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U.S. military prosecutors yesterday charged a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison with murder and other crimes for allegedly planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship, a bombing that killed 17 U.S. service members and injured nearly 50 others. Pentagon officials announced eight charges against Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen […]

In what the Justice Department calls one of the largest antitrust settlements in U.S. history, four international airlines agreed on Thursday to pay $504 million to settle charges that they conspired to fix air cargo rates. The airlines involved in the settlement are Air France-KLM, Cathay Pacific, SAS, and Martinair. “As part of the conspiracy,

The Canadian and American bars have more than language in common. They share some of the same problems, such as how to keep women from fleeing firms. In an effort to stop women from leaving private practice, a number of initiatives will be rolled out in Ontario as part of a program officials hope will

There were women in pearls, men in seersucker — enough well-heeled Mississippians to conjure up a charity auction or summer fete. They were crowded Friday into a small wood-paneled federal courtroom behind a long line of sober, dark-suited attorneys to watch Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs, a legendary plaintiffs’ attorney, receive a five-year prison sentence after

The grueling legal and environmental odyssey for Alaska fishermen and the Minneapolis law firm of Faegre & Benson came to a climactic conclusion Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court sliced punitive damages from the 1979 Exxon Valdez oil spill to $507 million — a tenth of what a jury awarded 14 years ago. Under Wednesday’s

Conrad Black has lost an appeal of fraud and obstruction of justice convictions and will have to serve out his sentence in a Florida prison for what the court described as a “misuse” of his position as Hollinger’s chief executive “for private gain.” The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal in Chicago affirmed the convictions Wednesday,

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday. The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what