The government released the fine print of its landmark $25 billion mortgage settlement, and promised to closely police the banks' pledges to bring widespread housing relief, even while letting them dodge admission of wrongdoing.
Yahoo, the No. 2 search engine that just hired a new CEO, could threw a wrench into Facebook’s proposed $5 billion initial public offering by suing for patent infringement.
The U.S. Department of Justice Monday objected Texas' strict new voter ID law.
Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.
McDonald's came under heavy fire in February when Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution exposed the company's use of boneless lean beef trimmings, aka pink slime in their chicken nuggets. Now recent reports suggest that pink slime may have made its way 70 percent of U.S. supermarkets.
Nicollete Sheridan claims producer and creator of the show Desperate Housewives, Marc Cherry, gave her a wallop to the head, Cherry testified yesterday it was part of a demonstration for a scene.
A federal appeals court has blocked parts of an Alabama immigration law that restrict business transactions with undocumented immigrants, further diluting a law that was considered the toughest in the country.
Proview Technology, which is battling Apple over the iPad trademark in China, has asked Chinese distributors to stop selling the popular tablet PC after the U.S. technology giant launched the latest version of its iPad.
JWoww--the curvy cast member of the Jersey Shore and recent Maxim cover model--is being sued for more than $150,000 because she never warned her landlord that she planned to allow the show be filmed inside her home according to a TMZ report. The lawsuit says that JWoww leased a residence in Long Island in 2008 from someone named Stuart Levine. Once she moved in, JWoww allowed 495 Productions to shoot a few scenes for the first season of Jersey Shore.
The U.S. Justice Department is threatening to sue Apple and five major U.S. publishers for allegedly fixing the price of e-books, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
A Minnesota school district that came to crystallize a national debate about anti-gay bullying has agreed to institute broad new protections for students.
The Paula Deen lawsuit against Deen and her brother Buddy Hiers has alleged racism, sexual harassment and emotional distress and now Deen has fired back.
Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against Apple Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad2 infringed on three of its patents.
The Paula Deen lawsuit is filled with a lot of explosive charges against Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers, but plaintiff, Lisa Jackson, has her own past problems.
While concession stand snacks do seem a little steep at movie theaters, most people either skip the line or suck it up and empty out their wallet on popcorn and a soda. One Michigan man decided to take a more extreme route and file a class action suit against his local AMC movie theater.
Food Network chef and Southern comfort celebrity Paula Deen has been slapped with a lawsuit detailing shocking allegations including the use of a racial slur against President Barack Obama, pornographic content shared at work and segregation of the restaurant's bathrooms.
Paula Deen's kitchen just got a few degrees hotter. The Food Network chef and Southern comforter extraordinaire got slapped with a lawsuit by a former employee of a restaurant co-owned by Deen who claims that the celebrity cook condoned an atmosphere of sexual harassment and racism, reported The L.A. Times.
According to a report from CBS Sports' Patrick Kirwan players injured by the Saints during Gregg Williams tenure are considering a legal action.
A Brooklyn mother of two who had her hands and feet amputated as a result of a hospital's negligence has won a $17.9 million settlement from the hospital and the city. 35-year-old Tabitha Mullings will receive $9.4 million from Brooklyn Hospital Center and $8.5 million from the city after a three-year legal battle, according to the NY Daily News.
As of Sunday, seven companies have pulled their advertisements from Limbaugh's radio show after the conservative commentator called a Georgetown law student a prostitute and insisted she post online sex videos if she wanted free contraceptive coverage.
Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan, are suing the utility's executives for a record 5.5 trillion yen ($67.4 billion) in compensation, lawyers said.
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Friday were: TranS1, Cray Inc, InfoSpace, TESSCO Technologies, GRAVITY Co and Verenium Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: Leap Wireless International, DISH Network Corp, HomeAway, Yandex N.V, Fortinet and Rambus.
