Court bars MCI from making payments
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A federal court Wednesday barred No. 2 US long-distance carrier MCI Inc. from making further payments to cover more than $25 million in unauthorized expenses related to bankruptcy of predecessor WorldCom.
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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked an order that the Internal Revenue Service be given the names of people who acquired materials from a Web site on how to defeat the tax laws.
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A federal court won't consider Qualcomm's request for a stay of a trade commission order that bans the importation of its chips into the U.S.
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In a fresh blow to Europe&#39;s antitrust enforcers, a top appeals tribunal said regulators wrongly blocked MCI WorldCom&#39;s aborted bid to buy Sprint Corp in 2000.
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MCLEAN, VA. -- MCI lost $3.4 billion in the third quarter, due to a previously announced asset writedown of $3.5 billion, but its core operating results were better than expected.
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An appeals court denied Vonageâs challenge of an F.C.C. rule requiring providers to pay into the Universal Service Fund.
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The Supreme Court has denied a challenge to the federal Do Not Call List. Telemarketing companies had filed an appeal, saying the registry violated First Amendment rights because some groups were exempt from the rules.
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International Business Machines Corp., taken to court by workers over changes it made to its traditional pension plan, has decided to stop offering any such plan to new employees.
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MCI Inc. MCIP.O, the No. 2 U.S.  long-distance company, said on Monday it would record noncash  impairment charges of about $3.5 billion in the third quarter,  mostly for property, plant and equipment.
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MCI Inc. reported yesterday that it will take a $3.5 billion non-cash charge in the third quarter to reflect the severe downturn in its consumer long-distance telephone business.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by commercial telemarketers opposed to the popular program, in which consumers can put their names on a list if they do not want to be called.
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A U.S. court on Thursday barred  EchoStar Communications Corp. from retransmitting distant TV  stations, adding weight to a recent settlement between the  satellite television provider and broadcast networks.
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Fremont Investment &amp; Loan yesterday agreed to postpone foreclosure proceedings against 2,200 Massachusetts homeowners after state officials determined the lender gave subprime mortgages to borrowers who could not afford the loan payments.
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BRUSSELS  - U.S. giant WorldCom, now called MCI Inc., won a moral victory Tuesday when a European court ruled that European Union antitrust regulators should not have issued an order blocking its aborted &#36;127-billion-US bid in 2000 for telecom rival Sprint Corp.
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The trade group for university financial aid officers said yesterday that it would no longer allow student loan companies to court its members with gifts or sponsor its conferences, responding to a spate of revelations of conflicts of interest in the $85  billion-a-year industry.
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Visa, MasterCard and eight banks have been sued by American Express for âanti-competitive practicesâ that led to damages as around 20,000 US banks were not able to use AE credit card products.
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The Supreme Court handed a victory  to Medtronic Inc  on Wednesday, ruling that patients  cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over  harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators.