Arbitration pacts deemed unenforceable in suit that challenges drivers’ contractor status
A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina law.
The UK had tried to block the ´disproportionate´ four year plan.
£300 penalties would be dwarfed by millions in potential profits for firms that take advantage of tax-avoidance schemes.
Pope Francis has promised to make the Vatican´s finances more transparent after a series of scandals.
Samsung has agreed to pay Apple $548 million over alleged patent violations.
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.
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.
The investigation will focus on McDonald´s tax deals with Luxembourg.
The two measures, rolling back the Environmental Protection Agency´s new emission rules for power plants, passed the chamber largely along party lines.
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.
Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Ángel Napout of Paraguay were among those charged, multiple people familiar with the investigation said.
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.
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."
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.
Mr. Silver, 71, a Manhattan Democrat, was convicted on all seven counts against him.
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.
Proportion of senior judges who went to fee-paying schools has barely fallen since 1989, analysis by the Sutton Trust finds
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 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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