Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were sentenced to 11 years in jail Tuesday, the Swedish foreign ministry said.
An ITC administrative law judge found that Motorola Android products infringe a Microsoft patent.
Bank of America Corp´s Countrywide Financial unit agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $335m to settle civil charges that it discriminated against minority homebuyers, an historic settlement for the Obama administration in the wake of the subprime mortgage morass.
British telecoms firm BT has launched legal action against Google in the United States over patent infringement in a number of key areas for the technology group such as mobile map services.
Europe´s highest court will on Wednesday deliver a final ruling in a case over airline emissions that has triggered tit-for-tat legislation in the U.S. Congress and drawn a threat from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Philip Morris on Tuesday became the third tobacco giant to file a legal challenge against new Australian laws that will force tobacco products to be sold in dull, plain packaging from late next year.
The company that employed five workers killed in a 2007 fire at a Colorado hydroelectric plant was ordered on Monday by a federal judge to pay more than $1.5m to the victims´ surviving family members.
The nearly $11bn lawsuit Brazilian prosecutors filed this week against Chevron Corp. over an offshore oil leak could scare away foreign capital needed to develop Brazil´s huge offshore oil deposits, an analyst said Friday.
President Barack Obama has signed into law a short-term spending bill that Congress approved to keep the government running until a full agreement is finalized, the White House said on Saturday.
A Swiss court ruled that Swatch Group can reduce deliveries of watch components from next year, rejecting a legal complaint from rivals who said such a step would harm their growth prospects.
Prosecutors in Bradley Manning´s pre-trial hearing today provided the first evidence linking the Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents with Wikileaks and the site´s founder, Julian Assange.
Novell sued in 2004, claiming Microsoft duped it into developing the once-popular WordPerfect program for Windows 95, only to pull the plug so Microsoft could gain market share with its own product.
If 18th-century colonists were alive today, U.S. District judge Roger Titus imagines that they would draw a parallel between public bulletin boards and Twitter and blogs.
European finance ministers will pursue plans on Monday to enhance the IMF´s arsenal and press on with a drive for tighter fiscal rules in an attempt to assuage doubts they can overcome their sovereign debt crisis.
Facebook Inc., the world´s most used social-networking service, can be sued by people who claim showing advertisements that their friends apparently like violates a California law regarding commercial endorsements.
A strike by security staff slowed outgoing traffic at the main airports in the French cities of Paris and Lyon as the walkout over pay and conditions entered its third day on Sunday.
The presidential dollar coin has fallen victim to Washington´s cost cutting efforts.
The U.S. said it returned to the Iraqis china once belonging to the family of King Faisal II and dinner and salad plates belonging to Saddam Hussein that had been stolen and sold on eBay Inc.´s auction website.
A French court has given former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust.
A unit of Wells Fargo & Co must pay $500,000 to a broker who alleged the firm made defamatory statements about him in a regulatory filing, according to a ruling by a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel.
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