MAR
29
2011

GSI going... going... sold to eBay for $2.4 billion

Congratulations, eBay Inc., your bid has been accepted.

MAR
29
2011
MAR
29
2011

Sentencing of final Enron executive ends 8-year proceedings

A federal judge sentenced former Enron Broadband Services executive Rex Shelby to two years probation Monday on charges of insider trading.

MAR
28
2011

Judge offers to let Willie Nelson off drugs jail sentence

Singer-songwriter and marijuana enthusiast Willie Nelson could have faced a lengthy jail term after he was arrested for possession in November.

MAR
28
2011

Immigration detainees win £1 damages

Walumba Lumba and Kadian Mighty, from Congo and Jamaica, were unlawfully imprisoned for two years, supreme court rules.

MAR
28
2011

Dorothea Puente, murderous landlady, dies at 82

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.

MAR
28
2011

To judge trials on fictional characters or not to judge them? that is the question.

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.

MAR
28
2011

Defecating dog sparks US shootout

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.

MAR
25
2011

Microsoft seeking to block U.S. imports of Barnes & Noble´s Nook e-reader

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.

MAR
25
2011

Harvard Law fellow set to lead Tibetans

Lobsang Sangay grew up in a Tibetan refugee settlement in Darjeeling, India.

MAR
25
2011

For law students with everything, dog therapy for stress

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.

MAR
25
2011

BP investors’ lawsuits must be filed in U.K., company claims

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.

MAR
25
2011

Time to buy Brazil

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.

MAR
25
2011

Brazilian unions support Wisconsin workers

Six Brazilian labor confederations have expressed their solidarity with public employees in Wisconsin and other states that are fighting to defend collective bargaining rights.

MAR
25
2011

Court rules in Italy´s favour over demonstrator´s killing

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.

MAR
24
2011

Court OKs exhumation of Brazilian singer Tim Maia

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.

MAR
24
2011

Court to hear case stalled by mistake in mailroom

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.

MAR
24
2011

Should we pay for whistle-blowing?

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.

MAR
24
2011

A new, improved pill mill bill

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.

MAR
24
2011

Obama´s war on schools

The No Child Left Behind Act has been deadly to public education. So why has the president embraced it?

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