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.
Disgraced politician Bo Xilai´s wife, who is accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood, has agreed to appointments.
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.
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.
High court´s decision to overturn Paul Chambers´ conviction represents shift in legal system´s treatment of social media sites.
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.
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.
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.
Major provisions of Pennsylvania´s controversial law governing oil and natural-gas drilling were ruled unconstitutional Thursday, returning control to local officials.
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.
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.
It would seem a business executive´s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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