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Nigeria Sues Big Tobacco on Kid Smokers

Claims companies deliberately market cigarettes to children

(Newser) - Nigeria has launched a $40 billion lawsuit against Philip Morris and two other major tobacco companies, claiming they deliberately market cigarettes to children. Its government is demanding punitive damages and compensation for current and future health care costs, reports the BBC. A spokesman for the largest of the three, British...

MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence
MIT Sues
Gehry for Negligence
Nov 6, 2007 5:35 PM CST

MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence

Architect's $15M design for campus building called 'deficient'

(Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which...

Nader Sues Dems, Claiming '04 Conspiracy

Suit says Dems and Kerry-Edwards blocked him from state ballots

(Newser) - Ralph Nader jumped into the political fray today, suing the Dems for a "vast Democratic Party conspiracy" to block his 2004 election, McClatchy Newspapers reports. He accused the Democratic Party, Kerry-Edwards 2004, and other groups of keeping him from state ballots "as a means to drive into deep...

Vonage Settles Patent Dispute, Sees Shares Rise

Longer-term troubles still loom for vexed Internet phone provider

(Newser) - Troubled Internet telephone company Vonage gained a "new lease on life" yesterday when it settled a longstanding patent infringement dispute with rival Verizon. Vonage share prices shot up 70% in after-hours trading on the heels of a settlement that observers see as a "big win for Vonage,"...

Microsoft Caves on EU Antitrust Suit
Microsoft Caves on EU Antitrust Suit
Oct 22, 2007 10:25 AM CDT

Microsoft Caves on EU Antitrust Suit

Must allow even open-source software developers access to Windows

(Newser) - Microsoft is conceding its 9-year antitrust battle with the EU after striking a deal that will force the software giant to license its software secrets to anyone who asks at drastically reduced rates. In exchange, the EU has stopped the daily variable fines of up to 3 million euro that...

Lawsuit to iPhones: You're Toxic
Lawsuit to iPhones: You're Toxic
Oct 21, 2007 10:09 AM CDT

Lawsuit to iPhones: You're Toxic

(Newser) - A California environmental group has announced it's filing a lawsuit against Apple's popular iPhone, demanding the company eliminate "dangerous" toxic chemicals from the gadgets or include a warning label on the product as required by state law. At issue are phthalates, suspected of causing birth defects, that are used...

HP-Owned Mercury Settles Backdating Suit

$117.5 award in class action case is largest yet for options mischief

(Newser) - In the largest settlement yet for a class action lawsuit concerning stock options backdating, Mercury Interactive will pay out $117.5 million to pension fund investors, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Mercury's counsel was quick to say that the company was not admitting liability despite agreeing to the settlement....

6 Months After Virginia Tech, Lawsuits Loom

Lawyer representing 20 families files notices against town, state

(Newser) - The Virginia Tech shootings six months ago Tuesday left 32 people dead and 20 threatening to sue. A lawyer yesterday notified state and town officials that he represents the families of 12 people killed and eight wounded; the group is weighing legal action on the grounds that town employees “...

Iraqis Bring US Lawsuit Against Blackwater

Shooting victims accuse security firm of promoting 'lawlessness'

(Newser) - Saying the security firm committed "extrajudicial killings and war crimes" in a Baghdad firefight, one injured man and the relatives of three other Iraqis killed last month are suing Blackwater in US federal court. An advocacy group filed the suit today, Reuters reports, seeking compensatory and punitive damages while...

AP Sues News Site for Copyright Infringement

Says Moreover uses copy sans permission

(Newser) - The Associated Press is taking news aggregator Moreover to court, for allegedly posting and archiving AP wire stories without permission. The lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court demands a stop to the practice and unspecified damages. The service doesn’t fall under fair use, in the AP's eyes, because Moreover...

EPA Wins Record $4.6B Acid Rain Settlement

Power company must install equipment to drastically reduce emissions

(Newser) - American Electrical Power will spend $4.6 billion to drastically reduce  harmful emissions at coal-burning plants in five states in the largest pollution settlement in Justice Department history, CNN reports. Under the deal, to be announced today, the Ohio-based company must also pay an additional $60 million on cleanup and...

