Lawyers

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  Airline Sues Disruptive Passenger for Damages After Flight Forced to Divert Hundreds of Miles Off Course

  The airline fined a disruptive passenger, hoping it curbs the growing number of in-air disturbances.

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  Cop Arrested, Accused of 'Tormenting' Coworker for Her Crippling Fear of Bananas

  An Irish cop was arrested after he was accused of harassing a female coworker over her crippling fear of bananas.

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  Career Criminal with 59 Convictions Insists He's Done Breaking the Law After Latest Punishment: 'This Time I Have Really Learned My Lesson'

  In his latest court appearance, Michael O'Driscoll, a 26-year-old man with a staggering 59 previous theft convictions, told a judge that he has changed this time.

• ‘Surinder Singh Route’ Residency Scam in UK Exposed

  Fraudsters are making millions of pounds in helping non-EU family members of UK citizens to create fake histories and bypass immigration restrictions.

• New US inversion rules threaten Pfizer-Allergan merge deal

  The deal between Pfizer and Allergan, two of the prominent drugmakers, is threatened by the new US inversion rules done by the US Treasury Department.

• UK government might face legal challenges over bereavement claims; Breach on human rights seen by Justices

  The UK government may face legal wraps as one of UK's court allowed the claim of an unmarried widow of her bereavement benefits. This decision will cause the government an additional hundred million pounds of budget.

• Ireland to eliminate forced marriage; Proposed new law would fight against 'pernicious evil' in Irish society

  The Republic of Ireland is set to introduce a new law which criminalizes forced marriage. It will come as part of a new government strategy to deal with sexual, domestic and gender-based violence.

• Austria's highest court to decide whether to allow class action vs Facebook

  Austrian student Max Schrems's attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook (FB.O) over its privacy policies will head to Austria's Supreme Court to determine whether such collective legal action is allowed, his group said on Monday.

• Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside - investigator

  The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analyzing the flight recorders said on Monday.

• France, Germany raise concerns over EU migrant redistribution plan

  France and Germany raised concerns on Monday over a European Commission plan to redistribute migrants reaching Italy and Greece, saying it must take better account of efforts they have already taken to help asylum-seekers.

• Irish voters back gay marriage in 'social revolution'

  The people of Ireland backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a traditionally Catholic country that only decriminalized homosexuality two decades ago.

• Irish vote on gay marriage in landmark referendum

  The Irish voted on Friday on whether to allow gay marriage, just two decades after Ireland became the last country in Western Europe to decriminalize homosexuality.

• EU to publish details of probe into Amazon's Luxembourg tax deal

  European Union antitrust regulators will publish details on Friday of their investigation into online retailer Amazon's tax-minimising arrangements with Luxembourg.

• Vote for same sex marriage would be 'grave injustice': Irish church

  Ireland's church said it would be "a grave injustice" if gay and lesbian couples were granted equality in marriage as it began an uphill battle to persuade voters to reject same sex marriage in a referendum next year.

• French parliament votes for recognition of Palestinian state

  French lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to recognize Palestine, a symbolic move that will not immediately affect France's diplomatic stance but demonstrates growing European impatience with a stalled peace process.

• Eyeing deadline, France to back Palestinian state if peace talks fail

  France warned on Friday it would recognize a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a U.N.-backed resolution.

• Execs in Asian luxury hotels fall prey to cyber espionage: study

  Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated industrial espionage campaign that targets business executives in luxury hotels across Asia once they sign on to computers using in-room wireless connections they consider private and secure.

• EU questions Ireland's tax deal with Apple

  European Union antitrust regulators have asked Ireland to provide details of its tax arrangements with Apple (AAPL.O) in 1990 and 2007, warning that they could amount to illegal state aid which may be recovered from the U.S. company.

• Nationalists push for Irish unity vote after 'inspiring' Scottish referendum

  Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said Scotland's "inspiring" referendum on independence would accelerate a vote to unite Ireland, a prospect quickly dismissed by Unionists who share power in Northern Ireland.

• Report says Europe tax reliefs can be key to pressure Russia off Ukraine

  An expert told Bloomberg that the European countries Russian businesses has been dependent on moving their assets into are key to forcing Russia to discontinue its plans on Ukraine.