Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people as part of Operation Global Con , the US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. Officials said the suspects received more than $1...
A Los Angeles lawyer on Tuesday became the third person to plead guilty in connection with alleged kickbacks at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman , the leading class action law firm that was...
German police may not trawl databases to identify possible terrorists without a specific threat to national security, human life or freedom, the German Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday. "A general threat situation, of the kind that has existed...
The US detention center in Guantanamo Bay is a legal black hole, an Australian High Court judge has said. Justice Michael Kirby made the statement Monday in a speech to the Sydney...
Ethiopia's Federal High Court has postponed a verdict in the genocide trial of former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam until next January. The announcement of the verdict had been scheduled for Tuesday. Even though the trial has lasted...
Author Studs Terkel and other Illinois residents are suing AT&T to bar the phone company from handing over customer records to the National Security Agency (NSA) without court oversight. The putative class action...
At least 127 democracy activists held by the military junta in Myanmar have died from "torture or ill-treatment," according to a report released Tuesday by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) . The report by...
The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs is reportedly preparing a document that recommends a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly inciting genocide with anti-Israel remarks . A group of Israeli...
The South Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) on Monday rejected an appeal of its antitrust decision against Microsoft . In December, the KFTC issued a preliminary ruling that...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC will wait for a Nigerian appeals court ruling rather than pay a $1.5 billion judgment to compensate ethnic communities in Nigeria for pollution from its operations. A company spokesman said paying...
