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Sir Martin Sorrell, the advertising tycoon, settled his libel and privacy actions for £120,000 today. The 62-year-old chief executive of WPP said his costs would total £1 million of which the defendants his former colleagues Marco Benatti and Marco Tinelli had agreed to contribute £50,000. Sir Martin had claimed the pair were behind a blog […]

Roman Abramovich is the latest tycoon to part with his money after the collapse of his marriage. The billions at stake put his case in a different league from the marital disputes now before the courts in Britain. Yet the divorce of Chelsea FC’s owner could be part of a growing trend. Abramovich is one

In the first conviction of a Guantánamo detainee before a military commission, an Australian who was trained by Al Qaeda pleaded guilty here Monday to providing material support to a terrorist organization. The guilty plea by the detainee, David Hicks, was the first under a new military commission law passed by Congress in the fall

Australian detainee David Hicks has pleaded guilty at a military court at Guantanamo Bay to charges of providing material support for terrorism. The 31-year-old Muslim convert was accused of attending al-Qaeda training camps and fighting with the Taleban. The plea means that Hicks, who has been at the camp for five years, will return to

One of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his dismissal. John McKay of Washington state, who had decided two years earlier not to bring voter fraud charges

So there I sat, watching the United States government in all its majesty dragging into court the American press (in all its piety), forcing reporters to betray confidences, rifling their files and notebooks, making them swear to their confused memories and motives and burdening their bosses with hefty legal fees — all for the high-sounding

Last year lawyer Michael J. Kline told two brand managers for Coca-Cola Classic that they could sue their company’s calorie-free soda brand, Coca-Cola Zero, for “taste infringement.” Really. And it’s all on camera, too. But lest you think Kline should be sent back to law school — where they teach that class about how it’s

Oracle accused arch-rival SAP of “corporate theft on a grand scale” in a lawsuit filed Thursday against the German software company. The Redwood City software maker said SAP used the log-ins of soon-to-be-ex-Oracle customers to download thousands of copyrighted software products and support materials from Oracle’s own customer support systems, according to the complaint. Oracle,

A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornographic Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled Thursday, in a blow to government efforts to restrict Internet smut. A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled Thursday, in