New York subway passengers, who were stranded for seven hours on the A train when the city was hit by a snowstorm on Dec. 26, are planning to sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
A federal court in Alabama will centralize at least 1,200 civil lawsuits against Pfizer Inc over its smoking-cessation drug Chantix, which plaintiffs say can lead to suicide.
Nursing students in Kansas are expelled for posting insensitive photograph on Facebook
A shareholder in Devry Inc. has sued 14 of the for-profit education company's officers and directors for their failure to properly oversee student recruitment and financial aid policy
Prior to Apple's launch of iPhone 4 on June 7, HTC had launched its Android-based Evo 4G phone on June 4 and now a report prior to Apple's launch of iPad 2 says that HTC is working on tablet to rival iPad.
The federal judge in the Washington District of Columbia has granted preliminary approval to a long-running and highly contentious $3.4 billion Cobell Settlement - a move that could end the class action litigation over the mismanagement of trust fund assets for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been sued by The New York Times (NYT) for routinely violating Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) that requires government agencies to provide information to the press and the public.
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, has accused Bank of America (BofA) and its lending unit, Countrywide Financial, of misrepresenting the risk associated with mortgage-backed securities it bought from them beginning 2005, and is suing them for more than $700 million.
Sony Corp. has filed a patent suit against LG Electronics, seeking to stop its import of mobile phones to the US. It is the latest in a series of patent complaints that have plagued the technology industry.
Dey Pharma, a subsidiary of Mylan Inc., has agreed to pay $280 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it had violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a scheme to report false and inflated prices for its products, knowing that federal health care programs relied on those reported prices to set payment rates.
In an interview to the Daily Mail, Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon, insisted that she was not responsible for the break-up of 'The Beatles' in 1970.
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen added details to the patent infringement lawsuit filed against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, AOL, Yahoo!, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples in August.
Barnes & Noble Inc lost its bid to dismiss Spring Design Inc's lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bookseller of illegally copying a screen design for the popular Nook electronic book reader.
Patent wars punctuated the technology landscape in 2010. Lawsuits were filed with myriad motivations, some seeking permanent injunction, some monetary compensation and some bullying others to accept licensing agreements.
Barnes & Noble Inc failed to win dismissal of Spring Design Inc's lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bookseller of illegally copying its dual-display design for its Nook electronic book reader.
Joe Miller, the Republican nominee for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, says he will not oppose state certification for the November election because he wants his state to be represented in Washington. Nonetheless, he is keeping a federal suit alive.
Key patent lawsuits that punctuated the smartphone industry in 2010.
iWorks advertises itself as an Internet marketing firm. The Federal Trade Commission calls it an Internet scamming operation and is taking the company, and its 51 shell companies, to court to shut it down.
Baldwin sues Costner for misleading in a business deal based on oil-spill cleaning technology
Toyota Motors will be paying $10 million to settle a lawsuit filed by relatives of four people who were killed in an August 2009 Lexus ES 350 crash in California.
Global hospitality company, Hilton Worldwide, announced the finalization of an agreement with Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide to settle a lawsuit involving the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.
Hoping for some monetary damages, Hopewell Culture & Design have sued Apple and Android makers for the infringement of double-click patent.
