Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be sentenced in June 2016 for the murder of model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013 in his Pretoria home. The 29-year old is best known as the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-prosthetic legs he used to race.
UBS AG has agreed to pay $69.8 million to NCUA in settling a lawsuit centering selling of faulty residential mortgage based securities. Prior to that, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley and other accused financial institutions have also settled respective lawsuits with NCUA. However, all the settlements have taken place through realization of incurred losses from the faulty RMBS products.
Hollywood is home to the most famous celebrities in the world. With the fame, glitz and glamour these celebrities enjoy, there come controversies, scandals and legal battles. As the year 2015 is coming to an end, The Hollywood Reporter brings back the controversial legal disputes of 2015.
Superior Court Judge Charles Powers Jr. allowed a defamation and malpractice case against Porzio Bromberg & Newman and lawyer Warren Martin Jr. to push through. The latter was allegedly drunk when he sent an accusatory e-mail blaming a former client of extortion.
A teenager who raped and killed his Massachusetts high school teacher in 2013 has been convicted and is facing a January 2016 sentencing. He faces life imprisonment with possible parole in 15 to 25 years.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron orders the review of a new law that enables greater legal protection from prosecution for “shoot-to-kill” police officers. The move comes after the death of a 28-year old man during an attempt to free two convicts from a prison van in Wood Green.
U.S. District Judge William Conley has granted a temporary restraining order preventing Wisconsin from enforcing a new and restrictive abortion law, CNN reported. Signed by the state's governor Scott Walker on Friday, bans doctors from performing abortion if they do no not have admitting privileges to hospitals within 30 minutes of their practice.
The Supreme Court sidestepped a sweeping decision on the use of race-conscious school admission policies, ruling Monday on the criteria at the University of Texas and whether it violates the equal protection rights of some white applicants.
