The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld a $13 million award of punitive damages against an automobile manufacturer in a closely watched case claiming that a dangerous minivan seat caused the…
One of the most popular features on Facebook could soon be gone, if the social networking site’s operators comply with a takedown request from a U.S. toymaker.
An Internet company that served as a platform for individuals interested in searching television and radio broadcasts, creating video clips, embedding them on websites and sharing them with others has…
A technology company once represented by Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner claims in a lawsuit that the firm helped transfer its intellectual property to another client.
Max Mosley, the head of Formula One racing, has won a record $119,021 in damages in a British privacy case, over a News of the World article that falsely claimed…
Trial lawyer Willie Gary had sought $10 billion in a suit that claimed Motorola stole his client’s idea for a vehicle tracking system, but he has settled for considerably less.
Bank of America e-mails are being cited as proof in a lawsuit by Los Angeles that claims the city’s brokers took kickbacks in a massive scheme to rig the bidding…
San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp. that seeks to stop residential foreclosures that were the result of predatory lending practices.
Updated: After syndicated columnist Robert Novak reportedly hit a homeless pedestrian with his car Wednesday morning and didn’t immediately stop, an attorney on a bicycle chased him down.
When his legal defense didn’t succeed, a Massachusetts physician who was found civilly liable for $15 million in his girlfriend’s strangling death allegedly turned to illegal tactics to try to…
A railroad company has settled with the government for a record $102 million in a case over a 2000 wildfire in a forest north of Sacramento, Calif., that was especially…
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