Recent Updates
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Brazil judge keeps Cisco suspects in custody
Legal World 10/29/2007A Brazilian judge has extended a term of temporary custody for six people connected with Cisco, the US technology giant accused of tax fraud, and imprisoned a further three people accused of involvement in the alleged scheme.Some 40 people were arres...
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Former Haitai Group CEO Found Guilty
Legal World 10/27/2007A former business leader was found guilty Monday of embezzling corporate funds. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Park Kun-bae, a former chief administrator of Haitai Group, to an eighteen month prison term.. Park was indicted last November ...
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Italian court drops murder case against US soldier
Legal World 10/25/2007Italian court has dropped a case against a U.S. soldier for killing an Italian intelligence agent at a check-point in Iraq on the grounds that it does not have jurisdiction, lawyers said on Thursday. U.S. soldier Mario Lozano was being tried in absen...
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Russia's 'Chessboard Killer' Found Guilty of 48 Murders
Legal World 10/24/2007Former supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin confessed to killing 63 people with the goal of marking each death on a chessboard, which has 64 squares.Prosecutors last month charged him with 49 murders committed between 2001 and 2006 in a park on th...
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NASA Sits on Air Safety Survey
Legal World 10/21/2007Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously rec...
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AT&T Sues Vonage Over Patents
Legal World 10/20/2007Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. suffered another blow, disclosing that a third major telecom company had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against it.AT&T Inc. filed suit Wednesday in federal court in Wisconsin claiming Vonage is v...
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Relief as EU leaders strike treaty deal
Legal World 10/19/2007[##_1L|1268714669.gif|width="115" height="75" alt=""|_##]European Union leaders voiced relief at clinching a deal on Friday on a treaty to reform the 27-nation bloc's institutions, replacing a defunct constitution and ending a two-year crisis of conf...
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Pakistan court rejects Musharraf martial law fears
Legal World 10/18/2007Pakistan's top court rejected concerns that President Pervez Musharraf would declare martial law if it rules his controversial election victory invalid.The Supreme Court is hearing challenges against his landslide victory in the October 6 presidentia...
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China "furious" at Dalai Lama's U.S. award
Legal World 10/16/2007China expressed fury on Tuesday that the United States is to honor the Dalai Lama with an award and warned that the activities of his supporters were increasing in Chinese-controlled Tibet.The Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since staging...
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EU Court Backs Mandatory Retirement Age
Legal World 10/16/2007[##_1L|1313125953.gif|width="115" height="75" alt=""|_##]The European Union's highest court on Tuesday backed the system of mandatory retirement age to combat high unemployment. In a judgment, the European Court of Justice said that even though discr...
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3 Americans share Nobel economics prize
Legal World 10/14/2007Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for developing a theory that helps explain how incentives and private information affect the functioning of markets.Hurwicz, 90, is the oldest No...
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30 Tried in Spain in Court Bombing Plot
Legal World 10/14/2007Thirty people went on trial Monday for allegedly plotting to blow up a court that is the hub of Spain's anti-terror investigations.The 30 men, mostly Algerians, have been charged with membership of a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a ter...