Colombia State Council rejects suit to annul Uribe election
Colombia’s State Council rejected a lawsuit that would have kept ex-President Alvaro Uribe...
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Lawsuit against Shakira postponed
Shakira managed to postpone her latest court hearing claiming she and her lawyers had not been told about it. According to local media, the hearing between the Colombian pop sensation and two former employees was supposed to...
Colombia to pay former senate president $440K over kidnapping
Colombia’s former senate president won a lawsuit against the State and is tentatively set to receive close to $440 thousand as compensation for two years he was held hostage by rebel group ELN. According to local media,...
Shakira confirms ex-fiance demands compensation
Shakira’s lawyer confirmed on Tuesday that her ex-fiance Antonio De la Rua filed a lawsuit seeking to freeze “substantial assets” in the singer’s bank accounts as compensation. In a new development in the...
Reports on Pablo Escobar ‘damage his good name’
The family of Pablo Escobar sued Colombian television network Caracol and newspaper El Espectador because a hit TV series based on the late drug lord’s life and articles published about him “damaged Escobar’s...
Paulina Rubio taken to court over missing concert in Colombia
A Miami court will rule Monday in the lawsuit against Mexican pop star Paulina Rubio, who failed to attend a concert in Colombia in 2010, local media reported. Miami-based record company CMG Entertainment sued Rubio in 2010 for...
Acquitted navy admiral sues government for $4M
An acquitted navy admiral is suing the government for $4.18 million for being “unjustly” accused of drug trafficking. According to the newspaper El Espectador, Admiral Gabriel Arango Bacci filed a lawsuit before the...
4,000 Colombian victims’ families sue Chiquita
Chiquita Brands International is facing a mass lawsuit filed on behalf of the family members of over 4,000 victims of paramilitaries, alleging that the banana corporation is liable due to payments it made to the FARC and the...
Nueva EPS director gets 5 days in jail for contempt of court
A Colombian judge has ordered the five day imprisonment of health insurance company Nueva EPS’ scientific director, Tayla Tamer, for disobeying court orders to perform a surgical intervention on an elderly woman, newspaper...
Colombian state loses $551M through lawsuits in 2010
A report released by the General Accounting Office revealed that the state paid out COP1.1 trillion ($551 million) in 2010 as a result of court rulings against it, El Espectador reported Thursday. The state bodies that lost the...
IAHCR files case against Colombia
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) had filed a case against Colombia before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for failing to prosecute a journalist’s attackers. Colombian journalist Luis Gonzalo...
Chiquita faces lawsuit over alleged FARC funding
Chiquita Brands International faces a lawsuit from the family of an American geologist murdered by the FARC in Colombia, who accuse the banana giant of supporting the country’s largest guerrilla group, Bloomberg reported...
