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Thomson Corp., owner of Westlaw legal research, must defend an antitrust lawsuit claiming the company illegally required aspiring lawyers to enroll in a second program as a condition of taking the state bar-exam preparation course. A test taker claimed in ...

I. Lewis Libby, former vice presidential chief of staff, enters the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse on May 16 in Washington, D.C. Libby’s lawyers said they planned to call Vice President Dick Cheney as a witness in the trial that ...

The Vatican can be sued over claims that U.S. leaders of the Roman Catholic Church failed to warn parishioners about pedophile priests, a federal judge in Louisville, Ky., ruled. In the second decision of its kind, Chief U.S. District Court ...

Duke University’s applications for admission declined 4.6 percent from a record last year following rape charges against members of the school’s lacrosse team. Duke received 18,495 applications for the 1,665 places that will be available in the coming academic year, ...

Chicago law firm opens office in Hong Kong Kirkland & Ellis, the 11th-largest U.S. law firm, opened an office in Hong Kong, its first in Asia, to tap the China market. The office is led by private-equity partner David Patrick ...

Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest theme-park operator, settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who died from injuries she suffered on the Indiana Jones roller-coaster in its Disneyland theme-park. Terms of the Dec. 29 ...

Qualcomm, the world’s second-biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, is challenging Broadcom Corp.’s strength in set-top boxes in the first federal trial in the companies’ two-year-old patent dispute. San Diego jurors on Tuesday began hearing Qualcomm’s claim that Broadcom infringed two ...

Stephen A. Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, speaks at a news conference in September at the Wynn Macau in Macau, China. Wynn sued Lloyd’s of London for papers appraising a Picasso painting he punctured with his ...

State Farm claims specialist Eddie Grey, left, helps policy holder Caroline Scott in her recovery effort from Hurricane Katrina on Sept. 10, 2005, in a Mobile Catastrophe Facility in Biloxi, Miss. The first jury trial over State Farm coverage claims ...

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., ending its first jury trial over Hurricane Katrina damage, said it might resolve hundreds of lawsuits from Mississippi homeowners whose claims were denied. “We continue to talk and to search for ways to bring ...

A former Latham & Watkins partner who prosecutors say failed to file New York tax returns for at least 25 years will serve 45 days in jail and pay $1.5 million. Francis K. Decker Jr., 70, pleaded guilty in state ...