The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider Chevron Corp.´s bid to block plaintiffs from trying to collect a $19 billion Ecuadorean environmental judgment against the company.
Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. reported a net loss of $143 million for the third quarter, partly reflecting the costs of settling a four-year legal battle over bribery allegations, but results were modestly better than Wall Street´s forecasts.
Megaupload Ltd. failed to win dismissal from a criminal case accusing the internet company and its founder, Kim Dotcom, of running a massive illegal file- sharing service.
The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump.
A Texas mother of five is expected to be sentenced Tuesday after admitting to gluing her 2-year-old daughter to a wall and beating her over potty training.
CareFusion Corp., a U.S. maker of medical technology that helps people breathe, agreed to buy closely held Brazilian respiratory device company Intermed Equipamento Medico Hospitalar Ltda.
Payments must be made within a month by nine friends and backers who originally promised to pay £140,000.
Gail Heriot and two other members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights would like the Supreme Court to know that new research indicates that race-preferential admissions to America´s top universities are hurting those they are supposed to help.
The Italian journalist behind the Vatileaks scandal has defended the actions of the Pope´s butler, saying he was trying to protect Benedict XVI from "wolves" circling around him in the Holy See.
A Brazil city council candidate has been arrested after she was caught allegedly handing out cocaine with her election leaflets, according to reports.
Mobile phone maker Motorola achieved a rare victory against software giant Microsoft in a patent case before a German court on Friday, the latest in a wave of patent lawsuits by technology firms fighting over market share.
Canada´s Supreme Court has said people with a low HIV viral load and who use condoms need not reveal their condition to a sexual partner.
Allegations of bribing overseas officials have already cost Avon Products Inc., Weatherford International Ltd. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. nearly half a billion dollars. And they haven´t been charged.
A federal appeals court judge on Friday appeared to extend a lifeline to personal-injury law firm Jacoby & Meyers to reinstate its case against an ethics rule barring non-lawyers from having ownership of law firms.
Oracle is nothing if not dogged. Earlier this year, a federal court rejected just about all of Oracle´s claims that Google ripped off its intellectual property in building the Android mobile operating system. But Oracle has now appealed the decision to a higher court.
Dozens of lawsuits against Facebook Inc, the NASDAQ exchange and various underwriters will be centralized before a federal judge in New York, who must sort through the legal aftermath of Facebook´s botched initial public offering.
The head of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Thursday that significant new cyber threats to U.S. financial networks appeared to be emerging from an "unusual" source.
A company that operates fan websites for Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez and other favorites of the under-13 crowd has agreed to pay $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Children´s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Two of Brazil´s top judges are split over the role played by a key adviser to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a major corruption scandal.
Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez told police she wasn´t aware of state laws regarding manatees. She turned herself in after the sheriff´s office released her photos.
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