In the Supreme Court´s divided order allowing the execution of an Arizona murderer, the justices spurned arguments about the safety of a lethal injection mix and appear to have allowed the first U.S. execution using a drug from a foreign country.
A territorial feud that sounds like something out of the African savannah has erupted in rural Tennessee between Carol Buckley, one of the world’s leading authorities on elephant rehabilitation, and the sanctuary she co-founded 15 years ago.
In the countryside, in the suburbs or even in the leafier districts of New York´s outer boroughs, a treehouse would hardly raise an eyebrow. But in a historic Manhattan neighborhood whose residents have included Mark Twain and Eleanor Roosevelt, it raised hackles.
HSBC Holdings Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were accused in an investor´s lawsuit of placing "spoof" trading orders to manipulate silver futures and options prices in violation of U.S. antitrust law.
A lawyer for the New York state Department of Civil Service was arrested last week for allegedly threatening a black woman and a "little black boy" in separate phone calls over the summer.
Two movies based on The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand as planned, the country´s prime minister has confirmed.
Who´s making the greatest impact on the practice area right now? Interviews with dozens of professionals who work in the field yielded several answers upon which everyone seemed to agree, plus a few that just might surprise you.
Dutch supermodel Lara Stone has won ´´significant´´ damages from French Playboy after the magazine published unauthorised photographs of her.
The lawyer for a young Florida woman who was known for unstoppable hiccups and is now accused of murder said Tuesday he may present an unusual defense in her case: His client has Tourette´s Syndrome.
The lawyers representing a class of Native American farmers and ranchers say they are confident the claims process that is part of a $760 million settlement will not have the same problems that plagued a similar suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Town of Framingham has agreed to pay a local antipoverty agency $1 million to settle a lawsuit in which the agency contended that town officials illegally blocked its activities by violating the civil rights of its poor and disabled clients and tried to prevent it from building a center for recovering drug addicts.
Health regulator says blanket measures introduced in the name of patient security may infringe human rights law.
The deal includes a $150 million criminal fine, which includes a $10 million forfeiture of assets, plus a $600 million civil settlement.
A California appeals court rejected the challenge by Michael Jackson´s father of the two men named by the late pop star to run his estate.
A California appeals court rejected the challenge by Michael Jackson´s father of the two men named by the late pop star to run his estate.
Popular online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a U.S. federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.
Don´t hold your breath waiting for a reconciliation between celebrity couples like the recently separated Courteney Cox and David Arquette, or Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman.
With just three days´ notice to the staff, Mike Godwin left his job as Wikimedia Foundation´s general counsel on Friday.
On November 2, Americans will cast their votes in what will be the first official review of President Barack Obama´s performance.
The Rancho Cucamonga firm accuses the agency of illegally quarantining two shipments from China of the ingredient it needs to pursue work on producing a generic form of the blood thinner Lovenox.
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