Prosecutors in Colombia say they will investigate the treatment of prisoners at one of the country´s military jails, after a news magazine reported they were being given special privileges.
Brazil´s government emphatically refused on Tuesday to suspend work on a huge hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, despite pleas that the project could displace tens of thousands of indigenous people and cause environmental harm.
Brazilian STF president Cezar Peluso presented a proposal to create a University of Public Security and Social Development to 40 specialists in a Rockfeller Foundation meeting, in Italy.
A group of plaintiffs from 13 countries can´t join U.S. litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden unintended acceleration of its vehicles, said a judge coordinating hundreds of lawsuits against the automaker.
Google Inc. (GOOG)´s dominance of the Internet-search industry is being considered for a broad antitrust investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, two people familiar with the matter said.
His name is not on any campus buildings. His only portrait is stored in a locked closet. And after his scandal-driven downfall, Richard M. Nixon was so stigmatized here at Duke University — where he earned a law degree — that the faculty rejected a proposal to house his presidential library.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating whether numerous smartphone applications illegally obtained or transmitted information about their users without proper disclosures, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A teacher who called himself the "Salford stallion" has been jailed for having sex with under-age pupils.
A brand marketing company that brokered a deal for Britney Spears´ fragrance line sued the singer and her father Wednesday, claiming the pair secured a new deal that stinks to the tune of more than $10m.
French couple who refused to take their sick and undernourished daughter to hospital were sentenced to five years in jail.
Leisz has been awarded $115,000.00 for a botched eye cosmetic procedure by a jury in Paramus, N.J.
Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) has won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving consumers into believing its Diet Coke Plus cola drink is healthy.
Toyota Motor Corp is not responsible for causing a New York doctor´s 2005 Scion to accelerate unexpectedly and smash into a tree, a federal jury ruled on Friday.
Brazil´s biggest bank - the state-run Banco do Brasil - is being sued for allegedly funding deforestation in the Amazon.
Losing a law suit is painful. Being landed with an inflated bill for the other side´s costs makes it worse.
Germany is pushing for the European Union to impose an export ban for a lethal injection drug used in several U.S. states, the country´s human rights commissioner said Friday.
Rules for foreign lawyers working in Russia are about to change — but only as a byproduct of a sweeping reform of the country´s underregulated legal service market that the government has in the works.
Microsoft said today that it filed a complaint against Google with the European Commission over its anticompetitive practices and domination of the region´s search market.
Workers who routinely pull ´sickies´ may be dissuaded from doing so by employment law changes that come into effect tomorrow, an employment lawyer says.
Six years on since India´s RTI came into force, it has unleashed a spate of violence, and many activists struggling for transparency and openness have been facing dangerous threats.
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