OCT
25
2010

Patent Litigation Survey 2010: an unexpected turn

Judging by the results of the 2010 edition of our annual Patent Litigation Survey, you might not guess that the number of patent suits filed in federal court fell last year.

OCT
22
2010

Lehman, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Mattel, Hewlett-Packard in court news

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck said he never approved the final details of how billions of dollars of assets were to be distributed in bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.´s sale of its brokerage to Barclays Plc.

OCT
22
2010

Why businesses are fed up with their law firms

From powerful corporations to fragile startups, companies across the country are fed up with the traditional law firm.

OCT
22
2010

Sign law sent back to City Council

A new sign ordinance that some say would dramatically alter the Cambridge skyline is in doubt this week after a coalition collected enough signatures to force the City Council to either rescind the law or put the issue before voters next year.

OCT
22
2010

Law change may keep The Hobbit in New Zealand

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key flagged possible changes to industrial laws today in a last-ditch bid to persuade Hollywood studios to shoot Peter Jackson´s "Hobbit" movies in the country.

OCT
22
2010

Spain sues Google for WiFi data capture while taking Street View photographs

While the UK and Ireland have cleared Google of having inadvertantly collected data over WiFi data during Street View photography, the California company may face 2.4 million euros in fines in Spain.

OCT
22
2010

Lindsay Lohan due back in criminal court for hearing on recent failed drug test

Lindsay Lohan is returning to familiar territory — a criminal court to face a judge who could send her back to jail or rehab for a failed drug test.

OCT
22
2010

Offence charge first in 150 years

A Sydney ice addict has become the first person in more than 150 years to be sentenced by a NSW court for the "unusual" offence of offering indignity to a dead human body.

OCT
22
2010

Cost of recalls fall hard on chemists

Chemists are again crying foul over yet another drug recall that they say they are bearing the cost of, instead of the drug companies.

OCT
22
2010

Shooting the messenger

Reporters are notorious for shrugging off danger to get a good story. So when El Diario, a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, ran a front-page editorial last month asking for guidelines from drug gangs as to what it should censor, journalists around the world were shocked.

OCT
22
2010

Williams´ tearful plea for forgiveness falls on deaf ears

Minutes before being driven to Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario where he will likely spend the rest of his days, Williams surprised the packed courtroom by accepting Justice Robert Scott´s invitation to speak — a pre-sentencing formality convicted criminals regularly decline.

OCT
21
2010

Tribes, feds work to implement law and order act

Tribal officials and others gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., for a national symposium hope a new federal law will help them better understand and address the problem of violent crime in Indian Country.

OCT
21
2010

Lawyers to be kept out of divorce battles

Lawyers will be kept out of thousands of family dispute cases every year in a shake-up of divorce laws.

OCT
21
2010

Justice Thomas´ wife says healthcare law is unconstitutional

Virginia Thomas is working to repeal the law through Liberty Central, a conservative group she founded. Her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas, could provide a key vote to strike down the law.

OCT
21
2010

Saudi prince gets at least 20 years in slaying

A British court sentenced a Saudi prince to at least 20 years in prison yesterday for beating and strangling one of his servants at a swank British hotel in a case that featured days of lurid testimony about their abusive relationship.

OCT
21
2010

AmEx courts merchants, aims to avoid ´Boston fee party´ repeat

American Express Co., the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, aims to win over retailers as it fights U.S. antitrust claims and seeks to avoid a repeat of a 1991 merchant revolt known as the "Boston Fee Party."

OCT
21
2010

Unilever´s Sara Lee deal needs `extra care,´ European Union´s Almunia says

Unilever´s planned acquisition of Sara Lee Corp.’s body-care unit is being scrutinized with "extra care" by the European Union, Joaquin Almunia, its antitrust commissioner, said today.

OCT
21
2010

Judge rules for injured Seattle firefighter

A Seattle judge has refused to throw out a nearly $13 million judgment given to a disabled Seattle firefighter.

OCT
21
2010

Man´s 27 years in jail for rape he didn´t commit may net him $2m

A man who spent 27 years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been formally found to be innocent by Texas´ highest criminal court.

OCT
21
2010

Brazil presidential candidate Serra hit during scuffle

Brazilian presidential candidate Jose Serra was hit on the head by an object while out campaigning in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 31 October run-off vote.

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