The US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted JPMorgan Chase permission on Monday to pay $44.6 million in order to resolve allegations of fraudulent bidding practices for state and local government investment securities at taxpayers´ expense.
Google has introduced an alert system that warns users it believes may be the subject of state-sponsored attacks.
An Oregon woman has won a $900,000 jury verdict against a retired dentist who gave her a surprise case of herpes on their fourth date—the latest of a few large damage awards for an affliction so common it has become a ubiquitous feature of dating life.
A rising football star in southern California whose career was brought to a sudden halt by a kidnap-rape conviction that landed him in prison was exonerated today after his accuser contacted him on Facebook recanted her story.
BP said it is pursuing the potential sale of its stake in a lucrative but conflict-plagued Russian joint venture after receiving what people familiar with the matter said are expressions of interest from two parties: BP´s existing partners and a state-owned energy company in Russia.
A bankruptcy trustee blamed former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Jon S. Corzine for events leading to the financial firm´s collapse, saying he may pursue legal claims against the former financier for ramping up risks and failing to safeguard money belonging to customers.
One of the five judges in the case of Anders Behring Breivik, the mass killer on trial in Norway, has been caught on camera playing solitaire in court.
Six weeks after being released from jail on bond, George Zimmerman, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, is back behind bars.
Lawyers for Hewlett-Packard Co and Oracle Corp will face off in court on Monday for opening statements in a bitter lawsuit over Oracle´s decision to end support for HP´s Itanium-based servers.
Former Australian cult leader Rocco Leo has been ordered to return A$420,000 to a severely disabled woman who handed over the money believing she would be healed.
A drunken grandmother caused a New Zealand-bound flight to turn back to Melbourne after verbally abusing passengers and punching a man in the face.
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the same-sex partner of a parent who has adopted a child has a right to seek custody of that child after the partnership has dissolved.
A US appeals court has ruled key parts of a federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional.
The U.S. government told a federal appeals court Thursday that it still has the right to place Global Positioning System tracking devices on cars without obtaining a search warrant—despite a January Supreme Court ruling that the warrantless installation of such a device violated the Constitution.
A $162 million settlement between the owners of the New York Mets baseball team and the liquidator of Bernard Madoff´s firm won court approval.
A federal judge in Manhattan granted class-action status on Thursday to authors suing Google over the company´s ambitious book-scanning project, allowing the long-stalled case to move forward.
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
Ecuadorean plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Canada as a first move outside their country to try and enforce an $18 billion court judgment against oil company Chevron for polluting the Amazon, their lawyers said on Wednesday.
Less than a month after President Obama endorsed gay marriage, two dozen same-sex couples filed two separate lawsuits in the president´s home state on Wednesday, arguing that it is unconstitutional for Illinois to deny them the right to wed.
Lawyers for popular file-sharing company Megaupload, accused of copyright theft and internet piracy, have moved to have the case thrown out in the United States and tens of millions of dollars of assets unfrozen, a U.S. counsel said on Thursday.
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