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…
Considerably expanding what some understood to be the scope of permissible malpractice claim against a law firm after the underlying case at issue has settled, a New Jersey appeals court…
An “obsessed” former colleague of a Philadelphia television news anchor who allegedly illegally hacked into her e-mail and helped get her fired from her job by revealing personal information to…
A federal judge has criticized class action law firm Labaton Sucharow for seeking to add new and unrelated claims to a lawsuit against American International Group.
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