JUL
12
2011

More litigants taking on Merck

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.

JUL
12
2011

Disabled traveller David Joya sues Aeromexico for allegedly breaking his leg

A disabled passenger has accused airline staff of breaking his leg while transporting him during a stopover.

JUL
12
2011

Bank declares living woman dead

A Florida woman is suing her bank for ruining her credit rating after it became convinced she was dead, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

JUL
12
2011

US jobs numbers suggest ´soft patch´ may get stickier

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.

JUL
12
2011

Brazil´s ´magnet boy´: latest in a series of attractive stories

It seems that 11-year-old Paulo David Amorim of Brazil may be unusually attractive.

JUL
12
2011

Michigan woman Cheryl Gray sues Wylie Iwan, claims he broke her heart during Facebook relationship

A woman in Michigan wants more than $8,000 from a man she blames for breaking her heart - over Facebook.

JUL
11
2011

Pfizer sues Apotex in U.S. over generic version of Lyrica nerve-pain drug

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.

JUL
11
2011

Assange to start extradition appeal

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.

JUL
11
2011

Secret agents raid Apple store webcam ´artist´

The US Secret Service has raided the home of an artist who collected images from webcams in a New York Apple store.

JUL
11
2011

Berlusconi´s Fininvest ordered to pay 560m euro damages

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.

JUL
11
2011

Law job stagnation may have started before the recession—and it may be a sign of lasting change

The legal profession is undergoing a massive structural shift—one that will leave it dramatically transformed in the coming years.

JUL
8
2011

Judge rejects Apple bid for injunction against Amazon

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.

JUL
8
2011

Women still facing global discrimination: UN

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.

JUL
8
2011

JPMorgan wins dismissal of Madoff conspiracy suit

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.

JUL
8
2011

News of the World to close amid hacking scandal

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.

JUL
7
2011

More bad news for law grads: They´re earning less

The employment news just keeps getting worse for freshly minted lawyers.

JUL
7
2011

Government to review Nortel patent auction

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.

JUL
7
2011

Murdoch facing Parliament´s ire in hacking case

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.

JUL
7
2011

Family ordered to pay $750,000 for wildfire that burned Albert Einstein papers

A California family must pay $750,000 (£469,000) for a massive 2007 wildfire that destroyed papers written by Albert Einstein, a jury decided.

JUL
7
2011

Appeals court suspends enforcement of ´don´t ask, don´t tell´ policy

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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