A monitor looking at Apple’s anti-monopoly policies can resume his work but must stick to strict limits spelled out by the judge who appointed him, an appeal court panel has said.

A US appeals court has upheld a judge’s approval of a multi-billion-dollar settlement between BP and lawyers for Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim the company’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost them money.

A US judge rejected BP’s argument that a multibillion-dollar settlement over the company’s massive 2010 Gulf oil spill should not compensate businesses if they cannot directly trace their losses to the spill.

A US federal appeals court has revived BP’s claims that a judge’s interpretation of a settlement over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could force the company to pay billions of dollars for bogus or inflated claims by businesses.

SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund firm founded by Steven Cohen, owes Elan shareholders at least $685.6m (€533.3m) as a result of alleged insider trades in the drugmaker’s stock, investors said in a lawsuit.

Argentina squared off with a group of US hedge funds in a court case that has the potential to unravel its deals over the past decade to emerge from a $100bn (€76bn) pile of bad national debt.

A US appeal court has blocked a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay youngsters straight.

California’s ban on same-sex marriage has been declared to be unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.

The very technology that the killer known as the Unabomber railed against during his murderous spree was used to help some of his victims.

A US federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by the late Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyers to reconsider its ruling that gave her none of the fortune from her late billionaire husband.

The US Supreme Court is to rule in a landmark case on whether free speech takes precedence over helping parents keep violent material away from children.

A US appeal court upheld the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in an American court over the September 11 attacks.

The Obama administration is trying to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by British prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo Bay.

A US appeals court today threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS for the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show that ended with Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction”.

An old leg injury has surfaced as a key element in an appeal that seeks to keep a condemned Texas inmate from being executed this evening.

The US Supreme Court said today it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, setting up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court.

The US Supreme Court steered clear of a major ruling on abortion today, instead giving the northeastern state of New Hampshire a chance to save its parental notification law.

Jose Padilla, the alleged al-Qaida operative held as an “enemy combatant” for more than three years, was en route to Miami tonight to face charges that he was part of a US terror cell that recruited fighters and raised money for global Islamic holy war.

A CONVICTED killer from North Carolina is today set to become the 1,000th person executed in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, barring an unlikely intervention from the federal courts or the state governor.

Cuban Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon has called on the US government to release five Cuban men serving long prison terms on espionage conspiracy charges after a US federal appeals court threw out their convictions and sentences.

The US Supreme Court today agreed to consider whether a church in New Mexico can continue using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services.

A US federal appeals court raised a flicker of hope for the parents of brain dead Terri Schiavo, but snuffed it out by firmly declining to intervene in the gruelling legal battle.

Terri Schiavo’s parents made a desperate appeal to the US Supreme Court early today, asking justices to order resumption of nourishment for their severely brain-damaged daughter.

FOR the second time in less than a day, a federal appeals court yesterday rejected a bid by Terri Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube re-inserted.

A New York court revived part of a class-action lawsuit blaming fast-food chain McDonald’s for making people fat, reinstating claims relating to deceptive advertising.

RELATIVES of 155 skiers and snowboarders killed in an Austrian cable car fire in November 2000 will press on with civil lawsuits seeking damages despite a setback in a US court, a lawyer representing the families said.

TWO US federal judges yesterday barred parties from posting challengers at polling places throughout Ohio, saying poll workers, not outsiders, should determine voter eligibility.

US FEDERAL courts dealt a double blow to the Bush administration’s strategy in the war on terror yesterday, ruling that the US military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers or the American courts by detaining them indefinitely.

A former Northern Ireland official snared in an underage sex sting has been given an extra 20 months in jail after judges ruled his original sentence was too lenient.

A US federal appeals court has refused to let an Atlanta salvage company sell artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic.

Ending months of speculation over whether he would drop the case, the new district attorney in Oklahoma City said he will prosecute bombing conspirator Terry Nichols on state murder charges that could bring the death penalty.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has abandoned all legal efforts to delay his execution and is prepared to die on Monday, for the worst terrorist attack on US soil.

The judge in the Oklahoma City bombing case last night refused to delay the execution of convicted killer Timothy McVeigh, saying newly-released documents do not change the fact that he is guilty.

A US murderer who claims his mental illness is grounds to spare his life came within minutes of being executed.