Apple and six other companies won a court order to block potentially thousands of employees,from proceeding in a group lawsuit that their incomes were held down by the companies’ agreements not to recruit one another’s workers.

  Senators Agree On Path To Legal Status For Illegal Immigrants Eight senators who have spent weeks trying to write a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration laws have privately agreed on the most contentious part of the...

  Banks Admit To More Wrongful Foreclosure Problems The nation’s biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen other borrowers who were current on...

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh lowered the damages awarded to Apple Inc. by $450.5 million, saying jurors had not properly followed her instruction in calculating some of the damages.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected Apple Inc.’s request that the full court immediately hear the company’s request for a permanent injunction against the sale of several Samsung Electronics Co. phones, Reuters reports. A lower court...

  US Looking At Action Against China Cyberattacks The Obama administration is considering more assertive action against Beijing to combat a persistent cyber-espionage campaign it believes Chinese hackers are waging against U.S. companies and government agencies. As The...

  NRA To Testify At Senate Gun Control Hearing  National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre and Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who survived a shot to the head two years ago during...

  Lawmakers To Unveil New Assault Weapons Ban Democratic lawmakers plan to formally reintroduce a bill Thursday that would ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, the most ambitious — and politically risky — element of proposals unveiled...

Apple will agree to withdraw without prejudice its request to include the Galaxy S III Mini in this case given Samsung's representation that it is not making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing that product into...

A look back at some of the most intriguing legal stories of 2012.