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Reports on the ruling of a federal judge in the U.S. that accounting firm BDO Seidman LLP does not have to turn over confidential documents in its fight against government accusations that it sold abusive tax shelters. Bases of the court's decision.

The article focuses on Prince Harry facing a setback in his legal battle against Britain's tabloids as a high court rejects his bid to involve Rupert Murdoch in allegations regarding the digging up of personal details by Murdoch's London papers, emphasizing the need for proportionate legal actions.

Harold Wenning, 69, remembers what he called ''the one-for-five trick'' from his days running a news kiosk in Midtown Manhattan. ''They'll say it's a five and give you a one,'' he said. ''I had a guy say it was a 20 once and he gave me a one. I had a guy buy a roll of quarters from me and he gave me a dollar. That happens.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the disputes between universities and student newspapers in the U.S. over the transparency of sexual assault cases. Topics discussed include lawsuit filed by the University of Kentucky against campus newspaper "The Kentucky Kernel," remarks from University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto, and information on the sexual assault case against entomology professor, James Harwood.

The article reports on the released U.S. court document which states that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno knew the involvement of his former assistant Jerry Sandusky on child abuse. Topics discussed include the issue on reimbursement of the settlement with the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance, the several professionals who knows the scandal of the former coach, and the convincing deposition on the case involving Paterno, according to the victim's lawyer.

The article discusses entrepreneur Aaron Kushner's management of "The Orange County Register" newspaper, which is owned by Kushner's Freedom Communications media company, highlighting a lawsuits and problems facing Kushner. Topics addressed include Kushner's decision to resign as publisher of the "Orange County Register," as well as lawsuits filed by the "The Los Angeles Times" newspaper and other parties against Kushner for allegedly failing to make various payments.

Presents information on the lawsuit filed by Brickman Associates against International Paper on October 24, 2000 over the sale of a wooded property in Connecticut. Details on the sale of the land to the Trust for Public Land conservation group; Plans of Brickman Associates for the area.

The article examines financial services firm JP Morgan Chase's failure to report stockbroker Bernard L.Madoff's suspicious activity while he ran a Ponzi scheme as a JP Morgan client. The author argues that incompetence, rather than a deliberate cover-up, at JP Morgan was the key factor in failing to report Madoff's scheme, and he analyzes corporate documents released by U.S. federal prosecutors as part of a legal case against JPMorgan.

Reports that on March 18, 1997, a Federal court in the United States ruled that criminal charges of price fixing can be brought against foreign companies doing business in that country. Historical significance of the ruling; Price-fixing charges filed against Japan's Nippon Paper Industries Company; Names of other companies that have been accused of fixing prices.

The article reports that court documents in a lawsuit filed against Wachovia bank show that the bank had long been aware of claims of fraud made against telemarketers who had accounts with the bank, and had in fact actively solicited their business. The lawsuit was filed against Wachovia by victims of those telemarketers. The documents also show that Wachovia was warned of the frauds by other banks and federal regulators.

This article contends that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, has consistently favored big-business litigants as he has pushed the federal appeals court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a conservative direction. The author reports that Alito has, with few exceptions, sided with employers over employees in discrimination lawsuits and in favor of corporations over investors in securities fraud cases.

Reports that a Texas jury found Merck liable for the death of Robert C. Ernst, who died after taking painkiller Vioxx, and said that Carol Ernst, Ernst's widow, should be awarded $253.5 million. Views of jurors, who concluded that Merck was long aware of Vioxx's potential heart risks but hid those risks from patients; How a number of damaging bad facts overwhelmed the company's defense; Efforts of lawyers, Wall Street analysts and Merck's executives to explain the company's devastating defeat and to predict what the Texas case means for the thousands of additional Vioxx suits that Merck will face; Uncertainty over Merck's future; Intent of jurors to send a powerful message.

Reports on the agreement of United States commercial tissue manufacturers Kimberly-Clark, Fort James Corp. and Georgia Pacific to settle a price-fixing lawsuit. Claims of the lawsuit; Amount the plaintiffs in the settlement will receive; Remarks from Howard Langer, attorney with the plaintiffs.

