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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 Map of Providence Rhode Island USA The US city of Providence, Rhode Island is suing the Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras over investor losses due to a corruption scandal
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| Oct.31 |
 Malaysia |
Lawsuit filed in Malaysia over missing MH370 Two children whose father was on the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared have filed a lawsuit against the airline and the government
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| Sep.4 |
New Orleans |
BP found 'grossly negligent' in 2010 Gulf oil spill A US judge has ruled BP was 'grossly negligent' in the lead-up to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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| Aug.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple and Samsung in legal deal Apple and Samsung have agreed to withdraw all legal cases against each other outside the United States
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| Aug.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
LinkedIn in $6m labour violation settlement LinkedIn has agreed to pay $6m (£3.6m) in wages and damages after regulators found it failed to account for all the hours worked by its empl...
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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 Russia will appeal against a international court ruling that it should pay $50bn in damages, the biggest compensation package ever
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| Jul.25 |
Moscow |
McDonald's in Russian court case over standards
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| Jul.19 |
Florida |
RJ Reynolds told to pay wife of cancer victim $23.6bn
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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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| Jul.14 |
Melbourne |
Record payout over Australia Black Saturday fires
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USA |
US loses trade spat to China, India
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| Jun.20 |
Manhattan |
'Huge' settlement in NY Central Park jogger case
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| Jun.18 |
Washington |
Redskins team trademarks cancelled |
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| Jun.16 |
 Australia |
Shipwreck families sue Australia Map of Christmas Island Australia Relatives of dozens of asylum seekers who were killed in a shipwreck off Christmas Island in 2010 have launched a legal case against Australia
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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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| May.20 |
USA |
NFL players sue over painkillers |
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| May.16 |
Washington |
General Motors fined $35m over recall
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| May.2 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Samsung ordered to pay Apple $119.6m
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| Mar.19 |
Japan |
Toyota in deal over US safety probe
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| Mar.6 |
Nevada |
'Drunk' man sues Las Vegas casino
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| Feb.25 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Asiana Airlines fined $500,000 over San Francisco crash
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| Feb.2 |
Germany |
Porsche faces 1.8bn euros lawsuit
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| Jan.2 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook sued over message 'scan'
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| Nov.26 |
USA |
NHL facing 'concussion' lawsuit |
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| Nov.22 |
Wyoming |
US wind firm fined over eagle deaths |
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| Nov.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Samsung to pay Apple $290m for copying phones |
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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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| Nov.15 |
Manhattan |
JP Morgan agrees $4.5bn settlement |
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| Nov.12 |
USA |
American Airlines and US Airways settle merger suit |
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| Nov.4 |
New Jersey |
Johnson & Johnson fined $2.2bn |
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New York |
Hedge fund in $1.8bn fraud payout |
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| Nov.2 |
Chile |
Tortured Chilean wins compensation |
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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
| It said several of Samsung's devices had infringed Apple's software and design patents
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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
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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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