Legal

New York -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says a New York college professor should not have made him the focus of a student assignment on privacy.

One of the things you loathe is sitting down and sorting out your taxes. You are happier having someone tell you ‘this is the amount of tax you will have to pay for this year’ and paying it out, rather than sitting down and going through the painful process of calculating the tax due.

Los Angeles, April 29: 42-year-old Danny Pang, the founder and ex-chief executive of PEM Group, was detained by the FBI in California on Tuesday.

Boston, April 21: Posting an online classified advertisement turned out to be a death knoll for murdered masseuse Julissa Brisman.

Irvine, Calif. -- A California lawsuit alleges the Private Equity Management Group run by Danny Pang earns portions of its money through a Ponzi scheme.

New York -- Unsealed court records in New York revealed hedge fund executive Barrett Wissman has pleaded guilty to felony fraud involving the state's pension fund.

OTTAWA, April 10 -- The government of Canada is being sued by Dow Agrosciences LLC over the province of Quebec's ban on residential pesticides.

New York, April 9: A Rhode Island jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $388 million in damages for a long-running patent infringement case filed by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc Inc.

San Diego, April 8: The use of snippets and headlines in Google News is legitimate under copyright law, Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG; LSE: GGEA), insisted while delivering the closing keynote at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Association of America in San Diego.

New Delhi, April 6 -- At a time when channels are cutting costs due to the economic slump, Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has launched two channels in Asia, including an India-centric lifestyle channel.