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| Nov.18 |
 New York |
Trump settles Trump University lawsuits for $25m 
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| Sep.28 |
Washington |
Obama: Congress made mistake with veto of Saudi 9/11 bill Obama has said Congress made a 'mistake' by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudis over the attacks
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| Jun.27 |
USA |
VW US emissions settlement reported to cost $15bn German carmaker Volkswagen has reportedly reached a $15bn (£11.3bn) settlement with US car owners after admitting it cheated emission tests
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| Jun.23 |
Los Angeles |
Led Zeppelin cleared of plagiarism in Stairway case Led Zeppelin did not plagiarise the opening chords of the rock epic Stairway to Heaven from the US band Spirit, a Los Angeles jury has found
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| May.26 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google defeats Oracle in Java code copyright case
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| May.21 |
France |
MH17 crash: Victims' families sue Putin and Russia
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| May.3 |
China |
Apple loses trademark fight over iPhone name in China
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| Apr.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
VW reaches US deal in emissions scandal| Volkswagen will offer 'substantial compensation' and car buy-back deals in the US as part of a settlement of the the diesel emissions scandal | |
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| Apr.13 |
Arizona |
Germanwings crash: Families of victims sue US flight school
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| Mar.18 |
Florida |
Hulk Hogan awarded $115m in Gawker sex tape case |
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| Feb.29 |
New York |
Apple backed by judge in new iPhone access fight
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| Jan.4 |
Washington |
VW sued by US justice department
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| Oct.23 |
Venezuela |
Venezuela Central Bank sues US-based DolarToday website
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| Oct.8 |
South Carolina |
Walter Scott shooting: Family agrees $6.5m settlement
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| Aug.26 |
Texas |
Fifty Shades publisher 'must set aside' $10m in royalties
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| Aug.7 |
New York |
Nascar star Tony Stewart sued over Kevin Ward death |
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| Jul.2 |
USA |
BP to pay £12bn for Gulf oil spill |
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| Jun.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple Music changes policy after Taylor Swift stand |
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| Jun.19 |
Moscow |
Russian fury at Belgium asset seizure in Yukos oil case |
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| Jun.2 |
Malaysia |
MH370: Negligence suit settled out of court |
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| Apr.30 |
Germany |
Airbus to sue in US, German spying row |
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| Mar.10 |
South Korea |
South Korea flight attendant sues over 'nut rage' |
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Los Angeles |
Blurred Lines 'copied Marvin Gaye' |
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| Feb.26 |
Virginia |
Virginia eugenics victims win payout |
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| Feb.16 |
USA |
Lance Armstrong given $10m bill after losing lawsuit |
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| Jan.6 |
 Nigeria Delta |
Shell agrees Nigeria oil spill deal 
Map of Bodo Nigeria Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a $84m (£55m) settlement with residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta for two oil spills
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| Dec.26 |
New England |
US city sues Petrobras for corruption |
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| Oct.31 |
Malaysia |
Lawsuit filed in Malaysia over missing MH370 |
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| Sep.4 |
New Orleans |
BP found 'grossly negligent' in 2010 Gulf oil spill |
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| Aug.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple and Samsung in legal deal |
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| Aug.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
LinkedIn in $6m labour violation settlement |
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| Jul.28 |
Los Angeles |
LA Clippers sale 'can go ahead' despite Sterling's objections |
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Moscow |
Russia to appeal against $50bn Yukos shareholder payout |
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| Jul.25 |
Moscow |
McDonald's in Russian court case over standards |
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| Jul.16 |
Netherlands |
Dutch state found liable in deaths of 300 men in Srebrenica massacre The Netherlands is liable for the deaths of men who were taken from a Dutch compound in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a Dutch court ruled
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| Jun.16 |
 Australia |
Shipwreck families sue Australia Relatives of dozens of asylum seekers who were killed in a shipwreck off Christmas Island in 2010 have launched a legal case against Austral...
