Michael Sitrick is the biggest name in crisis management, but the public relations guru is grappling with plunging earnings and a stream of executive defections that have set tongues wagging.
The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether companies can be liable in this country for international human rights law violations, a case involving allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.
The patent war continues.
Steve Tausan, a notorious sergeant-at-arms member for the California Hells Angels biker gang, was killed while attending the funeral of Angels boss Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew, in San Jose on Saturday.
Born This Way singer Lady Gaga has successfully banned the animated character, Lady Goo Goo, who strongly resembles her in looks and action.
Ads for General Mills fruit snacks mislead customers into thinking products like its Fruit Roll-Ups are healthy, when they actually lack significant amounts of real, natural fruit, according to a new lawsuit.
A U.S. appeals court panel placed a temporary injunction on enforcing part of the law requiring suspected illegal immigrants to carry papers and a part that makes schools collect the immigration status of new students and their parents.
A U.S. Navy Veteran is suing the Department of Veteran Affairs after the agency denied her spousal disability benefits, citing a federal law that defines marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.
The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.
Albert Florence, mistakenly arrested over an unpaid fine, sued two New Jersey county jails for violating his constitutional rights when he was strip searched.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are hitting the headlines on a daily basis, with news reports having that the six-year marriage between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher - speculated to have been quietly separated a few months ago - may have hit the rock bottom.
Two former executives of a bank that received a $300 million federal bailout before its collapse during the financial crisis are facing criminal and civil fraud charges for their role in trying to conceal loan losses.
Even as Wall Street is being occupied and corporations are reviled, there is a revolution quietly raging across the country that empowers corporations to be a strong force for good. This week, California joined that revolution when Governor Jerry Brown created two new classes of corporations for businesses that seek to pursue both profit and purpose: Benefit Corporations and Flexible Purpose Corporations.
Boston College athletic director Geno DeFilippo apologized for speaking inappropriately and erroneously about ESPN's role in the ACC's expansion efforts.
Samsung and Google delayed the release of their new products following the death of Steve Jobs out of respect for the legendary man that changed the landscape of the technology world forever.
Ever since T-Mobile submitted an amicus brief in the Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit saying that it had a boatload of new products to unveil for the holiday season, customers have been trying to get a peek into the trunk of Santa's sleigh. Last week, blog TMo News announced that it had obtained a leaked roadmap of the devices mobile phone carrier T-Mobile is planning to roll out over the next month.
At least one town in Alabama has warned undocumented immigrants that their water supply will be cut off if they cannot prove they are U.S. citizens.
Trial against former astronaut who kept camera will take place.
Casey Anthony, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, gave a video deposition on Saturday in a defamation suit filed by a woman who alleged Anthony ruined her life when Anthony's 2-year-old daughter went missing in July 2008.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's lawsuit against Dick Clark Productions -- originally scheduled for this past September -- may not go to trial until next July, documents filed in a Los Angeles federal court Thursday revealed.
A Muslim woman, Irum Abbasi, was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane after a flight attended became confused over a phone conversation. Now, she is suing for discrimination
