JUL
9
2012

Facebook, Yahoo tie up, settle lawsuits

Facebook Inc and Yahoo Inc agreed to forge a broad Internet advertising and licensing partnership on Friday, laying to rest their dueling patent lawsuits.

JUL
9
2012

Obama signs bill capping student loan interest rates

US President Barack Obama signed legislation HR 4348 on Friday that prevents the interest rate on student loans from increasing and maintains jobs on infrastructure and transportation projects nationwide.

JUL
6
2012

Air France crash ´due to pilot and technical failings´

A combination of technical failure and human error led to the loss of an Air France flight over the Atlantic in June 2009 and 228 deaths, according to the final report into the crash.

JUL
6
2012

Court judgment strips Italian police of top men

Italy has lost some of its top police officers following a supreme court judgment that removed a group of senior investigators including those heading anti-Mafia operations, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said.

JUL
6
2012

BASF, Shell told to pay $525m by Brazil court

German chemicals maker BASF and oil major Shell have been told by a Brazilian court to pay 1.06 billion Brazilian real ($525.23 million) into a compensation fund for former employees at a pesticides plant who said their health suffered from working there.

JUL
6
2012

Rihanna sues former accountants

Pop star Rihanna is suing her former accountants, saying they spent years mismanaging her finances and cost her millions of dollars during a recent tour.

JUL
6
2012

New agency plans to make over mortgage market

Over the next six months, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a newly formed regulator vilified by the right, intends to overhaul the home mortgage market as a first step toward improving its fairness and clarity.

JUL
6
2012

Judge orders JPMorgan to explain withholding emails

A U.S. judge has ordered JPMorgan Chase & Co to explain why the court should not force the bank to turn over 25 internal emails demanded as part of an investigation into whether it manipulated electricity markets in California and the Midwest.

JUL
6
2012

Florida shooter Zimmerman´s bail set at $1m

A Florida judge on Thursday granted bond a second time to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, but set it at $1 million and expressed concern that Mr. Zimmerman was a flight risk.

JUL
6
2012

Judge orders DUI defendant to write report on book of job

A South Carolina judge has ordered a DUI defendant to read and write a summary of the Old Testament book of Job.

JUL
5
2012

Agents ´spied on Brazil´s president´

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla, was monitored by domestic intelligence officers after the end of the country´s military dictatorship, said a media report.

JUL
5
2012

Failure to report accidents costs company thousands

Failing to report a series of workplace accidents involving a crushed foot and a fractured rib has cost an Auckland based company more than $60,000.

JUL
5
2012

Family ´disgusted´ at saving of dog which bit girl´s face

The uncle of a girl who was bitten by a dog in Jersey said his family were "disgusted" by the Royal Court´s decision to let the animal live.

JUL
5
2012

When can a corporation´s lawyer blow the whistle?

Attorneys—in-house and outside counsel alike—often stand at the crossroads of corporate misconduct. At one time, attorneys´ duty to maintain corporate clients´ confidences was thought to be virtually absolute.

JUL
5
2012

Mergers down in second quarter, but still up overall compared to last year

While legal consultancies Altman Weil and the Hildebrandt Institute report that mergers involving U.S. law firms were down in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period last year, statistics show that the industry saw more tie-ups in the first half of this year than it did during the first six months of 2011.

JUL
5
2012

Chinese fishermen sue ConocoPhilips over spill

A group of Chinese fishermen filed suit against ConocoPhillips Inc. in the U.S. over an oil spill in China last year, potentially reviving legal challenges months after the company signaled they were largely settled.

JUL
5
2012

Spain´s national court probes Bankia IPO, names Rato suspect

Spain´s national court Wednesday opened a criminal investigation into last year´s stock market listing of Bankia SA, naming as suspects former chairman Rodrigo Rato and 32 other individuals who were board members running up to the bank´s recent nationalization.

JUL
5
2012

Acta down, but not out, as Europe votes against controversial treaty

Anti-piracy agreement rejected by European Parliament, but Acta could be revived by European Commission.

JUL
4
2012

Megaupload founder goes from arrest to cult hero

Last month, a New Zealand software developer, Ben Gracewood, replied to a Twitter post from the Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom, founder of the Megaupload file-sharing site that had been shut down by the F.B.I.

JUL
4
2012

JetBlue pilot who disrupted flight declared insane, not guilty

A Texas judge on Tuesday found a JetBlue pilot insane and not guilty of interfering with a flight after his bizarre behavior forced an emergency landing in March.

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