Joseph Sellers, an attorney representing the female Wal-Mart employees, said as many as 15 class actions will be filed targeting the retail giant's regional areas.
Anonymous, which opens tomorrow, wants to convince movie-goers that Shakespeare was a fraud. The movie's main success, however, is to illuminate how class-oriented and false the anti-Stratford argument- that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else- truly is, asserting as it does that a commoner could never be a genius.
Mississippi is considering a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban all abortions, in the most direct state challenge yet to the Roe v. Wade precedent.
Brazil's sports minister resigned on Wednesday over a corruption scandal, reviving concern about President Dilma Rousseff's unstable coalition and the country's lagging preparations for the 2014 soccer World Cup.
U.S. Supreme Court justices have leeway to choose which legal challenge to the health care reform law to take up. They could also refuse to take the case at all.
Asian Carp are a problem for the Great Lake States -- and they're asking the Supreme Court to help them do something about it.
A lawyer for a group of protesters arrested in 2008 say a law prohibiting protests on U.S. Supreme Court grounds is too broad and violates the First Amendment.
Amanda Knox may have been acquitted from the Meredith Kercher murder case on Oct.3 but ever since she has been tangled up in rumors that Kercher's family are getting ready to sue her for $12 million- a claim that was slammed by Kercher's father on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama is targeting African Americans and Latinos with his visit to Los Angeles Monday, but here's the demographic he's really after: People with money.
Levi Aron, the man charged with the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and his attorneys are now saying that a previously offered confession from Aron was the outcome of coercion by the police.
Four Blackwater Worldwide guards asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court ruling that dismissed their indictment due to tainted evidence.
The recent bankruptcy of solar energy company Solyndra raises questions regarding its relationship with the U.S. Department of Energy, which allegedly modified a loan agreement to prevent the tettering company from going under. The incident casts a shadow over the solar energy industry, already a controversial field.
Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.
The California Board of Parole has denied offering a compassionate release to infamous Onion Field killer Gregory Powell during a Tuesday meeting. Powell, who is now serving a life sentence, was convicted of killing a cop named Ian Campbell around 48 years ago.
Princeton University Prof. Cornel West was arrested Friday, the second time this week, at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Harlem protesting outside a police precinct against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy.
Mongolia's Supreme Court has ordered the government to enforce a ban on mining in river and forest areas following an appeal submitted by activists who said the country's fragile environment was threatened by reckless mining.
Liquidnet Inc, a U.S. venue where institutions anonymously trade public stocks, was sued by Wedbush Securities Inc for allegedly stealing trade secrets to start a rival business trading shares of private companies.
Supporters of businessman Herman Cain launched a so-called super PAC that will allow corporations to donate unlimited sums of money that can be used to boost a candidate or attack a rival.
The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide if victims and their families can sue corporations or political organizations in America for human rights abuses in other countries.
Gilad Shalit was released on Tuesday, after being held captive for five years by Palestinian political group Hamas. After years of protests, failed compromises and international outrage, the Israeli solder was finally reunited with his family.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's legal adviser and failed U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork says he still believes that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment should not apply to women.
Since President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Affordable Care Act in 2010, only a dozen states have created the legal authority for a health insurance exchange to comply with the law, while five have passed legislation to produce feasibility studies.
