Google Inc. is weighing whether to settle a potential claim by U.S. authorities that it violated antitrust law in the way it handles mobile-device patents, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The union-affiliated healthcare trust that is the minority owner of Chrysler Group LLC will have until Nov. 5 to respond to a suit filed by majority owner Fiat SpA, according to a court filing in Delaware on Wednesday.
The Broadway producers of "Rebecca: The Musical" have sued a Long Island, New York, man charged with concocting fictional investors and offering the prospect of $4.5 million in financing in order to collect undeserved commissions.
Well Advantage Limited, a Hong Kong- based firm controlled by billionaire Zhang Zhi Rong, agreed to pay $14 million to resolve U.S. regulatory claims that it profited from illegal trades before Cnooc Ltd.´s announcement that it would buy Nexen Inc.
Hate those robotic marketing calls? Have a good idea for how to stop them? If so, the Federal Trade Commission wants to hear from you.
Brazil´s president Dilma Rousseff postpones endorsing mayoral candidate knowing new middle class will tune in for finale.
A US law defining marriage as being only between one man and one woman has been struck down by a second appeal court, this time in New York.
The UN Working Group on discrimination against women on Thursday urged governments around the world to repeal laws that criminalize adultery and give rise to severe penalties which include flogging, death by stoning and hanging.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man with conspiring to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, saying he tried to remotely detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb in a van he parked outside the building in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday.
Monsanto Co., the world´s biggest seed company, has suspended collection of royalties for its Roundup Ready soybeans in Brazil while it appeals a state court ruling on intellectual property rights.
Ecuadorean plaintiffs on Tuesday said an order issued by a court in the Andean country lets them seize some $200 million worth of assets belonging to Chevron in a new legal blow to the No. 2 U.S. oil company.
Apple Inc. lost a U.K. court appeal ruling over whether Samsung Electronics Co.´s Galaxy tablet infringed the design of the iPad as a judge criticized divergent rulings in the global intellectual property fight between the two companies.
A hospital has agreed to fund lifetime care expected to cost around £10m for a man who was brain damaged after being treated for croup as a baby.
A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by two black men who said they were rejected for the starring role of "The Bachelor" on the popular ABC reality television show because of their race.
A Florida judge set a tentative date of June 10 next year for the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch captain who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated subdivision near Orlando.
The hefty tomes aren´t as welcome on doorsteps as they were in the pre-Internet age, but a U.S. appeals court panel rules they have the same free speech protection as newspapers.
The abrupt resignation of Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit on Tuesday ended a turbulent five-year tenure in which one of the nation´s biggest banks avoided collapse with the help of a $45 billion rescue package provided by regulators, taxpayers and Congress.
City of San Rafael is looking to start a national trend by making it illegal to light up in dwellings with as few as two units.
A US court has quashed the conviction of Osama Bin Laden´s former driver, who had been jailed in Guantanamo Bay for giving material support to terrorism.
The first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison.
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