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Aerospace employee pleads guilty to false testing reports An employee of a Florida aerospace firm pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to falsifying testing results on components used in Peacekeeper nuclear missiles. Russell B. Cohen, 48, of Lighthouse Point, Fla., ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled little interest in cracking down on punitive damages, focusing on procedural questions in arguments over a $79.5 million award in a smoker’s lawsuit against Altria Group’s Philip Morris. Several justices questioned whether Philip Morris’ proposed ...

A woman who flashed her breasts at a motorcycle gathering has no case against the magazine that memorialized the occasion with a photo, a federal judge has ruled. Tonya Barnhart sued Paisano Publications, publisher of Easyriders magazine, over a picture ...

A trial over whether Merck & Co.’s Vioxx painkiller caused a Utah man’s heart attack began this week with the plaintiff’s expert witness testifying Merck distorted Vioxx’s health risks and the defense blaming the attack on the man’s coronary artery ...

A battle between two law firms threatens to delay a group of investor lawsuits seeking tens of billions of dollars from Merck & Co. over losses suffered following the 2004 withdrawal from the market of the drug Vioxx. A law ...

MySpace founder says News Corp. censors Web site MySpace.com founder Brad Greenspan accused News Corp., which bought the social networking Web site last year, of deleting references to his competing startup. Since about Oct. 15, MySpace has made it impossible ...

President George W. Bush began a five-day campaign blitz in 10 states this week, saying Republicans must retain control of Congress elections to confirm “good judges,” protect tax cuts and promote trade. Bush told an audience of supporters in Billings, ...

A Manhattan lawyer pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing $1.6 million from his clients, using the money to buy a Lexus, Louis Vuitton luxury items and fund regular trips to his native Barbados. Campbell Holder, 58, who handled wills and estates, ...

Comverse Technology’s former general counsel William Sorin pleaded guilty to taking part in a stock-option backdating scheme that led to charges against the company’s fugitive chief executive officer, Jacob Alexander. At a hearing Thursday before U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ...

In a battle between two stem cell research companies, Neuralstem accuses StemCells of misusing patents in an effort to monopolize the use of stem-cell technology in research on damage to the nervous system. Neuralstem, in papers filed Monday in U.S. ...

Eli Lilly sues Mayne to block generic form of cancer drug Eli Lilly & Co. sued Mayne Pharma, seeking to block U.S. sales of a generic version of the cancer drug Gemzar. Mayne would infringe two patents, one for the ...