A year after one man took on pharmaceutical giant Merck in the courts and won, a wave of people saying the company´s controversial arthritis drug Vioxx caused them to have heart attacks have begun their case for compensation.
A disabled passenger has accused airline staff of breaking his leg while transporting him during a stopover.
A Florida woman is suing her bank for ruining her credit rating after it became convinced she was dead, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Today´s job numbers from the US are a reminder that the space programme isn´t the only feature of postwar America that seems to have gone into reverse.
It seems that 11-year-old Paulo David Amorim of Brazil may be unusually attractive.
A woman in Michigan wants more than $8,000 from a man she blames for breaking her heart - over Facebook.
Pfizer Inc., the world´s largest drugmaker, accused Apotex Inc. in a lawsuit of infringing two U.S. patents for the nerve-pain drug Lyrica.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will tomorrow start his appeal against a British court ruling that he be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape.
The US Secret Service has raided the home of an artist who collected images from webcams in a New York Apple store.
An Italian court has ordered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi´s holding company Fininvest to pay 560m euros (£500m) in damages to a rival media group, CIR, over bribery allegations.
The legal profession is undergoing a massive structural shift—one that will leave it dramatically transformed in the coming years.
A U.S. judge denied Apple Inc´s attempt to quickly stop online retailer Amazon.com Inc from using the "App Store" name, according to a court document.
Women around the world are still facing discrimination, according to a report released Wednesday by UN Women detailing the legal and humanitarian struggles of women across the globe.
A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co of violating U.S. racketeering law by conspiring with Bernard Madoff to further his Ponzi scheme.
This Sunday´s edition of the News of the World will be its last, News International chairman James Murdoch has said, after days of increasingly damaging allegations against the paper.
The employment news just keeps getting worse for freshly minted lawyers.
After much national hand-wringing over the demise of Nortel Networks Corp., Industry Minister Christian Paradis is asking his department to review the recent sale of the fallen telecom giant´s intellectual property in a US$4.5bn auction.
Britain´s Parliament on Wednesday collectively turned on Rupert Murdoch, the head of the News Corporation, and the tabloid culture he represents, using a debate about a widening phone hacking scandal to denounce reporting tactics by newspapers once seen as too politically influential to challenge.
A California family must pay $750,000 (£469,000) for a massive 2007 wildfire that destroyed papers written by Albert Einstein, a jury decided.
A federal appeals court Wednesday issued an order blocking the U.S. military from enforcing its "don´t ask, don´t tell" policy on gays and lesbians serving in the military.
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