A man who was convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport has said he will take his case to the High Court.
A Canadian court has begun hearings on whether Canada´s anti-polygamy law violates rights to freedom of religion guaranteed by the constitution.
Merck on Friday won a signature jury trial against Judith Graves, a Florida woman who had sued the company and claimed that its osteoporosis drug, Fosamax, caused her jawbone to disintegrate.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." However, with battalions of highly paid "tax professionals" searching for ways around tax legislation for multi-national corporations (MNCs) and wealthy individuals, taxes are not as inevitable as Franklin envisaged.
Military records indicate that President-elect Dilma Rousseff once oversaw a cache of weapons and ammunition for militants who opposed Brazil´s 1964-1985 military regime, a major newspaper reported Saturday.
Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artefacts to Peru taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.
The trial of ten accused Somali pirates has opened in a Hamburg state court, seven months after the attack on the container ship ´Taipan.´
The 48-year-old actor was ordered by a federal judge on Friday to surrender to authorities immediately and begin serving a three-year prison sentence for tax-related crimes.
The son of an elderly Whanganui woman who was killed in a hit and run says his mother was "wiped out" by the crash, which threw her up in the air and over a fence.
The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is planning to expand a crackdown on advertising using foreign words, with initial hearings in a spate of recent cases expected this week.
With just 3,200 tigers left in the wild, top politicians from 13 countries where the big cats still roam gathered Sunday for the St. Petersburg Tiger Forum to discuss a $330 million plan to save the species.
A Florida woman claims a debt collector went far beyond the usual phone calls in an attempt to recoup $362 for an unpaid car loan by sending her messages on Facebook -- and by telling family on the social networking site to have her call the agency.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamiltonon Friday announced its intentions to open an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2011, subject to approval of Brazilian authorities.
Lord chief justice responds to suggestion judges are ´giving up´ trying to stop juries using Google, Facebook and Twitter.
The U.S. Senate is expected to approve roughly $4.5 billion Friday for a settlement between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers reached more than a decade ago, according to Senate sources.
Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded.
Raymond Stauffer went shopping one day and wound up suing Brooks Brothers Inc. for tens of millions of dollars because the bow tie he bought had an expired patent number on it.
Two years ago, David Baer was flying high. The 35-year-old was general counsel of Petters Group Worldwide, had a wife and two dogs, and he´d recently been named one of Minnesota´s attorneys of the year by Minnesota Lawyer. How did he do it all? With stimulants, according to the FBI.
Concerned that the current Supreme Court has too many Ivy League easterners in its ranks, a noted judicial scholar and former Justice Department official is calling on Congress to reject new nominees who don´t bring greater geographic and background diversity to the Court.
Focused on promoting investment in the infrastructure sector in Brazil, a conference takes place on December 3, 2010, featuring panels and debates directed by Brazilian and American speakers.
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