JUL
30
2012

US appeals court upholds Philip Morris sanctions

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling banning tobacco company Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc, from making false or deceptive statements about cigarettes.

JUL
30
2012

China appoints Gu Kailai defence lawyers

Disgraced politician Bo Xilai´s wife, who is accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood, has agreed to appointments.

JUL
30
2012

Apple, Samsung patent trial set to kick off in U.S., billions at stake

Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the United States in a high stakes patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the culmination of over a year of pretrial jousting with billions of dollars in the balance.

JUL
30
2012

´Toxic tush´ transgender nurse Oneal Ron Morris faces manslaughter charge after Shatarka Nuby dies from Fix-a-Flat injection

Nuby´s is the first reported fatality from Morris´ toxic butt injections of super glue, Fix-a-Flat and rubber cement that victims submitted to seeking more feminine curves.

JUL
30
2012

Twitter joke ruling hailed as victory for free speech

High court´s decision to overturn Paul Chambers´ conviction represents shift in legal system´s treatment of social media sites.

JUL
30
2012

Russia court orders BP to pay $3.1 billion in damages

Russia´s Federal Arbitration Court in Tyumen on Friday ordered BP - British Petroleum to pay 100 billion rubles (US$3.1 billion) in damages to TNK-BP, BP´s 50-50 joint venture with AAR - Alfa Access Renova, a consortium representing four Russian billionaire tycoons.

JUL
30
2012

Google urges dismissal of book scanning lawsuit

Google called Friday for the dismissal of a class action lawsuit accusing the company of infringing upon authors´ copyrighted works when it scanned books for its digital library.

JUL
27
2012

Apple, Samsung take smartphone war to first U.S. jury

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., having waged their patent battle on four continents, are now on a collision course in California with little prospect of a settlement before a jury trial set to begin next week.

JUL
27
2012

Court voids key parts of gas drilling law

Major provisions of Pennsylvania´s controversial law governing oil and natural-gas drilling were ruled unconstitutional Thursday, returning control to local officials.

JUL
27
2012

Colorado judge bars school from releasing James Holmes documents

The case of Colorado shooting spree suspect James E. Holmes has moved into legal terrain familiar in many celebrated criminal cases: that between the media´s right to know and the legal system´s desire to investigate a crime while protecting the rights of the defendant.

JUL
27
2012

No-fly list lawsuit should proceed in federal court in Portland, appeals panel rules

A federal appeals panel has unanimously ruled that a lawsuit challenging the FBI over the secretive no-fly list should be reinstated in federal district court in Portland.

JUL
27
2012

For big drug companies, a headache looms

It would seem a business executive´s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years.

JUL
27
2012

Wal-Mart sued by disabled over payment machine access

Wal-Mart Stores Inc has been sued by disability rights advocates who accused the world´s largest retailer of failing to make payment machines accessible to disabled customers who use wheelchairs and scooters.

JUL
27
2012

Madoff customers to be paid $1.5 to $2.4 bn

Customers of Bernard Madoff´s brokerage, who have received just $333 million from the liquidator of the con man´s estate, will get a second payment of $1.5 billion to $2.4 billion, an amount some investors found disappointing.

JUL
27
2012

JPMorgan agrees to settle ´check loan´ contract litigation

JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $100 million to settle credit-card holder claims that the bank increased their required minimum payments after promising a fixed interest rate.

JUL
27
2012

Ninth Circuit to rehear case concerning DNA collection law

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to rehear a case challenging a California law requiring police to conduct buccal mouth swabs to extract DNA samples from any adult arrested or charged with a felony in California.

JUL
26
2012

Buckyballs magnets targeted by federal suit, citing dangers for children

The Consumer Product Safety Commission filed suit Wednesday to stop the company that distributes the popular Buckyballs magnets from selling the product, a legal tactic that the agency has used only once before in the past decade.

JUL
26
2012

Accused Colorado killer no easy fit for mass murderer profile

Unless James Holmes chooses to say why he went on the lethal shooting spree he is accused of in a Colorado movie theater last Friday, the analyses offered by forensic psychiatrists, based on their study of other mass murders, may be as close as we get.

JUL
26
2012

Skype makes chats and user data more available to police

Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user information available to police, said industry and government officials familiar with the changes.

JUL
26
2012

Senate narrowly approves Democratic plan on Bush-era tax rates, compromise elusive

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve a Democratic proposal to partially extend the Bush-era tax rates -- while letting taxes rise for top earners -- in an election-year showdown that served more to put lawmakers on record over the tax rates than advance any particular plan.

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