A federal judge in California Court has ordered the destruction of genetically engineered sugar beets after finding that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had likely violated federal law by allowing the plantation of the stecklings without analyzing the potential environmental impact.
Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year old Russian, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he is the mastermind behind a notorious botnet, dubbed Mega-D, that controlled a network of infected computers and generated some 10 billion spam e-mails daily, or a third of the world's total.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is 40 years old this week. It may have been born later, or it may not have been born at all, if not for a dedicated U.S. lawmaker and a burning river.
A federal jury has found a 33-year-old Connecticut man guilty of conspiracy and firearms offenses stemming from an alleged attempt to sell firearms and grenades to what he believed was a white supremacist group.
Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) has agreed to plead guilty in a price-fixing case and pay a $48 million criminal fine, the U.S. Justice Department has announced.
Whistle-blower-turned fugitive Julian Assange stayed off the hot trails of the Interpol on Friday to do a live chat on The Guardian; and he was reportedly flooded with messages brimming over with admiration, fulsome praise and offers of donations and other help.
Whistle-blower site Wikileaks has been killed Worldwide. Servers in the United States have killed the site's domain name after they claimed mass attacks. The withdrawal of the domain name implies that the website has been shutdown across the World. A twitter message of the website posted on Friday confirms the reports.
A lawyer, who did not tell his clients that he has been disbarred from practicing and committed fraud on them by forging court documents, has been jailed for criminal contempt.
A Circuit Court judge in Shelbyville, Tennessee has been reprimanded by a disciplinary court for waiting 11 years to rule on a case.
Global law firm Clifford Chance has denied the charges of discrimination slapped against it in a lawsuit filed by a former associate in connection with 2007 layoffs.
The top Republican lawmaker on a key U.S. military oversight committee, while leaving open the possibility of eventually dropping his opposition to the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers, said doing so at this time would be premature.
Amazon removed whistle blowing website WikiLeaks from its servers amid pressure from federal lawmakers who were upset with WikiLeaks' recent release of certain confidential and sensitive government information.
The highest Court in Sweden has rejected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's appeal against his detention orders on Thursday. The Apex Court confirmed the earlier decision of the Svea Appeals Court to uphold the detention order. Earlier this week Assange's lawyer appealed against an arrest warrant issued against the 39-year-old Australian.
Hershey Co., producer of Reese's chocolate candies, has filed a lawsuit against Mars Inc., complaining that the wrapping of the latter's Dove line of peanut butter and chocolate bars copy its packaging.
A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.
The U.S. government had been secretly sheltering Nazi war criminals for several years and has clashed with other nations over their fate, a 600-page report, which the Department of Justice has tried to keep hidden from the public, reveals.
Neve Campbell to divorce English actor husband
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stormed into offices of three large hedge funds in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and seized documents in a string of raids that is being billed as a crackdown on insider trading by hedge funds, mutual funds and investment bankers.
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the original tapes containing conversations between corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and others pertaining to the 2G spectrum allocation to be handed over to it in a sealed cover after industrialist and chairman of Tata group Ratan Tata moved the apex court on Monday seeking action against those involved in the leakage of tapes containing his conversation with Radia..
Toyota Motors has filed a law suit for damages against General Motors Co.'s against bankruptcy estate over the closure of their joint manufacturing plant in California.
Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. France-based international police organization charged Assange of sex crimes and put him on its most wanted list. The 39-year-old Australian was wanted for questioning over rape allegations against him. The Notice is likely to make his international travel more complicated. Meanwhile, Ecuador President also denied reports of offering residency to Assange.
The U.S. Department of Defense is scheduled to release on Tuesday its research findings and report examining the effects of repealing the 1993 Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