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| Jun.12 |
 Malaysia |
MH370 families get $50,000 payments The families of passengers on the missing Malaysian passenger plane have begun to receive initial compensation payments of $50,00
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| Nov.19 |
Manhattan |
JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement JP Morgan has agreed to a record $13bn settlement with US regulators for misleading investors during the housing crisis
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| Aug.29 |
Philadelphia |
NFL in '$765m concussion settlement' |
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| Jul.25 |
Houston |
Halliburton to plead guilty on spill US company Halliburton will plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill
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| Feb.4 |
New York |
US 'will sue' Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's says it is to be sued by US government over the credit ratings agency's assessment of mortgage bonds before the financial crisis
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| Jan.7 |
North Carolina |
US bank to pay $12bn settlement Bank of America has agreed to pay US government mortgage agency Fannie Mae $3.6bn to settle claims relating to residential home loans
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| Jan.3 |
Washington |
Transocean agrees oil spill fine
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| Aug.31 |
London |
Russian oligarchs end $4.75bn UK court battle
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| Aug.24 |
 South Korea |
Samsung to fight court ruling for Apple Samsung plans to challenge a U.S. court ruling that recommends more than $1 billion in damages to Apple over a patent dispute
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San Francisco Bay Area |
Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn Map of San Jose USA A US jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit
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| Jul.18 |
Washington |
Yemen drone killings prompt US lawsuit
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| Jul.2 |
USA |
GlaxoSmithKline 'guilty of fraud'
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| Jul.1 |
China |
Apple 'settles China iPad case'
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| May.13 |
Panama |
Castaway sues over rescue failure
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| Mar.2 |
Louisiana |
BP reaches $7.8bn oil spill deal BP says it has reached a deal with the largest group of plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill
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| Feb.9 |
USA |
US banks in mortgage settlement
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| Sep.1 |
Washington |
US 'to sue banks over mortgages'
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| Aug.16 |
Washington |
Tobacco firms sue over new labels
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| Aug.8 |
New York |
Hotel housekeeper suing Strauss-Kahn
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| Jul.9 |
Milan |
Berlusconi firm in damages order
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| Apr.20 |
United Kingdom |
BP sues Gulf oil spill companies
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| Feb.14 |
 Ecuador |
Huge fine in Amazon pollution case A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron a reported $8bn for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region
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| Dec.21 |
Nigeria |
Halliburton settles Nigeria bribery claims
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| Dec.15 |
Washington |
U.S. to sue BP over Gulf of Mexico oil spill | The federal government joined the dozens of lawsuits against BP and several other companies over the massive oil spill, seeking unlimited penalties. The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in April killed 11 w... | |
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| Aug.26 |
Chile |
Miner family suing owners
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| Jul.23 |
Netherlands |
Firm guilty of 'exporting toxic waste'
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| Mar.11 |
New York |
New York agrees 9/11 dust payout
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| Dec.16 |
Switzerland |
Credit Suisse to pay $536m fine over Iran
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| Sep.20 |
 Ivory Coast |
Firm agrees Ivorian waste payouts Trafigura, an oil trading firm, has agreed to pay $46m compensation to people in Ivory Coast who say they were made ill by dumped waste
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| Sep.2 |
USA |
Pfizer agrees record fraud fine
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| Jun.8 |
Nigeria |
Shell to pay $15.5 million to settle claims Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental...
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| Nov.20 |
London |
Jackson to appear at High Court |
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| Jul.24 |
London |
Mosley wins court case over orgy |
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| Jul.17 |
European Union |
EU hits Intel with fresh charges |
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| Feb.27 |
European Union |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn The European Commission has fined US computer giant for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour
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| Jan.11 |
Paris |
Cecilia Sarkozy fails to ban book |
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| Jun.4 |
Nigeria |
Nigeria sues drugs giant Pfizer |
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| Apr.10 |
New York |
U.S. files piracy complaint against China |
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| Aug.20 |
USA |
Merck to fight drug onslaught |
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| Aug.19 |
Texas |
Merck punished for faulty drug The drugs giant is to blame for the fatal heart attack suffered by a man taking its painkiller Vioxx
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| Aug.10 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft in $7m spam settlement |
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| Feb.4 |
Washington |
Court rejects $280bn tobacco case |
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| Mar.24 |
European Union |
Microsoft hit by record EU fine |
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| Apr.4 |
Washington |
Microsoft loses antitrust suit| Microsoft is confident that it will eventually overturn the decision by a judge that it violated anti-monopoly laws | |
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