Germany´s Constitutional Court gave a green light on Wednesday for the country to ratify the euro zone´s new bailout fund and budget pact, but insisted the German parliament have veto powers over any future increases in the size of the fund.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit doesn´t get to hear many patent cases. But on Tuesday, it got a doozy.
Digital Domain Media Group Inc, which won Academy Awards for visual effects in films including "Titanic," filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and said its production business would be sold, raising questions about millions of dollars in Florida subsidies for a new studio.
A lawsuit claiming U.S. securities regulators were negligent in failing to respond earlier to Allen Stanford´s $7 billion Ponzi scheme can go forward for now, a federal judge ruled in Florida on Friday.
A former UBS AG banker who helped the U.S. government unleash an international crackdown on tax evasion was awarded $104 million in what is believed to be the largest-ever whistleblower payout to an individual.
AEG dropped its claim Monday for a $17.5 million insurance policy for Michael Jackson, just days after e-mails revealed the concert promoter had doubts about Jackson´s health at the time they were applying for the insurance.
When you think of a certain classic rock album released in 1967 with a bright yellow illustration of a banana on the cover, what name comes to mind: Andy Warhol or the Velvet Underground?
Avon Products Inc said on Monday it has appointed a former in-house lawyer at Novartis Corp with experience in government investigations to be its new general counsel.
Transocean Ltd is in discussions with the U.S. Justice Department to pay $1.5 billion to resolve civil and criminal claims from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Swiss-based company said on Monday.
A Moroccan man who admitted plotting to blow up the U.S. Capitol in a suicide attack was offered "martyrdom payments" for his parents by his undercover FBI handlers, according to the man´s lawyers.
A jury awarded the higher-than-expected figure in the slander case, which centered on Francis´ claim Wynn threatened to hit him "over the head with a shovel" and "bury (him) in the desert."
Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be deported from Cambodia to Sweden, but when this will happen remains unclear, the Swedish National Police said on Monday.
London-based energy giant BP has agreed to sell some of its deepwater oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production in a nearly $5.6 billion deal, landing lead roles for Latham & Watkins and Gardere Wynne Sewell.
The asylum seekers Australia sends to Nauru for processing will have access to training courses and pastoral care provided by the Salvation Army, and any children will be sent to school.
The wife of former German President Christian Wulff is fighting rumors about her past. The hub of these rumors is Google, where searches with her name have been combined with unsavory terms.
The November presidential election, widely expected to rest on a final blitz of advertising and furious campaigning, may also hinge nearly as much on last-minute legal battles over when and how ballots should be cast and counted, particularly if the race remains tight in battleground states.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. may be sanctioned in a lawsuit brought by the fired chief executive of its China casinos for not disclosing that evidence it said couldn´t be taken out of Macau was already in the U.S.
In a tax decision that could have wide business implications, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that employment taxes should not have been imposed on severance pay in an involuntary layoff.
Arizona´s Supreme Court, stepping into a zoning dispute over a tattoo parlor, ruled on Friday that tattooing was a constitutionally protected form of free speech, the first such decision by any state high court in the country, lawyers said.
Iraq´s fugitive Sunni vice president has been sentenced to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country.
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