FEB
22
2011

From a book review to a criminal trial in France

In a little more than a week, a court in Paris will decide whether a law professor in New York committed criminal libel by publishing a book review.

FEB
22
2011

Penn. judge convicted in ´for profit´ scheme also faces lawsuit

A Pennsylvania judge recently convicted for putting juveniles into "for profit" detention centers is being sued, a civil rights attorney said Monday.

FEB
22
2011

Defense minister renounces doctorate over plagiarism accusations

In the midst of an ongoing investigation regarding plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has given up his doctor title for good.

FEB
22
2011

Desperate Gaddafi clings to Power

An increasingly desperate Muammer Gaddafi was clinging to power with brutal force on Tuesday after protests against his regime hit Tripoli, Libya’s capital, and supporters abandoned him.

FEB
21
2011

A cookie paste squeezed in the middle of a debate

What happens when you take a classic cookie, give it the reality-TV treatment and market the result worldwide?

FEB
21
2011

TV series tries to revive civil rights cold cases

The murder has never been solved: On Feb. 27, 1967, Wharlest Jackson, a father of five and the treasurer of the Natchez, Miss., branch of the N.A.A.C.P., was killed by a car bomb, making him just one of dozens of victims of racial violence during the civil rights era.

FEB
21
2011

Bristol gay couple win Cornwall B&B bed ban case

The owners of a hotel who refused to allow a gay couple a double room acted unlawfully, a judge has ruled.

FEB
21
2011

Parents say Cassez´s days numbered if left in Mexican prison

The parents of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping, said in an interview published Saturday that their daughter won´t survive much longer in a Mexican prison.

FEB
21
2011

Yemen President reconsiders juvenile death penalty

Appeals submitted by several local and international organizations have been answered when President Ali Abdullah Saleh decided to reconsider the death sentence of Mohamed Taher al-Sumom, 25.

FEB
21
2011

Wikileaks doesn´t fear about the possible demand

The legal adviser to the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University do not fear about a possible denunciation of the U.S. authorities against his client in making public secret documents.

FEB
21
2011

How tough will Dilma be?

The new government sets out to cool an overheating economy.

FEB
18
2011

European court needs British president if it wants credibility in the UK

European court of human rights should make Sir Nicolas Bratza its president to dispel notion the UK is in thrall to a foreign body.

FEB
18
2011

Prisoners´ vote compensation claims blocked by high court

Almost 600 prisoners denied right to vote in 2010 general election have launched legal action.

FEB
18
2011

Fashionistas on the Leash

It´s Fashion Week in New York, and, amazingly, I actually got into one of those fabled tents. For a legal journalist, that´s no mean feat.

FEB
18
2011

In privacy battle, Facebook has unusual D.C. footprint

Though it has a small lobbying staff, Facebook has lots of ´friends´ in government because politicians like to use its network.

FEB
18
2011

Freed defendant blasts prosecutors in $150 million suit

Jabbar Collins, the jailhouse lawyer whose dogged investigation persuaded a federal judge to free him after he had served 15 years in prison for murder, sued New York City, Brooklyn prosecutors and city detectives for $150 million in damages yesterday.

FEB
18
2011

Tobacco company sues D.C. over cigar wrapper law

The company that makes the Zig-Zag brand of tobacco rolling papers wants a federal judge to stop the District of Columbia from enforcing a new law that effectively bans the sale of cigar wrappers.

FEB
18
2011

A court in Ecuador controversially fines Chevron a whopping $9 billion

Chevron is a "multinational monster", says Ecuador´s populist president, Rafael Correa. Various celebrities agree. And at first glance, it does look like the story of a nasty big American corporation polluting a poor country and then refusing to pay for the damage. But the case is in fact rather more complicated than that.

FEB
18
2011

New plans to blur the line between civil partnerships and marriage

Britain took a small step this week towards eroding the legal distinction between gays and straights in the matter of matrimony.

FEB
18
2011

The buys from Brazil

This year’s hot market for private-equity firms and hedge-fund managers.

voltar para o topo