Despite an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit to the tune of $9.5 million dollars, Facebook continues to find itself the subject of legal action resulting from the company’s controversial Beacon advertising program.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Ventura County under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit alleges that the county did not hire a qualified candidate because she is deaf.
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility LLC are locked in a legal battle over claims in Verizon's advertising. The ads under dispute describe Verizon's network as the "most reliable" and "best" network in America, which AT&T considers false and misleading.
Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings is named in a federal lawsuit that claims the company directed thousands of investors to financier Allen Stanford. Stanford is accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded clients of more than $7 billion over a period of several years.
The legal dispute between social networking giant Facebook and social network aggregator Power.com took a new turn last week as Power.com countersued Facebook, alleging that Facebook has created and exploited a monopoly. Facebook previously sued Power.com for fraud, trademark and copyright infringement, and other violations.
One-time NBA players Christian Laettner and Brian Davis, currently business partners in a real estate development deal in Durham, NC, face several million dollars in litigation from at least five business associates who they allegedly failed to pay as agreed.
Computer software giant Microsoft, Inc. agreed to a proposed $100 million antitrust settlement with the state of Mississippi. The suit stems from the company's allegedly anticompetitive software-bundling policies and criticizes Microsoft's pricing structure for the Windows operating system.
Video game maker Midway Games has reached a settlement with major stockholder Mark Thomas, marking the end of a dispute related to the company's bankruptcy proceedings. Thomas accepted $5 million, a fraction of the amount he initially demanded.
KeyPoint Credit Union, a Los Angeles-area banking company, faces a class action civil rights lawsuit filed by the Disability Rights Advocates organization. The suit alleges systematic civil rights violations because the company has failed to make its phone services available to the hearing impaired.
Sempra Energy, owner of San Diego Gas & Electric, announced that a settlement is near in connection with the company's role in a series of wildfires that swept through San Diego and southern California in the fall of 2007.
Opponents of the Google Books project, an effort by the online search company to create and make available digital copies of millions of published works, have succeeded in delaying a settlement that would have allowed the company access to books with questionable copyright status.
Computer maker Apple, Inc. has been ordered to pay $19 million to integrated circuit manufacturer OPTi, Inc. after a Texas judge ruled that the company willfully violated an OPTi patent. Apple's lawyers had argued that the patent was invalid.
Online chat company Paltalk Holdings is suing Xbox maker Microsoft, Inc. over Xbox Live functions that allegedly infringe on Paltalk's patents. The dispute is linked to various messaging technologies incorporated into the Xbox Live system for online play.
Apple Inc., maker of the popular iPhone and iPod Touch, is facing litigation over alleged patent-infringing technology incorporated in their flagship mobile devices. Two Scottish companies claim the devices incorporate a touchscreen-acceleration technology they developed and patented.
In a bizarre legal filing alleging kickbacks, strong-arm tactics, and millions of dollars in missing funds, New York City property owner Ciao-Di Restaurant Corp. has sued development official Alan Friedberg to recover losses stemming from the construction of a new condo building in Greenwich Village.
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