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A secretary has won a nine-year legal battle against the Government in a case that will have far-reaching consequences for thousands of women. Michelle Alabaster began legal proceedings after claiming that her former employer broke European sex discrimination law by underpaying her during maternity leave. Spanning nearly a decade, the case passed from an employment […]

Michael Jackson’s former attorney said Friday that, long before a family had accused the star of child molestation and false imprisonment, he viewed their relationship with Jackson as a “pending disaster” and suspected they were after his client’s money. “I thought they were going to shake him down,” attorney Mark Geragos testified as Jackson’s defense

Fourteen Republican and Democratic senators announced this evening they had reached a compromise designed to prevent a showdown over President Bush’s judicial nominations. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), speaking for the group of seven Republicans and seven Democrats, announced the agreement at a news conference at 7:40 p.m. Under the deal, the Democrats agreed to accept

In 1970, when I was serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and assigned to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, the chief of naval operations, I sometimes acted as a courier, taking documents to the White House. One evening I was dispatched with a package to the lower level of the West Wing of the

Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, pleaded for leniency yesterday from the judge who will sentence him for his conviction on charges of orchestrating the largest securities fraud in the nation’s history. Lawyers for Mr. Ebbers, who will be sentenced on July 13, asked the court to depart from federal guidelines when

It was likely the final chapter in a story that has troubled a generation. On the 41st anniversary of the disappearance of three young, idealistic civil rights workers near here, a jury pronounced Edgar Ray Killen guilty today of three counts of manslaughter in their deaths. Mr. Killen, 80, sat in a wheelchair, the thin

Federal prosecutors in New York have asked a judge to sentence former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers to spend the rest of his life in prison for leading the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. In a court filing unsealed yesterday, the government urged U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones to reject any

A federal grand jury yesterday indicted the former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and prosecutors signaled that he is cooperating with a criminal investigation into alleged improper dealings by media tycoon Conrad M. Black. F. David Radler, who was Black’s second in command at Hollinger International Inc., is assisting the authorities and is expected to

Pretrial motions continued on Tuesday for the upcoming second product-liability trial involving Merck & Co.’s withdrawn arthritis drug, Vioxx, this time in a New Jersey state court. Jury selection for the new trial is scheduled to begin on Sept. 12 in the Atlantic City courtroom of Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee. During preliminaries on Monday,

The first barrister to be paid more than £1m in one year from legal aid was named yesterday in a government report which showed that the top 12 lawyers in the field earn more than £600,000 from taxpayers. Top of the list was James Sturman QC, who acted for Jose Mourinho in the Ashley Cole