JUL
13
2012

WikiLeaks wins Icelandic court battle against Visa for blocking donations

The Icelandic partner of Visa and MasterCard violated contract laws when it imposed a block against credit card donations to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, a district court there has ruled.

JUL
13
2012

Fines Delta almost $1m for flying two planes without making necessary repairs

FAA is cracking down on Delta Air Lines, after the agency claimed the carrier failed to make or took its time making necessary repairs to two planes after inspections found damages on the aircrafts.

JUL
13
2012

Russian oil drilling off Cuba is delayed by old embargo

A Russian oil company will delay drilling its first exploratory well off the northern coast of Cuba, about 180 miles from Florida, after apparently struggling to find a drilling rig that would not violate a United States embargo.

JUL
13
2012

Swiss court: Former FIFA president Havelange took $1.5m in bribes

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange and fellow Brazilian sports chief Ricardo Teixeira pocketed millions of dollars in bribes from a collapsed marketing company, documents released by a Swiss court Wednesday revealed.

JUL
12
2012

RBS asks court to block $1m bonus to ex-risk chief

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc asked a London court to approve a decision to block a 700,000- pound ($1m) bonus awarded to its former head of corporate risk solutions before his dismissal.

JUL
12
2012

Texas judge rules atmosphere, air is public trust

A Texas judge has ruled that the atmosphere and air must be protected for public use, just like water, which could help attorneys tasked with arguing climate change lawsuits designed to force states to cut emissions.

JUL
12
2012

Yale launches Ph.D. in Law to train aspiring professors

The school plans what administrators said will be the first Ph.D. in Law. The program is designed for students holding a J.D. from a U.S. law school who want to teach law. Students will spend three years learning how to produce scholarly research and writing; will take teaching classes; and will teach courses themselves.

JUL
12
2012

U.S. to announce settlement with BP over Texas City refinery

U.S. workplace safety regulators plan to announce a settlement on Thursday with BP Plc´s U.S. refining subsidiary over safety violations found at the company´s Texas City, Texas, refinery in 2009, according to a statement issued Wednesday.

JUL
12
2012

Tom Cruise attorney threatens National Enquirer with lawsuit

Tom Cruise´s attorney has threatened the parent company of the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor´s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

JUL
12
2012

HSBC to apologize at Senate money laundering hearing

HSBC Holdings PLC will apologize at a U.S. Senate hearing for its lax efforts to prevent money laundering, the London-based lender´s chief executive said in an internal memo, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

JUL
12
2012

Judge lets Mississippi´s only abortion clinic stay open

Lawyers debated before a federal judge on Wednesday whether a new law governing abortion clinics in Mississippi should remain blocked or go into effect and thus set in motion a process that could lead to the closing of the state´s lone abortion clinic.

JUL
12
2012

China to pay family in a case of forced abortion

The woman forced to undergo a grisly late-term abortion in northwest China will receive a cash settlement from the local government.

JUL
12
2012

Government $1bn deal to controversial Petrobras deep-sea oil drilling

The government has committed $1bn of taxpayer´s funds to support deep-sea drilling in the south Atlantic, despite acknowledging that the controversial project has "significant potential" to damage the environment.

JUL
11
2012

Peregrine files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

Peregrine Financial Group Inc, the regulated unit of the brokerage PFGBest, has filed to liquidate under Chapter 7 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, a court filing shows.

JUL
11
2012

Former CEO who embezzled $1.7m for lavish gifts for wife, mistress gets nearly 6 years in prison

Before he was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison Tuesday for embezzling $1.7 million from his employer to pay for the luxury lifestyle he lived with his wife and an overseas mistress, Kevin Coleman addressed his victims in court.

JUL
11
2012

Akron man wins new trial in 1993 murder case

A Summit County judge Monday granted Dewey Amos Jones III a new trial in the 1993 slaying of a Goodyear retiree, saying new test results of DNA evidence showed neither Jones nor another suspect were at the crime scene.

JUL
11
2012

Justice Dept., FBI to review use of forensic evidence in thousands of cases

The Justice Department and the FBI have launched a review of thousands of criminal cases to determine whether any defendants were wrongly convicted or deserve a new trial because of flawed forensic evidence, officials said Tuesday.

JUL
11
2012

Woman sues FDA for right to use donor´s free sperm

She is dating a woman. She is trying to conceive a child. She wants to use free sperm from a man she trusts.

JUL
11
2012

Court rules circus can sue animal rights groups for racketeering

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan today ruled that Feld Entertainment Inc., the parent company of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, can move ahead with its federal racketeering case against a coalition of animal rights groups.

JUL
11
2012

McDonald’s Olympics sponsorship queried

Top Olympics officials questioned whether it was appropriate to allow fast-food chain McDonald´s to continue sponsoring the games amid mounting concern about the global obesity crisis, the International Olympic Committee president has admitted.

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