Vonage Shares Soar 76% on Sprint Deal

$80M patent settlement licenses tech, curtails rising legal costs

(Newser) - Vonage shares saw their biggest-ever bump today, after the company announced it has settled its patent lawsuit with Sprint for $80 million. In addition to cutting its legal losses, Vonage gains a license to use the disputed tech. “It's good in that things could have gotten worse,” one...

Homeland Security Sues Illinois Over Worker Plan

Claims state law is protecting illegals

(Newser) - Homeland Security is suing Illinois for effectively protecting illegals from a new federal crackdown, the Chicago Tribune reports. A DHS plan has companies submit data on workers, but Illinois' governor says the Feds are too slow and no good: "The Internet-based program has a less than 50 percent accuracy...

'Thou Shalt Not Sue Me!'
'Thou Shalt Not Sue Me!'
Sep 21, 2007 5:13 AM CDT

'Thou Shalt Not Sue Me!'

'God' responds to lawsuit, claims immunity

(Newser) - "God" has apparently responded to a lawsuit accusing Him of making terroristic threats against mankind. If that sounds like the premise for a Jim Carrey movie, well, one day it might be. Agnostic Nebraska legislator Ernie Chambers sued God in a county court for all the disasters He brings...

Dry Cleaners Sell Shop Shredded by $67M Lawsuit

Deafeated by lost business, trauma

(Newser) - Years of legal fees and emotional trauma have forced a couple to sell the Washington D.C. dry cleaning shop that was hit with a $67 million lawsuit by a customer over a lost pair of pants. The publicity from the lawsuit, which the customer lost, cost Soo and Jin...

Rather Sues CBS for $70M
Rather Sues
CBS for $70M
Sep 19, 2007 5:15 PM CDT

Rather Sues CBS for $70M

Anchor alleges fraud in Guard report aftermath, says contract violated

(Newser) - Dan Rather has filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its corporate parent, claiming bias and fraud in the investigation of the broadcast that brought him down—and then violated his subsequent contract with “60 Minutes.” The filing says Rather was made “a scapegoat” in order...

Senator Sues God for Disasters
Senator Sues God for Disasters
Sep 18, 2007 5:04 AM CDT

Senator Sues God for Disasters

Cites 'harmful activities' by 'omnipresent defendant'

(Newser) - A Nebraska state senator has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against God to "cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats." God is accused of causing "egregious earthquakes and horrendous hurricanes," among several other horrors. Politician Ernie Chambers says he's simply trying to...

Ill. Abortion Clinic Fights to Open
Ill. Abortion Clinic Fights
to Open
Sep 17, 2007 4:26 PM CDT

Ill. Abortion Clinic Fights to Open

Planned Parenthood cites pressure in case of vanishing permit

(Newser) - A federal judge will hear a lawsuit today alleging a Planned Parenthood clinic lost its permit on the eve of its opening due to pressure from anti-abortion groups. Officials in Aurora, Ill., maintain the permit they approved last winter withheld the facility’s true nature, and many in town are...

Subprime Crisis Sparks a Spate of Legal Battles

Investors, homeowners, banks head to court, but obstacles lie ahead

(Newser) - The troubles plaguing Countrywide and Bear Stearns’ hedge funds will move from the boardroom to the courtroom. Homeowners and banks are suing mortgage lenders, shareholders are suing funds, the SEC is investigating executives, and Congress may conduct hearings into credit agencies' practices. The current mess ensnares “an incredible range...

'Time' Loses Suharto Lawsuit
'Time' Loses Suharto Lawsuit
Sep 10, 2007 7:57 PM CDT

'Time' Loses Suharto Lawsuit

(Newser) - Time must pay former Indonesian dictator Suharto $106 million over a 1999 article that defamed him, that country's highest court ruled today. The ruling, over a story that claimed Suharto stole some $73 billion during his bloody rule that spanned four decades, comes after lower courts twice ruled in Time's...

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