APR
6
2011

Colombia investigates military jail ´special treatment´

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.

APR
6
2011

Brazil rejects panel´s request to stop dam

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.

APR
6
2011

University of Public Security and Social Development

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.

APR
5
2011

Toyota beats bid by Asia, Europe plaintiffs to join acceleration lawsuits

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.

APR
5
2011

Google said to be possible target of U.S. FTC antitrust probe

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.

APR
5
2011

Duke law students give musical nod to Nixon

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.

APR
5
2011

Mobile-app makers face U.S. privacy investigation

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.

APR
5
2011

´Salford stallion´ teacher jailed for sex with pupils

A teacher who called himself the "Salford stallion" has been jailed for having sex with under-age pupils.

APR
5
2011

Britney Spears sued for $10M over fragrance deal

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.

APR
5
2011

Joel and Sergine Le Moaligou convicted of causing child´s death

French couple who refused to take their sick and undernourished daughter to hospital were sentenced to five years in jail.

APR
4
2011

Eye surgery error in New Jersey

Leisz has been awarded $115,000.00 for a botched eye cosmetic procedure by a jury in Paramus, N.J.

APR
4
2011

Coca-Cola wins dismissal of Diet Coke Plus lawsuit

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.

APR
4
2011

Toyota wins 1st U.S. jury verdict over acceleration

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.

APR
4
2011

Brazil banks sued for Amazon deforestation

Brazil´s biggest bank - the state-run Banco do Brasil - is being sued for allegedly funding deforestation in the Amazon.

APR
4
2011

An overhaul to civil litigation is bad news for lawyers

Losing a law suit is painful. Being landed with an inflated bill for the other side´s costs makes it worse.

APR
4
2011

Germany urges EU export ban of US execution drug

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.

APR
1
2011

Life to get harder for expat lawyers

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.

APR
1
2011

Microsoft files European complaint about Google

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.

APR
1
2011

Staff ´sickies´ targeted by new law

Workers who routinely pull ´sickies´ may be dissuaded from doing so by employment law changes that come into effect tomorrow, an employment lawyer says.

APR
1
2011

India´s RTI activism threats

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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