New Hampshire´s Executive Council will vote this week on whether to confirm Linda Dalianis (dah-LAY´-nuhs) as the state Supreme Court´s first female chief justice.
For the first Amendment and its friends, this has been a fine year. It began with a less-than-momentous but welcome Supreme Court ruling that Barack Obama called "devastating to the public interest."
Homeowners struggling to sell their property despite falling house prices and a shortage of buyers have been reminded by the Court of Appeal that they can only give one estate agent sole rights to the sale – or be forced to pay twice for the service.
France´s richest woman and her daughter have resolved a protracted legal dispute over more than euro1 billion ($1.3 billion) that swelled into a national scandal and raised questions about the future of the family fortune, the daughter´s lawyer said Monday.
Actor Wesley Snipes is asking the federal judge who ordered him to report to prison by Dec. 9th, to let him put off the start of his three year sentence on tax charges until Jan. 6th. In an “Emergency Motion To Stay Self Surrender” filed Friday, Snipes argues that as the father of four children, aged 4 to 9, he shouldn’t be forced to turn himself in “in the middle of the holiday season.”
EU justice ministers have paved the way for European divorce regulations aimed at simplifying the legal process of divorce for binational couples. If adopted, the new rules would take effect in 2012.
Berlin has called for increased protection of online personal data ahead of a national IT summit. The Internet can not be a lawless space without rules, Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned.
A man talking on his mobile phone ended his call and then ended up in hospital.
Serious lapses in prison security were uncovered after an inmate secretly recorded jail life on his mobile phone and sent it to a news network.
Two Auckland prison guards have today been charged with smuggling contraband into jail for inmates.
Any day without warning, Linda Carty could get news that a judge in Houston has signed a piece of paper naming the date on which she is be executed by lethal injection.
A decade after a supersonic Concorde jet crashed in a fiery wreck outside Paris soon after takeoff, killing 113 people, a French court will finally rule on who - if anyone - is to blame.
A member of the House of Commons Defense Committee said Sunday that his Russian assistant is facing deportation as a suspected spy.
Awarding Russia the right to host the World Cup in 2018 was, in fact, the best outcome. FIFA’s decision, reached amid claims and counter-claims of corruption, puts Russia on the spot once and for all to clean up its reputation.
HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe´s biggest lender, was sued for $9 billion over claims it aided Bernard Madoff´s fraud through a network of feeder funds in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America.
Despite upbeat forecasts earlier this week, the monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows slower than expected growth in the private sector, and a significant drop in jobs in the legal sector.
A key U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday approved a bill to protect unique fashion designs -such as the eye-catching, one-of-a-kind dresses worn on the Oscars red carpet -from copycat manufacturers.
Everydns.net says attack against leaks site endangered other customers´ service – effectively pushing site off the internet.
A police officer has told a court that he assumed off-duty officer Clint Hill had assaulted a man who was subsequently run over by a truck after several events that evening.
Germany has unveiled plans to tighten Internet privacy, including opt-out rights on geo-location services and a ban on services that build profiles. The new rules were drafted after an outcry over Google Street View.
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