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AXA Rosenberg Settles Coding Lawsuit for $65 Million
Nov 2 2011 // Money manager AXA Rosenberg and co-founder Barr Rosenberg agreed to pay $65 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who said they lost money after a computer coding glitch impeded the firm’s ability to manage...
Most of $19.9 Billion Madoff vs JPMorgan Case Tossed
Nov 2 2011 // A federal judge threw out most of a $19.9 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co and a $2 billion case against UBS AG by the trustee seeking money for victims of epic swindler Bernard Madoff’s fraud. The...
U.S. Sues Allied Home Mortgage for Lending Fraud
Nov 1 2011 // The U.S. Department of Justice sued Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp and two top executives over fraudulent lending practices that have cost the government more than $834 million of insurance claims. In a complaint filed...
Occupy Nashville Protesters Sue Governor Over Curfew
Nov 1 2011 // Occupy Nashville protesters are suing Gov. Bill Haslam over a new curfew on the grounds around the Capitol that has been used to dislodge their camp and arrest demonstrators. The lawsuit claims the curfew was created...
New York AG’s Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Charles Schwab Tossed
Nov 1 2011 // A lawsuit against Charles Schwab Corp. over auction-rate securities that was filed by former New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was thrown out by a state court judge. The 2009 lawsuit accused the San Francisco-based...
Corporations Win Key Product Liability Trials; More Victories to Come?
Nov 1 2011 // A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them. AstraZeneca Plc, Merck & Co. and...
Business Jet Operators Sue IRS Over Ticket Tax
Nov 1 2011 // A group of Ohio-based private business jet operators is suing the Internal Revenue Service for $643 million, saying the government wrongly applied a ticket tax meant for commercial passengers only. The lawsuit in U.S....
Insurer Sues Manufacturer Over South Dakota Collapsed Pool Claims
Oct 31 2011 // An insurance company is suing the maker of a portable pool to try to recoup money paid out as a result of a collapsed pool at the Mitchell Aquatic Center in Mitchell, S.D. The Mitchell Daily Republic reports Nautilus...
Louisiana Must Turn Over Records to BP-U.S. Judge
Oct 28 2011 // Louisiana must quickly turn over documents requested by oil giant BP, or else face dismissal of its lawsuit against the company for losses caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a judge ruled Thursday. Louisiana faces...
Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart
Oct 28 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this...
Missouri Judge Declares Mistrial in $700M Tobacco Lawsuit
Oct 27 2011 // A judge in Missouri has declared a mistrial in a $700 million lawsuit against Philip Morris USA, after jurors failed to reach agreement on whether Missouri smokers were misled into believing that light cigarettes were...
RIM Hit with Consumer Lawsuits over BlackBerry Outage
Oct 27 2011 // Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left...
California AG Sues Water Bottle Companies over Biodegradability Claims
Oct 26 2011 // Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed a “greenwashing” lawsuit on Wednesday against three companies alleged to have made false and misleading claims by marketing plastic water bottles as “100 percent...
Maryland’s Highest Court Rules on Lead Paint Lawsuits
Oct 26 2011 // Maryland’s highest court has ruled that a law giving owners of certain rental properties immunity from personal injury lawsuits based on a child’s ingestion of lead-based paint is invalid. The Court of Appeals...
Pittsburgh Settles Suit Stemming From G20 Summit
Oct 26 2011 // The city of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit filed by two men who said they were wrongly swept up in arrests during the Group of 20 economic summit two years ago. Solicitor Dan Regan said on Monday, Oct. 24, that the...
Movie Star Stallone Sued, Accused of Copyright Infringement Over Screenplay
Oct 26 2011 // Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer’s screenplay to make “The Expendables,” a movie about mercenaries hired to defeat a military dictator. The lawsuit...
AIG Fraud Suit Against Bank of America Won’t Be Moved to State Court
Oct 21 2011 // A federal judge rejected American International Group Inc.’s request to move its $10 billion mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. back to a New York state court, where AIG believed the case...
Two Railroads Face Pollution Lawsuit in California
Oct 19 2011 // When the lump on her toddler’s tummy turned out to be a rare cancer, Carla Hernandez wondered if living just a half-mile from two rail yards emitting a constant veil of near-invisible pollution was somehow...
Accenture, Guidewire Settle Patent Suits
Oct 19 2011 // Accenture and Guidewire Software Inc. have agreed to resolve all outstanding patent litigation between the companies concerning their respective insurance claims management software. San Mateo, Calif.-based Guidewire has...
Vermont Lawsuit Says Ex-Wife of Murder Suspect Negligent
Oct 19 2011 // The father of a slain Braintree, Vermont, girl is accusing the suspect’s ex-wife of playing a role in her death by not protecting her. The Vermont Supreme Court heard an appeal from James Bennett on Tuesday, Oct....
