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Italian police reportedly seized nearly $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland and arrested eight Italians in connection with international fraud and financial crimes.

Dozens of Costa Concordia survivors have joined in a Florida lawsuit against Carnival Corp. accusing them of negligence and fraud.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday reached a landmark decision in a case pitting privacy against law enforcement use of GPS technology. But does the ruling go far enough to prevent George Orwell's 1984 scenario?

A major Internet content hosting website, Megaupload.com, its founders and employees have been charged by a U.S. grand jury over a massive copyright infringement scheme, the latest skirmish in a battle against piracy of movies and music.

It turns out Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, has been caught red-handed infringing copyright with an image used on his personal Web site.

Sweden dealt a symbolic blow to the global fight against digital music and film piracy by recognising a group that promotes file-sharing across the Internet as a religion.

Silvercorp Metals Inc., whose shares plummeted after reports of accounting and resource statement fraud, has amended its lawsuit against those it sees as responsible for the allegedly defamatory reports.

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.

54 Canal Street, the former site of Jarmulowsky Bank in Manhattan, has sold for $36 million, according to city records.

Crystal Cox, a self-proclaimed investigative blogger, has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for defamation.

Murray will likely face a civil wrongful death suit

A federal appeals court threw out on Friday an antitrust class-action lawsuit accusing seven companies of engaging in a global conspiracy to raise the price of potash, a mineral used mainly in fertilizer.

Zambians wary of electoral fraud flocked to the Internet and social media on Tuesday to expose any irregularities in a closely contested presidential and parliamentary poll.

A federal grand jury has indicted five individuals involved with the website NinaVideo.net with conspiracy and copyright infringement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Friday.

Study shows that medical malpractice suits are rarely successful.

Every physician will face at least one malpractice claim over the course of his career, MedPage Today reported. The likelihood increases dramatically for neurosurgeons. Three of four malpractice are resolved with no payment to the plaintiff, researchers said.

Kuwait's Agility , the logistics firm facing U.S. fraud charges, posted a 57 percent drop in second-quarter net profit, but still slightly beat forecasts.

A federal judge on Monday placed an injunction on unlicensed video-on-demand service provider Zediva, siding with a copyright infringement complaint filed by the major studios in April.

Two negligent mothers left their children in a sweltering car while they drank at a bar.

China said on Tuesday its crackdown on pirated goods has made great strides, a claim borne out by government statistics but not necessarily by a trip to one of Beijing's many shops where pirated software, movies and clothes are readily available.

The hotel chambermaid at the center of the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a libel suit against the New York Post newspaper and five of its reporters for describing her as a prostitute in a story.