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A federal judge sentenced former Enron Broadband Services executive Rex Shelby to two years probation Monday on charges of insider trading.
Singer-songwriter and marijuana enthusiast Willie Nelson could have faced a lengthy jail term after he was arrested for possession in November.
Walumba Lumba and Kadian Mighty, from Congo and Jamaica, were unlawfully imprisoned for two years, supreme court rules.
Dorothea Montalvo Puente, the Sacramento landlady convicted in 1993 of killing three of her tenants to collect their government checks and burying them in her backyard, died on Sunday at a prison in Central California. She was 82.
One of the innumerable perques of being a Supreme Court justice: You get called to participate in these little pieces of legal theater, in which historical events are re-tried, or fictional characters are called to court to answer for their behavior.
Two neighbours in the US state of Mississippi drew weapons and fired at each other as an argument over a defecating dog ran out of control.
Microsoft Corp. said it filed patent-infringement claims Monday against Barnes & Noble Inc., seeking to block U.S. imports of the Nook e-reader, right, in the latest legal dispute over the Android operating system.
Lobsang Sangay grew up in a Tibetan refugee settlement in Darjeeling, India.
Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court justices, is embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a "therapy dog" named Monty along with the library’s collection of more than one million books.
BP Plc asked a Texas judge to throw out lawsuits by some institutional investors on the grounds that their claims that company mismanagement caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should be tried in British courts.
The Street and investors are heavily favoring the US over global markets, but some interesting technical signals are now suggesting good buying opportunities in Brazil.
Six Brazilian labor confederations have expressed their solidarity with public employees in Wisconsin and other states that are fighting to defend collective bargaining rights.
The ECHR ruled Thursday that an Italian policeman´s fatal shooting of a demonstrator at the 2001 G8 Genoa summit, was in self-defence and that the case had been properly investigated by authorities.
A civil court in Rio de Janeiro is allowing a woman who claims to be the daughter of Brazilian soul singer Tim Maia to exhume his body and conduct a paternity test.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a death row inmate who faces execution after a mailroom mix-up at one of the nation’s most prominent law firms.
The new chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission recently announced that it may implement a whistle-blower program as part of a concerted effort to enhance its enforcement regime.
The misguided attempt by Gov. Rick Scott and some legislators to dismantle Florida´s program for monitoring high-powered narcotics has created a window of opportunity.
The No Child Left Behind Act has been deadly to public education. So why has the president embraced it?
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