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The judge in the Michael Jackson trial Thursday ordered celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos to testify Friday as subpoenaed by his former client’s defense team. Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville flatly rejected a request to delay the lawyer’s appearance because of a scheduling conflict. Geragos represented Jackson after his arrest on child molestation […]

The European Union’s Competition Commission chief said Monday that Microsoft must resolve antitrust violations by the end of May. “We made a deal that, before the end of the month, we would reach an agreement. We are waiting for the Microsoft people to do their homework,” European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said. Microsoft acknowledged that

Big Business is certainly touting it as a big win. On May 31, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a Justice Dept. claim that accounting firm Arthur Andersen knowingly impeded a federal probe when its execs instructed employees to destroy documents that might have proven key to a government case against Enron. Arthur Andersen is vindicated,

The UK magic circle had a truly ropey year in 2004. Indeed, anyone espousing the cause of the European independent firmmight have felt vindicated. Average profits at the UK/European big four slipped across the board. Clifford Chance’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) dropped from €913,000 (£644,000) to £562,000; Linklaters’ from €1m (£734,000) to £674,000;

John J. Rigas, who built the Adelphia Communications Corporation into the country’s sixth-largest cable company, was sentenced to 15 years of prison today for looting hundreds of millions of dollars from the company’s coffers and concealing its true debt load from investors. John Rigas, the founder of Adelphia Communications, entering court today. “Even to this

Last weekend over 110,000 music fans paid £125 ($228) each to attend the Glastonbury festival in Britain’s West Country and hear their favourite bands perform. In years gone by, many thousands more attended than paid, as less scrupulous festival-goers jumped the fence to watch the bands for free. The organisers stamped out the practice by

A federal judge found a former attorney for Aaron Patterson in civil contempt Wednesday for staging two tearful walkouts during the former death row inmate’s trial on drug and firearms charges. Defense attorney Demitrus Evans, 37, first stormed out of the courtroom after one of Patterson’s many emotional outbursts in June during his pretrial hearings.

Stanford Law Professor Jenny Martinez is just 33, yet she’s already stood before the Supreme Court to argue a case she is very passionate and very knowledgeable about, the case of “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla. Padilla, an American citizen, was picked up on May 8, 2002, as a material witness, while flying into O’Hare International

Ruling in a case that exposed the behind-the-scenes animosity between two high-tech titans, a state judge cleared the way Tuesday for a former Microsoft Corp. executive to perform some of the tasks rival Google Inc. had hired him to do. King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez is still barring Kai-Fu Lee from doing work

US regulators last night took action against Refco, one of the world’s largest derivatives brokers, as the repercussions of its chief executive being charged with fraud continued to reverberate across Wall Street. In a step that reflected the severity of the situation, the securities and exchange commission placed trading restrictions on the business, limiting Refco