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According to a report in the New York Times, Mets ownership family the Wilpons' involvement with Bernie Madoff's billion-dollar Ponzi Scheme was closer than previously thought.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) against hacker 'Geohot' who circumvented PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware security measures to run unapproved code on the game console.

Florida-based asbestos litigation law firm Kelley & Ferraro LLP has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeking reprieve from an Ohio appeals court's ruling that the law firm must be dissolved as part of an agreement with the firm's deceased partner and co-founder Michael Kelley.

A senior human resources manager at Toshiba Corp has filed a $100 million lawsuit accusing a U.S. unit of the Japanese technology company of gender bias against women in pay and promotions.

Florida Governor Rick Scott said on Monday that a federal judge's ruling has confirmed many assumptions about the illegality of last year's landmark healthcare law.

Sued over beef and meat, Taco Bell has launched a damage control campaign on social media platforms like Twitter, Youtube and Facebook.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay the U.S. government $2 million to settle charges that it acted with others in knowingly violating the False Claims Act by rigging a contract at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

A federal judge in California has allowed a committee of Hewlett-Packard's directors to begin a probe into the circumstances culminating in Mark Hurd's departure from the company.

U.S. generic drug maker Mylan Inc has settled two U.S. patent disputes with global pharma giant Pfizer Inc, which will enable the former to sell the generic versions of cholesterol drug Lipitor and combination blood pressure and cholesterol treatment Caduet.

The family of New York Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon might sell minority stakes in the baseball team because of a lawsuit that seeks to recover money from Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.

Taco Bell is introducing an advertising campaign to defend itself against accusations of a lawsuit which alleges that the fast-food chain doesn’t fill its tacos with real beef.

A Federal court in California has bit the hacker who publicized a jailbreak for the Playstation 3 console with a temporary restraining order, impounding his computers and barring him from publicizing the exploit on the Internet.

Goldman Sachs allegedly received $2.9 billion in bailout money from American International Group, which in turn received it from the Federal government as part of the 2008 bailout package.

Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) is suing a congressional cafeteria for significant dental injuries caused by biting olive pitin a swandwich wrap he ate in 2008.

NBA stars Shaquille O'Neal and Lamar Odom have been named in a federal class-action lawsuit against Power Balance, makers of faux new age bracelets.

Representative Dennis Kucinich sued the House of Representative's cafeteria for selling him a defective sandwich wrap that caused him years of dental damage. The culprit was a defective olive.

Companies better be sure they are selling the exact product they advertised to lure in customers, or be slapped with a lawsuit like Taco Bell. A California woman has brought about a false-advertising lawsuit against the fast food chain, stating that Taco Bell's beef products actually contain very little meat.

World's No.1 automaker Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay $10 million to a family of four people who were killed in a runaway Lexus crash near San Diego last year that prompted a string of recalls of millions of Toyota vehicles.

A New York federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit that was seeking to force Philip Morris USA Inc. to pay for medical monitoring program for Marlboro smokers.

For anyone thinking a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship game might humble the trash-talking New York Jets, think again.

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.