The general counsel of Pfizer Inc. will no longer oversee the drug manufacter’s compliance program under the terms of a record-breaking $2.3 billion criminal and civil settlement by the company…
When a criminal defendant dies while his conviction is being appealed, the federal courts dismiss the charges, as happened in the case of Enron executive Kenneth Lay.
In a speech yesterday on health care reform to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama offered few details of possible changes to medical malpractice laws that could accompany…
A pizza shop must pay for a worker’s weight-loss surgery, an Indiana appeals court has ruled in a case that is making headlines, because an on-the-job back injury contributed to…
A federal judge has sided with Pfizer in an unusual trademark dispute over its erectile disfunction drug Viagra, granting a permanent injunction banning a New York man from towing a…
A 1999 accident at Texas A&M University that killed 11 students and one graduate and injured dozens of others ended a 100-year-old campus football tradition known as Bonfire.
At the same time that the United States was prosecuting five Cuban intelligence agents in Miami nearly a decade ago, the government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting was also paying local…
Bar authorities in North Dakota have extended for another year the suspension from law practice of a former federal prosecutor who admittedly shoplifted two knives in separate incidents last year.
Fairfield Greenwich Group has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Secretary of State over serving as a feeder fund to Bernard Madoff’s massive…
Angry about a Texas judge’s ruling in a custody matter involving his granddaughter, Don Bandelman followed the jurist into a public restroom at the Caldwell County courthouse.
An individual allegedly unconstitutionally detained as a material witness under a post-Sept. 11, 2001 anti-terrorism policy implemented by ex-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft can sue the nation’s former top law…
A federal appeals court has granted Microsoft’s emergency appeal of a Texas federal judge’s order that would have banned the computer Goliath from continuing to sell some Word software products…
Just when it might have seemed reasonable to expect a lull in ongoing coverage of the high-profile music file-sharing case of graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, a new issue has surfaced.
In an unexpected move that may enhance the chance of bringing to justice those responsible for the high-profile slaying of a Russian journalist in 2006, the country’s top court has…
Five whistle-blowers will share $102 million as part of a record-breaking $2.3 billion settlement by Pfizer Inc. of a federal criminal probe and civil qui tam…
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