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added 2007 Sat Jun 2 2:34:03 by populist
Alas, the man who is billed as 9/11's hero, America's sheriff, the man who would be President, is being faced today with thousands of people who worked selflessly at Ground Zero and have become ill, and are now suing the city for health damages.
added 2007 Mon May 28 20:26:01 by populist
After years of high-stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors in an action seen as an important precedent for the booming private security industry.
added 2007 Sun May 13 22:40:27 by Wil
A suit was filed on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who claims she suffered psychological distress when a teacher showed in class the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mountain." The girl and her grandparents are seeking more than $400,000 in damages under the suit filed Friday against the Chicago Board of Education and others.
added 2007 Fri May 11 20:44:40 by universal12
ABINGDON, Virginia: The company that makes the painkiller OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, has agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments to resolve the criminal charge of "misbranding" its product, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case.
added 2007 Mon May 7 12:34:58 by zaph22
YouTube, SueTube, could legal battles be the undoing of the world's most popular video sharing site? While the legal judgments are yet to emerge to give us all an indication of who'll win the war of the video sharing Web, it'll likely be years before anyone can truly claim to know 'how the video Web was won'.
added 2007 Fri May 4 9:36:01 by Neophile
On Friday, YouTube will begin revenue sharing with top users including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary using the same system they've used for TV networks. They'll also be sharing revenue with thousands of medium-sized content content creators like small production houses and universities.
added 2007 Wed May 2 21:00:46 by Karina
Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered a media storm that triggered a swift upending of his career, is not going away quietly even if the imbroglio has all but disappeared from the national conversation in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.
added 2007 Thu Apr 26 14:15:23 by Kamyla
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added 2007 Sat Apr 21 1:50:44 by populist
Fort Worth, Texas-based Vertical Computer Systems said Friday that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft. Vertical filed its suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Texas, claiming Microsoft's .Net technology infringes on its patent.

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added 2007 Wed Apr 4 21:11:52 by populist
Microsoft has come under attack for the way it advertises the Vista operating system.
added 2007 Tue Mar 27 18:38:05 by jovial
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could face charges of war crimes after a lawsuit was filed against him in Germany. Now Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office has to decide whether it will investigate.
added 2007 Sat Mar 24 8:23:53 by Fedquip
Every now and then, you come across a bit of entertainment news that makes you go, "Huh?" That was my reaction last week when I read that Carol Burnett is suing Fox TV's Family Guy
added 2007 Thu Mar 22 8:25:18 by berkeley
The leader of the Justice Department team that prosecuted a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies said yesterday that Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government's racketeering case.
added 2007 Mon Mar 19 17:39:49 by Neophile
The continuing legal battle between publisher Take-Two and Jack Thompson became more aggressive over the weekend as the controversial Miami attorney threatened to "destroy" the publisher after it filed a pre-emptive lawsuit.
added 2007 Tue Mar 13 15:43:48 by Karina
Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google Inc. and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of its copyrighted entertainment.
added 2007 Sun Mar 11 18:49:54 by moemebe
A Siloam Springs woman has sued a motel, claiming that her bed was infested with bugs and that she now suffers recurring nightmares from the experience. Rose M. Pagley-Brown said that she noticed in December that she had red bumps on her body after staying at the Stone Inn in Siloam Springs, while she was being treated for cancer.
added 2007 Fri Mar 9 17:39:15 by SarrahA
Kate Winslet has won undisclosed libel damages from a magazine that accused her of using a diet doctor.
added 2007 Tue Feb 13 22:40:03 by bhartzer
Miss Brazil for 2002, who recently was the subject of an international missing person hunt, has been awarded the equivalent of thousands of dollars in a lawsuit she filed against pageant organizers.
added 2007 Fri Feb 9 7:16:40 by Aidenag
One of Hampton Roads' highest-profile Christians stands accused of a not-so-Christian act. A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Pat Robertson says the televangelist threatened his life and that of his family at a legal proceeding Wednesday in the Norfolk federal courthouse.
added 2007 Thu Feb 8 8:02:03 by Neophile
Texas made good on its threat to sue Sprint Nextel Corp., asserting the No. 3 mobile-phone carrier's imposition of a new fee violates the state's deceptive trade practices law and a 2004 industry settlement with state attorneys general around the country.
added 2007 Fri Feb 2 3:55:54 by jeremytoday
A woman has filed a lawsuit against Duane "Dog" Chapman, alleging the TV bounty hunter and his crew threw her down a flight of stairs and broke her back while apprehending her boyfriend.
added 2007 Wed Jan 31 16:30:35 by Karina
A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
added 2007 Sat Jan 27 5:03:50 by PinkyPie
A local firefighters union has filed a class-action grievance against Palm Beach County for switching the laundry soap it provides at station houses.
added 2007 Fri Jan 26 11:41:28 by charbarred
Gravel-voiced singer/songwriter Tom Waits has settled his lawsuit against German carmaker Adam Opel AG and its advertising agency McCann for using a sound-alike in a series of TV commercials
added 2007 Sat Jan 20 5:58:21 by worker
COYOTE V. ACME PRODUCTS CORP. In The United States District Court, Southwestern District, Tempe, Arizona Case No. B19293 February 29, 1992 Judge Homer Simpson, Presiding
added 2007 Thu Jan 18 20:02:50 by Wil
The UCLA student tasered when he refused to show his identification to campus police today filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his civil rights were violated and that police acted in a brutal fashion. He was tasered several times, including while he was handcuffed.
added 2007 Fri Jan 12 16:42:02 by bhartzer
There are a few avenues that Apple can pursue in defending itself against Cisco's lawsuit.
added 2006 Mon Aug 28 2:07:56 by zepequeno
This year's "World Series of Poker" winner Jamie Gold's $12 million prize has been placed on hold by a Las Vegas judge after a lawsuit was filed against him.TV exec, Crispin Leyser, filed suit against him over an alleged handshake deal between the two to split any earnings Gold would make at the popular poker event.
added 2006 Sat Aug 26 21:15:18 by Adam
If you’re not familiar with the underlying situation here, get ready for a big head ache. The story starts about four months ago when Creative filed suit against Apple for violating their patent protecting hierarchical menu system for portable media players...
added 2006 Tue Aug 22 8:04:01 by Dygital
Timeline, of Seattle, said Monday it terminated a limited license agreement forged with Microsoft in 1999 after the software giant allegedly breached its terms. Timeline filed a motion in U.S. federal district court in Seattle, asking to add Microsoft as a defendant in a case against ProClarity, a maker of add-on reporting and data visualization...