Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. on Monday settled an antitrust suit with Discover Financial Services for $2.75 billion. Under the settlement, $1.8875 billion was apportioned to Visa and $862.5 million to Mastercard [press...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Laos to release leaders of the ethnic minority Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand and imprisoned in Laos for their roles in...

A judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California Monday sentenced Steven Schulman and David Bershad, two former partners of the law firm now known as Milberg LLP , to six months...

Lakhdar Boumediene, et al. v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 27, 2008 [ruling that in order to be held as "enemy combatants," detainees must have directly supported hostilities against the United...

The US presidential campaigns of both Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain are recruiting large numbers of lawyers to monitor and protect voters' rights in the upcoming national election, according to a New York Times report...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Monday preliminarily enjoined parts of a new state law requiring registered sex offenders to avoid most Halloween...

A jury for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday convicted Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) on seven counts of making false statements relating to an alleged...

Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday ruled that in order to be validly held as an "enemy combatants," Guantanamo Bay detainees ...

Officials from Nigeria and from US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday that they hope to reach a settlement agreement by the end of next month over allegedly illegal clinical trials conducted in Nigeria by the drug company...

Mexican Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales Ibanez, head of Mexico's Assistant Prosecutors Office Specializing in Organized Crime (SIEDO) , said Monday a branch of a Mexican drug cartel had infiltrated her office. Following SIEDO's 'Operation Cleaning,' Miguel Colorado...