DEC
27
2011

Swedish journalists receive 11 years in jail

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.

DEC
27
2011

ITC favors Microsoft in Motorola tiff

An ITC administrative law judge found that Motorola Android products infringe a Microsoft patent.

DEC
22
2011

BofA´s Countrywide to pay $335m over bias case

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.

DEC
22
2011

BT sues Google in U.S. over patent infringement

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.

DEC
21
2011

Top EU court to decide airline carbon case, could anger U.S.

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.

DEC
21
2011

Philip Morris to fight Australia plain packaging laws

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.

DEC
21
2011

Five families awarded $1.5m in OSHA violation case

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.

DEC
20
2011

Brazil lawsuit against Chevron may scare investors

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.

DEC
20
2011

Obama signs short-term spending bill into law

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.

DEC
20
2011

Swatch can cut watch part deliveries-Swiss court

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.

DEC
20
2011

Evidence shows Bradley Manning links to Wikileaks

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.

DEC
19
2011

Federal judge dismisses $1bn suit against Microsoft

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.

DEC
19
2011

Judge rules ´uncomfortable´ Tweets and blog posts are protected speech

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.

DEC
19
2011

New euro zone fiscal treaty will be enforceable

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.

DEC
19
2011

Facebook lawsuit against ads ´liked´ by friends can proceed, judge rules

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.

DEC
19
2011

French airport security staff continue strike

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.

DEC
15
2011

White House cuts production of dollar coins, saving $50 million a year

The presidential dollar coin has fallen victim to Washington´s cost cutting efforts.

DEC
15
2011

Saddam´s stolen plates returned to Iraq

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.

DEC
15
2011

French ex-President Jacques Chirac guilty of corruption

A French court has given former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust.

DEC
14
2011

Wells Fargo to pay "defamed" broker $500,000

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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