A couple in Philadelphia has filed a class-action lawsuit against the NSA and Verizon, claiming they and their phone records were targeted for surveillance because of their outspoken criticism of Barack Obama and the U.S. military. Indeed, these aren't just any disgruntled Verizon customers.
After much speculation, the Justice Department pulled back the curtain on its plan to recoup some of the dozens of millions of dollars that the government spent sponsoring confessed cheater Lance Armstrong.
Fans of justice will be glad to hear that New York City will pay for all those books and all that media equipment that the police trashed when it famously raided the Occupy Wall Street camp on November 15, 2011
The owner of a New York City apartment is accusing former tenant Arianna Huffington of trashing the place, leaving bloodied mattresses, gouged wood floors and a very expensive scratched up table.
An attorney representing Jose Martinez says Disneyland has agreed to pay him $8,000 in damages after he was stuck on the famous "It's a Small World" ride for about 30 minutes in 2009.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The mystery novelist was awarded nearly $51 million in a lawsuit against her old financial management team, so she should be able to buy back the personal helicopter she used for book "research."
The Pirate Bay — one of the Internet's premier destinations for infringing copyrights — is really mad that someone set up a copycat. So mad that they sued them for violating their copyright.
Yes, that sounds like a parody movie trailer. But unfortunately this is a real story based on real things that happened in real life instead of brilliant satire. The Washington Post has an amazing story about how an Obama lawn sign ignited an intense legal battle in a Virginia neighborhood.
Under Colorado law, a fetus is not a person, but Catholic leaders say that's no excuse for one of their hospitals to use that argument to win a legal battle.
The world's largest automaker has agreed to settle dozens of state and federal lawsuits filed over acceleration problems in their cars in exchange for $1.1 billion in damage payments.
Ellen Pao shook up Silicon Valley's power base when she sued one of the biggest venture capital firms in the business and is likely to shake it up even further by suddenly announcing on Quora that the same firm just fired her.
Previously unseen court documents show that the former Harper's Bazaar intern suing Hearst allege that she did not do her job that well, but her lawyer, who is crusading against the practice of unpaid internships in glamorous fields, says that doesn't change the law.
Just as Amazon's event to announce its new products got underway on Thursday, a federal judge approved a settlement with three major e-book publishers accused of colluding with Amazon's competitors (namely Apple) on prices.
Whether or not there is prostitution in the Macau casinos owned by big-time GOP donor and casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson isn't the point of his lawsuit against a Jewish organization he accuses of libel.
New York City did not fire Anthony Bologna, the police officer who became internet-infamous for pepper spraying protesters in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street protests, but it sure doesn't have his back, either.
The federal judge who dismissed Lance Armstrong's lawsuit seeking an injunction against a USADA investigation into doping allegations against the champion cyclist didn't actually use the word "troll" but he might as well have.
You can't sue god or mother nature, so Belgium tourism officials want to do the next best thing: Sue the people who forecast the weather.
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
AIG and BoA were working on a settlement in January, but BoA never told anyone
AIG claims they were duped into investing in mortgage backed securities
Swedish streaming site gets sued after two weeks on American soil
The limits to the filmmaker's 'Star Wars' empire show up in court
The tangled story behind the French journalist's sexual assault charge
The chilling effects of her lawsuit over Old Navy's parody ad campaign
A job application throws doubt on the Post's story about the maid's hiring
The New York Post has several legal defenses to choose from
Post headlines about DSK's accuser are particularly ridiculous when nestled in legalese
A Supreme Court decision has patient advocates in a tizzy over labeling laws
WTForever21 blogger Rachel Kane refuses to give in to the store's demands
A lawyer takes legal action against the many people who made fun of him
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