-picked by Brazil´s president to succeed him, appeared to be cruising to an easy first-round victory in an election next month that would make her the first woman to become president in the country´s history.

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21
2010

$350 million UnitedHealth class action settlement approved

A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a $350 million class action settlement with UnitedHealth Group Inc., awarding $89 million in attorney fees and expenses along the way.

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21
2010

International Criminal Court to start prosecutions in Kenya´s postelection violence

The International Criminal Court will launch cases against as many as six suspected instigators of postelection violence in Kenya that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2007-08, the chief prosecutor announced Tuesday.

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21
2010

Brazil offers Cuba help to develop small businesses

Brazil´s foreign minister says his country has offered to help Cuba develop small and medium businesses as part of a drive for economic growth.

SEP
20
2010

Britain to allow voting in prisons

British prison inmates are poised to win the right to vote in a decision set to inflame tensions within the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Government.

SEP
20
2010

Man accused of killing his wife set to use a caffeine insanity defense

A Kentucky man charged with strangling his wife with an extension cord is set today to claim temporary insanity triggered by excessive caffeine from diet pills, sodas and energy drinks.

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