Losing still more legal appeals, Terri Schiavo’s father warned Friday that his severely brain-damaged daughter was “down to her last hours” as she entered her second week without the feeding tube that had sustained her life for 15 years. Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the feeding tube […]

The Internal Revenue Service has collected more than $3.2 billion in back taxes, interest and penalties from participants in a single tax shelter, including $100 million from one taxpayer and $20 million each from 18 others, the agency said today. The total take for the agency from participants in the shelter is expected to top

In a twist likely to further complicate the prosecution’s efforts to convict Michael Jackson, a former bodyguard expected to be a key witness against the pop star is sitting in a Las Vegas jail, facing a slew of felony charges stemming from four armed robberies. A spokeswoman for the Clark County, Nevada, district attorney’s office

US prosecutors disclosed time they had launched a criminal probe against media tycoon Conrad Black, who is already besieged by several lawsuits and regulatory probes. Federal prosecutors are investigating Black for allegedly diverting funds from his media empire, Randall Samborn, spokesman for the US Attorney’s office in Chicago, told AFP. Samborn said the prosecutor’s office

A federal appeals court refused early Wednesday to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, denying the latest emergency request by the severely brain-damaged woman’s parents to keep her alive. A panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 ruling that the parents “failed to demonstrate a substantial case on

The former partners of now-defunct law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco didn’t let mere bad times stop them a few years ago. According to suits filed in January by Brobeck’s bankruptcy trustee, Ronald F. Greenspan, the 223 former partners maintained their distributions–a total of $264 million in 2001 and 2002–even though the

Closing a difficult chapter, Time Warner Inc. said Monday it would pay $300 million and restate three years of financial results to settle civil fraud charges stemming from its accounting of online advertising revenues and subscriber counts at its AOL unit. The settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission also calls for the world’s largest

A federal judge weighed the fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman on Monday, acting hours after the U.S. Congress and President Bush intervened to push the highly charged right-to-die case back into court. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore began a hearing shortly after 3 p.m. EST to consider a request from Terri Schiavo’s parents to

John Carroll, the managing partner of Clifford Chance’s Americas region has announced he is stepping down from the role, nearly nine months before his term was due to expire. The move comes just two months after managing partner Peter Cornell jetted to New York to troubleshoot the firm’s US operation. Carroll, who cited a desire

It took eight years of political maneuvering, but a bill to overhaul the nation’s bankruptcy system now looks close to becoming law. If it does, that’s when the real fight will begin. Lawyers who have combed through the 501-page bill say that despite its attempt at specificity and bright-line tests to tell the truly destitute