The article reports on the release of court papers which revealed that Somali terrorist Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame pleaded guilty of terrorism and has been cooperating with the authorities.

The article reports on the conviction of a 52-year-old nanny Yoselyn Ortega for killing the 6-year-old Lucia Krim and the 7-year-old Leo Krim in the bathtub of the family's apartment wherein the nanny show regrets for killing the children.

Relying on an antiquated provision of the New York City Charter, a civil rights lawyer filed papers in State Supreme Court on Friday requesting a judicial hearing on City Council spending practices that have recently come under intense scrutiny. The hearing, known as a summary inquiry, would not determine guilt or innocence, but would merely lay out the facts surrounding the case for public review. Federal prosecutors have been examining a longtime Council practice in which members appropriate discretionary funds to nonexistent organizations and channel the funds to other programs without mayoral approval. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents news briefs related to several business enterprises. The company that owns the LimeWire file-sharing software is said to have filed counterclaim against the recording industry that had sued the company for file-sharing. LimeWire states that it had planned to launch a system that would prevent trading of copyrighted material. Scott Co., a manufacturer of toilet papers, had advertised that its each roll of toilet paper had 1000 sheets. But it failed to acknowledge that each sheet was smaller in size.

Reports on the newly released court papers in the rape case againt Kobe Bryant. Discussion of evidence in a two-day hearing; Persuasion of judge to allow testimony on the woman's sexual history; Testimony of the hearing.

The article offers information on the lawsuit filed by the victims of cholera in Haiti against United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, ordering him to appear in response to the resistance of the United Nations that was being alleged as the cause of cholera in 2010.

Reports that the American Medical Association dismissed the editor of its journal on January 15, 1999 for rushing through a paper on whether college students think oral sex is `having sex' to influence President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. Comments from Doctor E. Ratcliffe Anderson, executive vice president of the association, on editor George D. Lundberg; Details on the paper.

Focuses on the Federalist papers, the collection of articles published by Alexander Hamilton, John Jays and James Madison in 1787 and 1788, to make their case for the adoption of the Constitution, in the wake of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's September 1998 report to the United States Congress. Attention that the papers received after Starr's report on his investigation of American President Bill Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Reports that the International Herald Tribune will settle libel cases brought against it in Singapore courts. Reason for the cases; Amount of money paper agreed to pay; Apology made by the paper.

Focuses on court papers filed by Federal prosecutors which indicated that three days after Abner Louima was reportedly brutalized at Brooklyn, New York City, New York police station house, he identified a photograph of Officer Justin A. Volpe as `looking like' the officer who assaulted him. What the prosecutors are expected to contended at the officer's trial; When the incident occurred; Other issues contended by the papers filed during the week ended May 9, 1998.

States federal prosecutors in New York opened a criminal investigation into the sale of documents supposedly written by John F. Kennedy. A subpoena for records of the documents, which Lawrence X. Cusack 3d said he found in his late father's papers; Cusack selling the documents to investors in the United States; The amount of money investors paid; Background on the case.

