Gloria Allred loves her some publicity, but the high profile attorney's press generally focuses on her client's drama, not hers. So the fact that she's now fighting off a lawsuit for predatory business practices puts her in a unique position.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department can become a class action suit, possibly creating a class of potential victims in hundreds of thousands.
Did you get an email this week telling you that you're currently involved in a lawsuit against Apple? Perhaps you'd like to know why you became so litigious?
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who spent five days in a DEA holding cell after agents forgot he was there, unsurprisingly sued the agency, asking for $20 million -- but just as a starting point.
This is why media companies have reporting standards: Presumably Reuters will be able to legally prove its claims in an April 2 story about a Greek bank's questionable property deals.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been hoping his legal entanglements in the United States would end on Tuesday when a Bronx judge decided whether to accept his argument that diplomatic immunity protected him from a lawsuit, but the judge did no such thing.
George Hotz, the hacker who unlocked PS3 and started a war between Sony and Anonymous in the process, told The New Yorker's David Kushner that he was done sharing his exploits online, but he seems to have forgotten that sharing with a print reporter also makes your dirty laundry public.
Yesterday, two football players from Tennessee, Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, announced that they plan to sue ABC and the producers of The Bachelor for racial discrimination.
John Edwards' attorneys have threatened litigation against local news website DNAinfo after the site published a report Thursday about the former senator and presidential candidate, according to the site's managing editor.
Earlier this year, a real estate milestone was achieved in New York City when the most expensive apartment ever— a 6,700-square-foot 10-bedroom on Central Park West—was sold for the kingly sum $88 million. But there is trouble in the land of 24-karat gold bannisters and diamond-studded ice cubes.
Frank M. Fazio has a beef with Siri. He claims that Apple has presented a "misleading and deceptive message" about the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant in its ads.
Aside from the satisfaction of winning, prevailing in a class action lawsuit against Apple doesn't accomplish much of anything.
A fight between a company and a former employee over his Twitter account is raising questions about who can "own" a Twitter follower and just how much each one is worth.
The criminal case against Jerry Sandusky is progressing, but one of his alleged victims has filed a civil suit against him and Pennsylvania State University, alleging more than 100 instances of abuse by the former football coach.
In ridiculous sounding lawsuits of the day: Village Voice Media is suing Time Out New York for using the phrase "Best of NYC" on the cover of its November 3 issue.
Two lawsuits by two former Tea Party Patriots workers claim the group's founders defamed them online with some pretty nasty language, including allegations of rape and child molestation through a fake Facebook account.
NYPD payouts have hit $117.6 mllion annually
Plus: There's suddenly reason for optimism in the NBA lockout talks
Strauss-Kahn's response to a civil suit from his attacker does not claim the encounter never happened
Plus: Madonna movie about Wallis Simpson was not well-received
Misrepresented loans yield another batch of lawsuits, this time from a housing authority
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