Walt Disney shareholders have appealed a ruling by a Delaware court that the company's directors were not liable for approving a $130 million severance package for former President Michael Ovitz . The appeal sought...

Lawyers could be suspended for a year for repeatedly filing frivolous lawsuits under a bill introduced in the US House of Representatives as part of a Republican effort to limit such lawsuits. Supporters of the legislation say...

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti has subpoenaed 73 employees of Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, as part of its ongoing investigation into deaths alleged at hospitals and nursing homes in the wake...

More than 2,000 companies around the world paid $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in abusing the now defunct UN oil-for-food program , according to parts of a UN investigation...

General Motors on Wednesday said that records relating to its pension program had been subpoenaed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an investigation into its accounting practices. GM said the subpoena...

Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , along with two others, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges if a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" that included bribery for official...

The US House Committee on Resources on Wednesday approved a budget package that includes provisions to relax a ban on oil and gas drilling along the nation's coast and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...

A six-person jury on Wednesday found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic radicals that killed six and injured 1,000. According...

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike must be notified by the Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, US District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled...

US v. Ahmend Omar Abu Ali, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, October 24, 2005 [ruling that US federal prosecutors can use a confession allegedly made under torture in Saudi Arabia by...