SUPREME COURT

General Electric (GE) and a slew of trade groups for the oil, agriculture and manufacturing industries are supporting a family seeking to challenge Environmental Protection Agency authority.

Computer services firm Mahindra Satyam said it had filed a lawsuit against past directors, some ex-employees and former auditor Pricewaterhouse, seeking damages after the company was hit by a fraud in 2009 that became the country's biggest corporate scandal.

Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States denied any involvement in drafting a memo that accused the army of plotting a coup and suggested on the first day of a Supreme Court commission on Monday he was being framed.

Amir Mirzai Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent, “confessed” to espionage before the court in Teheran.

Lucky that A New Yorker's Opinion has an unlimited ability to get to anyone.

Lucky that A New Yorker's Opinion has an unlimited ability to get to anyone.

An Ontario judge has ruled that a C$50 billion ($48.82 billion) lawsuit against a group of 14 tobacco companies can proceed, after rejecting an application to dismiss the lawsuit by a group of seven companies.

Group says that it will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take its challenge to Montana's century-old ban on corporate political spending.

Congress is working on a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act and it's meant to prevent copyright infringement and illegally spreading content through Web sites. The proposed bill is working its way through the House of Representatives and the Senate is working on a similar bill called the Protect IP Act.

Youthful offenders are subject to a litany of abuses, including sexual assault, from their fellow inmates and from corrections officers.

Now that a federal ruling has allowed the FBI to hook up a GPS device to a Missouri man's car without a warrant, will jack-booted thugs be coming in the night for the rest of us? That depends now on what the Supreme Court says about the practice, although they won't rule on the case until later this year.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) lost a key ruling against MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI), which granted the latter company court permission to pursue further legal action against Bank of America, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The Montana Supreme Court rejected an attempt to overturn a state ban on corporate political spending in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

JPMorgan Chase & Co has been sued for $95 million by the trustee for securities marketed in 2005 by the former Bear Stearns Cos over alleged misrepresentations regarding the underlying mortgage loans.

Chief Justices John Roberts focused his year-end report on ethics at the nation's high court amid calls for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the health care law case.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a law giving telecommunication giants immunity over the Bush Administration's domestic surveillance program, but authorized lawsuits against the federal government.

The U.S. Supreme Court would be barred from hearing cases challenging state laws on privacy, prayer and marriage.

For many years, Allende’s death has been a mystery.

In a major victory for California Governor Jerry Brown, the state supreme court on Thursday upheld a law that would eliminate 400 local redevelopment agencies and could divert billions of dollars to schools and other local services.

An appeals court ruled that a letter linked to Mark Hurd's abrupt departure from his post as chief of Hewlett-Packard Co should be unsealed, potentially revealing new details about his dramatic exit from the technology giant.

An appeals court ruled that a letter linked to Mark Hurd's abrupt departure from his post as chief of Hewlett-Packard Co should be unsealed, potentially revealing new details about his dramatic exit from the technology giant.