DEC
11
2015

Uber Ruling Adds More Drivers to Class-Action Suit

Arbitration pacts deemed unenforceable in suit that challenges drivers’ contractor status

DEC
10
2015

North Carolina law allowing officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages challenged

A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina law.

DEC
8
2015
DEC
8
2015

Google, Apple and Starbucks would face ´laughable´ fines for tax dodging under new rules

£300 penalties would be dwarfed by millions in potential profits for firms that take advantage of tax-avoidance schemes.

DEC
7
2015

Vatican appoints PricewaterhouseCoopers to audit accounts

Pope Francis has promised to make the Vatican´s finances more transparent after a series of scandals.

DEC
7
2015

Samsung Will Pay Apple for Damages - But Wants the Cash Back

Samsung has agreed to pay Apple $548 million over alleged patent violations.

DEC
4
2015

Google facing privacy violation complaint

The complaint outlines that the default "sync" setting of Chromebooks sold to schools allows Google to track and maintain the records of all student Internet activity conducted while using the product.

DEC
4
2015

Beer Drinkers Sue to Stop AB InBev´s $110 Billion SABMiller Deal

The acquisition by the world’s largest brewer of the second biggest would create a monopoly in the beer market in violation of U.S. antitrust law, the beer drinkers contend.

DEC
4
2015

McDonald´s faces European tax probe

The investigation will focus on McDonald´s tax deals with Luxembourg.

DEC
3
2015

US House blocks carbon emission rules, Obama to veto

The two measures, rolling back the Environmental Protection Agency´s new emission rules for power plants, passed the chamber largely along party lines.

DEC
3
2015

Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff

The removal proceedings were pushed forward by her political nemesis – the lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha – as Brazil slipped deeper into a crisis that has hamstrung decision-making even while the economy suffers its worst downturn since the Great Depression.

DEC
3
2015

FIFA Corruption Case Brings More Arrests in Zurich

Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Ángel Napout of Paraguay were among those charged, multiple people familiar with the investigation said.

DEC
2
2015

House weighs privacy law reform, but may abandon one loophole for another

The bill, if approved, would roll back aspects of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA, which for nearly three decades has allowed investigators to compel Internet companies for certain customer data sans search warrant.

DEC
2
2015

Europe rights court: Turkish YouTube ban violated freedom of expression

The Ankara Criminal Court of First Instance imposed the order primarily on the ground that YouTube contained approximately 10 videos that were considered insulting to the memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk known as the "Father of the Turks."

DEC
1
2015

U.S. probe finds possible misconduct by Walmart in Brazil

Federal authorities are investigating $500,000 in payments they believe ultimately went to an individual hired to obtain government permits for building two stores in Brasília, Brazil´s capital, between 2009 and 2012.

DEC
1
2015

Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Is Found Guilty on All Counts

Mr. Silver, 71, a Manhattan Democrat, was convicted on all seven counts against him.

NOV
30
2015

Dutch government to appeal EU ruling on Starbucks tax deal

Antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager ordered the Netherlands in October to recover 20 million to 30 million euros ($23 million to $34 million) in back taxes from Starbucks, accusing the U.S. coffee shop chain of benefiting from an illegal tax deal.

NOV
24
2015

Most senior judges and top QCs still privately educated, figures show

Proportion of senior judges who went to fee-paying schools has barely fallen since 1989, analysis by the Sutton Trust finds

NOV
23
2015

Pfizer and Allergan to Merge in $160 Billion Deal

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said on Monday that it had struck a $160 billion deal, including debt, to merge with Allergan, the maker of Botox, in one of the biggest takeovers in the health care industry.

NOV
23
2015

Omnicom to buy Brazil advertising group ABC, source says

Nov 20 Omnicom Group Inc, the world´s second largest advertising company, has agreed to pay 1 billion reais ($270 million) for Brazil´s Grupo ABC, growing Omnicom´s publicity, branding services and content in Latin America´s largest economy, a source with direct knowledge of the transaction said on Friday.

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