... that one federal judge called efforts to avoid trial in a five-year-old lawsuit involving the online posting of a sex tape, the report said. Lastonia Leviston sued Jackson in 2010 in a New York state ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Liquidators are seeking permission from a federal bankruptcy judge to distribute another US$1.89 billion to unsecured creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the giant investment bank blamed for t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... d in some federal benefits being paid in May 2014 rather than in June of that year. Adjusting for these transactions, the surplus in June 2014 would have been US$36 billion, it said. With the adjustm ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... ending in federal court. The department’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed on June 3 the complaint filed in May by more than 60 Asian-American groups. “We are very disappointed, but we won’t stop the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Amazon.com Inc. must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker, a US federal appeals court ruled. The suit says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... former US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke dubbed the “global savings glut” is a vivid description of the excessive build-up of foreign reserves by emerging economies since the turn of the centur ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
BP Plc said on Thursday that it will pay up to US$18.7 billion to settle US federal and state claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Under a deal with the US Department of Justice and five sta ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... se of the Federal Reserve, anticipated changes in monetary policy. These rapid changes have rattled global financial markets and spooked investors, reducing their appetite for risk – a cautious attitu ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... by the US Federal Reserve helped the market recover from a crash. But the fundamental reason for further monetary easing is still the same – a weak economy with the threat of deflation. The sharp and ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... under the federal Endangered Species Act after US wildlife officials said climate changes threatened their survival in the first such listing of its kind. USGS ecologists concluded that polar bears wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
The prospect that the US Federal Reserve will start exiting zero policy rates later this year has fueled a growing fear of renewed volatility in emerging economies’ currency, bond and stock markets. T ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... European federalism among elites, and this culminated in the Maastricht Treaty and the eventual replacement of the EEC by the European Union. This was the time when the EU, or “the United States of E ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
... former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who lowered rates after market meltdowns in what became known as the “Greenspan put”, Bloomberg reported. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 7.4 perce ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
The US Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate in the zero to 0.25 percent range at its recent policy meeting. Immediately, Fed officials tangled on the timing of a highly anticipated liftoff. Fif ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
The US dollar has gained strength after US housing sales increased 2.2 percent in May from April, although durable goods orders dipped for the second straight month. The majority of Federal Reserve of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
... ity, as a federal jury sentenced Dzhokhar to death in May. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
... asier for federal agencies to increase surveillance and share information about individuals. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney denounced the cyber attacks, telling reporters that there were many ot ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
A US appeals court said in a 2-1 decision that the federal government's top law enforcers can be sued by former inmates who claim their civil rights were violated while jailed after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
US interest rates will remain near zero for now but the Federal Reserve is leaning toward liftoff later this year amid signs economic activity is picking up. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen is warn ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
... at the US Federal Reserve exceeded its authority in the insurer's 2008 bailout. While Judge Thomas Wheeler of the Federal Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., sided with Greenberg on a key legal claim ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