A London lawyer closely involved in pursuing cases involving Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids said Friday that his firm was suing The Times of London, also part of Mr. Murdoch's News International group, over e-mail hacking for which the newspaper has apologized. The suit concerns a case in which a reporter who is no longer with the newspaper hacked into the e-mail account of a police detective who ran an award-winning blog. The claim, said the lawyer, Mark Lewis, ''is not just on misuse of information or privacy grounds, but also a claim for what lawyers would call deceit,'' based on denials the newspaper made. A spokeswoman for News International confirmed the lawsuit had been filed but declined to comment further. The blogger's true identity was not publicly known until an article in The Times of London in 2009 identified him. At a hearing in February into press ethics and practices, James Harding, the editor of The Times of London, apologized on behalf of the newspaper, reversing its earlier denials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On Broadway, profitable shows are rare, few people get rich, and rave reviews are impossible to predict. Reputation is the true lucre in theater -- and reputation, more than anything, is what's at stake in the director Julie Taymor's latest salvo in her lawsuit against the producers who fired her last year from ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.'' A 46-page filing in federal court on Friday disclosed a trove of private e-mails among the show's principals that put Ms. Taymor's famous ''Spider-Man'' collaborators, Bono and the Edge of U2, on notice that they could face more potentially embarrassing revelations if her case goes to trial next January as scheduled. A courtroom battle would likely force Bono to respond to the e-mail claims that in January 2011, soon after ''Spider-Man'' actors were injured because of technical problems and when the musical was a laughingstock on late-night television, he showed up at a creative meeting with supermodels in tow, too drunk on beer to contribute usefully. The producers too would have to rebut e-mails that, Ms. Taymor alleges, show they conspired with Bono, the Edge and others to rewrite the ''Spider-Man'' script over which she had approval. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Fifty people have been accused of conspiring to sell the identities of hundreds of Puerto Ricans to illegal immigrants on the American mainland in the largest single fraud case ever for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the authorities said Wednesday. Hundreds of birth certificates, Social Security numbers and driver's licenses were sold for up to $2,500 a set as part of a black market based in Puerto Rico that had operated since at least 2009, according to John Morton, the agency director. The ring consisted of suppliers, runners and brokers, who made coded phone calls asking for ''skirts'' for female customers and ''pants'' for males in specific ''sizes,'' which referred to ages and identities sought, according to the agency. The 50 suspects were indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 29 on one charge each of conspiracy to commit identification fraud. They face up to 15 years in prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

About 15 minutes after police detectives from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn off a Paris-bound flight, he told them he had diplomatic immunity, according to a document filed by prosecutors on Thursday. Then, after he was handcuffed, Mr. Strauss-Kahn -- at the time the managing director of the International Monetary Fund -- asked to speak to someone from the French consulate and requested that his handcuffs be secured in front of him rather than behind his back. When it became clear that he would miss his flight, he asked to make a call so he could let people know he would not be at a meeting the next day. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Chevron Corporation says in federal court filings in Manhattan that footage it was provided from the Joe Berlinger documentary ''Crude'' demonstrated ''pervasive corruption and fraud'' by lawyers representing Ecuadorians who are suing the company, an accusation those lawyers vigorously dispute. In July a federal appeals court ruled that Mr. Berlinger had to provide the oil company with some footage from his 2009 film, which chronicles Ecuadorians who say that an oil field established by Texaco (now owned by Chevron) polluted their water. Chevron said in a statement that interactions between lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs and a court-appointed expert showed the parties ''engaged in an illegal scheme to corrupt the proceedings in Ecuador.'' Ilann M. Maazel, a lawyer whose firm represents the Ecuadorean plaintiffs, said that neither Chevron nor Mr. Berlinger had provided his team with the film outtakes, and that lawyers for Chevron had similar access to court experts. ''They cherrypick a couple of minutes and share it with the court, but they're not willing to release all the tapes,'' Mr. Maazel said in a telephone interview. He said that neither Chevron nor Mr. Berlinger would provide the outtakes to him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A New York State judge unsealed several documents in New York University's lawsuit against the financier J. Ezra Merkin, including testimony from a convicted felon who served as an adviser and fund manager. N.Y.U. is suing Mr. Merkin and his firm, Gabriel Capital, for placing $24 million of the school's endowment money in the hands of Bernard L. Madoff, who pleaded guilty last month to running a giant Ponzi scheme. Among the documents unsealed were depositions from Mr. Merkin; e-mail messages written by Victor Teicher, who was convicted of securities fraud in 1992 and managed several funds for Mr. Merkin in the late 1990s; and quarterly letters to investors in Mr. Merkin's funds. Lawyers for N.Y.U. aim to show that Mr. Merkin breached his fiduciary duty to investors by hiding the Madoff investment from them. They are basing part of their claim on the testimony of Mr. Teicher, who said he warned Mr. Merkin several times over the years that Mr. Madoff's consistent profits were not possible. The documents were unsealed after the Fox Business Network filed a lawsuit petitioning the court to provide the public with more information about the case. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A classical music critic who was removed from his post at The Cleveland Plain Dealer after a history of negative reviews of the Cleveland Orchestra's music director struck back on Thursday with a lawsuit. The critic, Donald Rosenberg, charged that orchestra officials had waged a ''campaign of vilification'' against him and that his bosses at the newspaper had caved in to demands that he be ousted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A sheaf of documents that a federal court forced the Treasury Department to release indicate there have been repeated complaints from American consumers who have been falsely linked to terrorism or drug trafficking during routine credit checks, the organization that sought the documents in a lawsuit said Tuesday. The more than 100 pages of documents released Monday to the organization, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, include a variety of complaints about the list maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset Control in the Treasury Department, said Philip Hwang, a lawyer for the group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses a court case wherein Vincent Basciano, a former gangster, has accused his former best friend, Dominick Cicale of implicating him in a murder plot. It is mentioned that the trouble between Cicale and Basciano started in July 2007 while they were inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, New York City.

