A price-fixing lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in San Francisco contends that a so-called dairy cow retirement program in California was actually intended to drive up the price of…
In addition to telephone voice mail hacking and possible police payoffs, another area of concern is reportedly being investigated in a probe of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.: Whether a global…
The owner of the rights to the infamous Foamation triangular cheesehead worn by fans of the Green Bay Packers is demanding that a group of physicians rethink a planned billboard…
Saying that an “enormous conflict” inherent in a law firm’s agreement with an opposing party couldn’t be waived by a law firm’s clients, a federal appeals court has reinstated a…
Unions initially criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that corporations have a First Amendment right to expressly support political candidates for Congress and the White House.
Ten leading law firms in Russia have banded together to lobby for legal reform that they and others hope will help the country become a financial center by modernizing its…
Some 17 tons of silver coins from the 1804 wartime shipwreck of a Spanish galleon must be returned to the government of Spain, which owns the Nuestra Senora de las…
In a stunning follow-up to an earlier civil forfeiture and money-laundering complaint unsealed in April, federal prosecutors today accused owners and operators of the Full Tilt Poker website of running…
After losing an environmental case in Ecuador in which $18 billion was awarded to the plaintiffs, Chevron Corp. filed a civil racketeering lawsuit in federal court in the United States.…
Paul Sweeney didn’t intend to make any money off a $250 startup incorporation package that Foley Hoag offered on the deal site LevelUp. But the marketing aspect of the email,…
It appears that the plaintiffs may be on the path to victory in a hard-fought international legal battle with Chevron Inc. over environmental damage done to the Ecuador rainforest by…
Citing “a critical need for deterrence against health care fraud,” a federal judge in South Florida today sentenced the convicted mastermind of a $205 million health care racket to a…
Ordered by the Department of Labor to rehire and pay $930,000 to a fired whistle-blower it inherited along with a lot of troubled Countrywide Financial mortgages in 2008, the Bank…
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