JAN
10
2011

Court to hear drug data-mining case

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may prohibit the use of drug prescription records for marketing purposes in one of several new cases it accepted Friday.

JAN
7
2011

The European Union has few legal means to stop Hungary´s leaders from eroding democracy

The rotating presidency of the European Union is, mercifully, a much-diminished affair, as a result of the Lisbon treaty.

JAN
7
2011

Is Facebook really worth $50 billion?

Together with Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russian group, Goldman invested a total of $500m in Facebook, valuing the world´s most popular social network at a whopping $50 billion.

JAN
7
2011

Facebook forced to disclose financials

Facebook will be forced by law to start coughing up details of its financial performance or go public by April 2012, according to a published report.

JAN
7
2011

US judge dispels Harry Potter plagiarism suit

A US federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit alleging the wildly successful Harry Potter books were plagiarized from a story from a little-known British author.

JAN
7
2011

Feminist judge brings new perspectives to Germany´s highest court

Holding a spot as a judge in the Constitutional Court is a particularly respected office in Germany. The body´s newest judge is a young, unconventional feminist who brings new perspectives to the court.

JAN
7
2011

Franco family to be sued over failed heart transplant four decades ago

Daughter of patient claims operation was carried out for political reasons.

JAN
7
2011

Romanian witches cast spells on government over income tax

Romanian witches angry about having pay income tax for the first time hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River to cast spells on the president and government.

JAN
7
2011

Nick Clegg: ´Chilling´ libel laws will be overhauled

Libel laws that have a "chilling" effect on free speech and debate will be overhauled, Nick Clegg will promise today.

JAN
7
2011

Most convictions thrown out in Anna Nicole Smith drug trial

A judge clears her companion, psychiatrist and physician of all guilty verdicts except one misdemeanor conviction. L.A. County district attorney says he will seek to have the ruling overturned.

JAN
7
2011

Wikileaks: Latin America doesn´t trust China

New cables revealed in El Pais, a Madrid daily, show how Latin American countries are increasingly wary of China´s growing presence in the region.

JAN
6
2011

New Alzheimer´s law aims to coordinate efforts, strategy

Alzheimer´s disease, already a national epidemic according to experts, got a lift this week.

JAN
6
2011

South Korea joins outcry over Google´s collection of personal info

Google Inc. collected e-mails and other personal information from unsecured wireless networks in South Korea while taking photographs for its Street View mapping service, police said Thursday.

JAN
6
2011

Courtney Love sued for defamation

In the past, rocker Courtney Love has gotten away with her Twitter rants about Brittney Spears, actor Edward Norton and other Hollywood foes, but herpostsaboutclothingdesigner Dawn Simorangkir have led to a defamation lawsuit, the Hollywood Reporter reported Wednesday.

JAN
6
2011

Lohan didn´t violate probation: lawyer

Lindsay Lohan´s lawyer on Tuesday slammed police for saying the actress violated her probation in a skirmish with a worker at the California rehab centre where she spent three months in treatment.

JAN
6
2011

Hungary PM ´ready to change´ media law if EU demands

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said his government is prepared to change the country´s controversial new media law if required by the EU.

JAN
6
2011

28,000 prisoners will have right to vote

Inmates serving sentences of less than four years can take part in future elections after 140-year-old ban is lifted.

JAN
6
2011

Judge to Oracle Directors: you don´t get to decide where you can be sued

Corporate directors may be the overlords of the companies whose boards they sit on, but they don´t have the power to control the venue for derivative suits against them, according to a decision Monday in a San Francisco federal district court shareholder suit against Oracle´s directors.

JAN
6
2011

Toyota wins ruling against former in-house attorney Dimitrios Biller

Toyota´s long-running battle with former in-house lawyer Dimitrios Biller appears to be over, and the automaker won a complete victory.

JAN
5
2011

Citigroup´s Pandit, local head cleared in Indian $66 million fraud probe

Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and Pramit Jhaveri, head of the bank´s Indian unit, were cleared by local police of involvement in an alleged $66 million fraud at its branch in Gurgaon.

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