The article reports that the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has upheld a $2 million libel verdict in a lawsuit against the newspaper "The Boston Herald" and one of its reporters. The lawsuit concerns a series of articles and columns about Judge Ernest B. Murphy of the Superior Court in Massachusetts. The articles said that Murphy made disparaging comments about crime victims and was lenient with criminals.

The article reports that federal prosecutors in the U.S. who are investigating Deutsche Bank are providing documents of the bank to lawyers defending former employees of the accounting firm KPMG in a separate criminal case.

The article presents information on the conviction of Barbara L. Moore, a Texas citizen, for criminal possession of stolen property. The court found her guilty of possessing two pieces of Glenn Gould memorabilia which were stolen from the Canadian national library. But she was acquitted by the court for two more cases of grand larceny.

The article presents information regarding the prison sentence that has been given to former chief executive of American Tissue Corp., Mehdi Gabayzadeh. He has been charged with eight criminal charges including conspiracy and wire fraud. Joanna Seybert, judge of the Federal District Court in Central Islip, New York, has sentenced Gabayzadeh with a 15 year term and fined him with $65 million.

The article reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has provided documents sought by lawyers defending Vice President Dick Cheney's aide I. Lewis Libby Jr., who is charged with perjury.

The article reports that Jose Padilla, who was accused by the U.S. government of plotting to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb, has been allowed to see classified government documents before his trial on charges of conspiring to wage and support international terrorism.

Reports that Samuel R. Berger, national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and give up his security clearance for removing classified material from a government archive in the U.S.

Discusses how the drug company Warner-Lambert was allegedly involved in the promotion of unapproved uses of the drug Neurontin. How Warner-Lambert paid doctors to speak to other physicians about how Neurontin could be prescribed for many medical uses; Claims from former Warner-Lambert employee David Frank, that the company's marketing tactics were illegal; Consideration of how Neurontin was not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; How Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert in 2000; Results of a survey of doctors who had received marketing appeals from the company's sales representatives.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Reports that the United States may charge the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Company with obstruction of justice in the investigation of Enron Corporation. Statement that federal prosecutors have prepared a multicount criminal indictment of the firm; Impact that this could have on the future of Arthur Andersen; Allegations that the company engaged in destruction of documents related to Enron.

Reports that the United States General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, is suing Vice President Dick Cheney to try to force the White House to reveal the identies of energy industry executives who helped the administration develop a national energy policy in 2001. Details of the lawsuit; Way that Congress is trying to determine whether executives from corporations who contributed to President George W. Bush's 2000 campaign helped shape the national energy policy; Comments on the investigation.

Focuses on the case of Dmitri Sklyarov, a Russian cryptographer who was arrested in the United States and charged with trafficking of a program that decrypts copyright protections on Adobe Systems' software for electronic books. How this has initiated the first criminal case under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998; Public support for Sklyarov; How he was arrested at a conference for computer hackers after giving a presentation on electronic book security.

Reports on the billing-fraud case which federal prosecutors have filed against Dr. Joseph Spinella relating to allegations of excessive Medicare payments for prescription drugs. Allegations that he conspired with drugmaker TAP Pharmaceutical Products to receive money for prescribing prostate-cancer drug Lupron; Company history of TAP Pharmaceuticals.

Focuses on the reinstatement of several workers of `The Detroit News' and `The Detroit Free Press' discharged in the course of labor protests while on strike in Detroit, Michigan. When the decision was issued; When the dispute started; Length of the strike.