A federal jury sitting in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that Merck & Co. , makers of the painkiller Vioxx that was withdrawn from the market after it was found to expose users to...
Former Enron accounting chief Richard Causey received a 66-month prison sentence Wednesday for authorizing bookkeeping practices that allowed Enron to defraud investors of billions of dollars. Under the original slate of 35 charges against...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton denounced the disparity in federal sentencing requirements for possession of crack cocaine and cocaine powder in testimony Tuesday before the US Sentencing Commission . Citing the 100-1 differential...
The French parliament may soon consider a draft bill proposing the addition of class action lawsuits to France's legal system after French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry Thierry Breton introduced the...
Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said Tuesday that his office is once again pressing for the extradition of 26 Americans for their role in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric...
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for its alleged harassment of five US citizens of Mexican descent during...
In the first US case of its kind, a Georgia state court Wednesday found Ethiopian immigrant Khalid Adem guilty of sexually mutilating his then-two-year-old daughter and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Adem was...
Canada faces a lawsuit from conservationist group Friends of the Earth for failing to meet its emissions goals under the Kyoto Protocol , which government officials have deemed to be untenable. The group presented a...
The nephew of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison by a military tribunal Tuesday for his comments implicating the military in the assassination of his uncle over 25 years ago [BBC...
A federal judge in Indiana ruled Wednesday that Indiana correctly enforced its statute governing prerecorded messages when it chose to prohibit the Republican-backed Economic Freedom Fund (EFF) from conducting automated attack push polls [SourceWatch...
