A retired Grand Forks couple who would not allow two gay men to stay in their bed and breakfast has to pay the men more than $4,500, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.
A Washington federal judge yesterday upheld a $2.3 million verdict for Charles Singletary, who spent 10 years in jail after his parole was wrongly revoked.
Portland is buffing its image as Naked City USA with the latest nudity case to grab national headlines.
A coalition of civil rights organizations has filed a motion in federal court seeking to block an Arizona law that requires officers to make immigration checks while enforcing other laws if "reasonable suspicion" of illegal immigration exists.
Peregrine Financial Group Chief Executive Russell Wasendorf Sr., who last week confessed to bilking futures customers of more than $100 million, owned a jet plane and an extensive wine collection but he did not, he said in his confession, live large.
A Santa Monica man was today sentenced to three years in county jail after admitting to stealing nearly $370,000 from 11 clients and one employee while he was working as an attorney, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.
Gov. Cuomo today signed legislation that lets non-profits post bail up to $2,000 for low-income defendants charged with misdemeanor crimes.
Arizona´s Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that volunteer investigators working for him have concluded that President Obama´s birth certificate is not legitimate.
The judge overseeing the Kim Dotcom extradition case has stepped down after making comments suggesting the United States was the "enemy".
Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step — it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI´s National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of the gag order that came with it.
Michael Garcia, a Kirkland & Ellis litigation and internal investigations partner and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has been named co-chairman of an ethics committee tasked with investigating allegations of corruption at soccer´s world governing body.
The chief US judge overseeing the Guantanamo Bay military commissions rejects arguments that his military status and contract terms make an impartial trial impossible.
Visa Europe Ltd. should match MasterCard Inc.´s lower fees for credit cards to settle a European Union antitrust investigation, the EU´s antitrust chief said.
News Corp.´s British unit failed for months to disclose in civil litigation a company executive´s e- mail related to hacking the phone of a "well-known person."
Officials of HSBC Holdings Plc pledged to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday that the bank is changing the way it polices illicit funds, but senators were skeptical the bank could deliver on promises it had broken before.
An Alameda County civil jury ordered convicted murderer Hans Reiser on Tuesday to pay $60 million to his young son and daughter for strangling their mother, rejecting his assertions in a wrongful-death case that he had rightfully killed her to protect the children.
A Duke Energy shareholder has filed a lawsuit in Delaware’s Court of Chancery accusing 11 Duke board members of breaching their fiduciary duty in abruptly firing ex-Progress CEO Bill Johnson.
Since the early-20th century, the government and civil society have been proactive in establishing health care as a common good, while sharing the burden of paying for these services through a myriad of taxes.
Bank of America Corp agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that its unit Countrywide Financial fraudulently misrepresented mortgage-backed securities insured by Syncora Guarantee, sources close to the settlement said.
Logging company Sierra Pacific Industries agreed to pay the United States $122.5 million in damages to settle a lawsuit over a 2007 wildfire that was among the most devastating in California history, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
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