AUG
9
2016

Italy highest court gives go ahead to political reform referendum

The Court of Cassation ruled positively on the validity of the more than 500,000 signatures needed by law for a referendum to be held

AUG
8
2016

Vermont Supreme Court tosses suit against jailhouse lawyer

The Court dismissed a lawsuit that accused an inmate acting as a jailhouse lawyer of practicing law without a licens

AUG
8
2016

Walmart to buy Jet.com for $3bn

Retailer plans push to challenge Amazon’s online dominance

AUG
8
2016

Facebook denies reluctance to give data to German investigators

Facebook said many of the requests it received for user data were incorrectly formulated

AUG
8
2016

Keeping the ‘Darlings’ Out of the Courtroom

The American Bar Association will vote on whether to prohibit harassment and discrimination by lawyers in the course of practicing law

AUG
8
2016

Turkish court issues arrest warrant for US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen

President Erdogan blames the Pennsylvania-based cleric for last month’s coup plot

AUG
5
2016

AC Milan sold to Chinese investors for $820 million

Italian businessmen and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to sell storied soccer club AC Milan to a Chinese consortium for 740 million euros

AUG
5
2016

German high court rejects ´intersex´ as third gender category

The high court rejected the creation of a third gender category of "inter" to describe people born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical definitions of female or male

AUG
5
2016

Sports Direct AGM to vote on review of firm´s treatment of workers

Unite union calls on board to commission independent inquiry after MPs find firm has been run like a Victorian workhouse

AUG
5
2016

´Burkini-only day´ at French waterpark criticised

Women who attend "must be covered from the chest to the knees", organisers say

AUG
5
2016

Big Win for Tax Whistleblowers as Pair Gets $17.8 Million

Ruling marks first time a portion of criminal fine and civil forfeiture are included in award

AUG
4
2016

Goldman Sachs is ordered to pay $36.3M for alleged use of confidential information

The Federal Reserve Board alleges that a former Goldman Sachs executive, Joseph Jiampietro, pressured an employee who formerly worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

AUG
4
2016

Delaware top court strikes down death penalty law as unconstitutional

Citing a January US Supreme Court decision that found that Florida´s death penalty scheme violated the Sixth Amendment, the Delaware court found that the law gives judges too great a role in imposing the death penalty

AUG
4
2016

Canada Supreme Court Candidates Now Must Apply for the Job

Prime Minister Trudeau announces overhaul of judicial appointment process

AUG
4
2016

Chinese lawyer who exposed baby milk scandal jailed for subversion

Zhou Shifeng, director of Beijing’s Fengrui law firm, jailed for more than seven years in latest crackdown on activists

AUG
4
2016

Italy tackles food waste with law encouraging firms to donate food

Restaurant customers will be encouraged to use doggy bags as part of move to save 1m tonnes of food a year

AUG
3
2016

China releases human rights lawyer

Last month China was set to prosecute a prominent human rights lawyer on charges of subverting state power

AUG
3
2016

Comcast sued for $100 million in Washington state lawsuit over deceptive practices

Washington state’s attorney general is suing Comcast over allegations that the cable giant deceived customers to pad its bottom line

AUG
3
2016

Judge voids VirnetX´s $625.6 million Apple verdict; VirnetX plunges

VirnetX shares were down $1.93, or 44.6 percent, at $2.40 in Monday morning trading, after earlier falling to $2.14

AUG
3
2016

Not in My Backyard: New Jersey Attorney Sues Over Pokémon ‘Invasion’

The intruders that allegedly trespassed into the backyard of 61-year-old Jeffrey Marder were at first were digital: colorful icons featured in the hit smartphone game “Pokémon Go.”

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