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Eskimo village sues over global warming  A village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies , claiming that the warming threatens the community's existence Cecilia Sarkozy fails to ban book

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Ex-Gitmo detainee loses lawsuit  A judge ruled that an Australian man's claim that he had been mistreated in Pakistan before being sent to the U.S. prison could not be believed EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
Court fines eBay over fake goods


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Jun. 30   France
  A French court has ordered eBay to pay 40m euros to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods


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Mar.6   Sydney


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Feb.27   European Union
  The European Commission has fined US computer giant for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour
Feb.26   Alaska


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Jan.11   Paris
  A judge has rejected a bid by President Sarkozy's ex-wife to block publication of a book about her


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Nov.26   Italy Pavarotti's widow sues for $44 million
  Nicoletta Mantovani has sued two friends of the late tenor, claiming their comments about her marriage were defamatory Nov.14   New York Families:Chiquita liable for torture, murder  A $7.86 billion lawsuit was filed on behalf of nearly 400 Colombian families who say Chiquita Brands International should be held responsible Nov.9   New York Row delays Harry Potter lexicon  A publisher has agreed to delay the release of a Potter encyclopaedia after being sued by author JK Rowling Oct.15   USA US loses cotton subsidies fight  The US could face billions of dollars in trade sanctions for failing to scrap subsidies paid to American cotton growers Oct.11   Philadelphia   Blackwater sued in U.S. court  A law firm filed suit against Blackwater USA on behalf of the families of Iraqis killed and injured in last month's shooting in Baghdad's Nusoor... Sep.17   European Union Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal  Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro ($690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispu... Sep.7   Iran   Iran faces $2.65bn US bomb award  A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $2.65bn to the families of 241 marines killed in a 1983 bombing of their Beirut barracks Opera legend Pavarotti dies at 71 Jul.20   Nigeria Pfizer faces new Nigerian lawsuit  Nigerian government lawyers withdrew a $7 billion civil lawsuit, saying they have discovered new material and plan to file an even stronger ... Jun.4   Nigeria Nigeria sues drugs giant Pfizer  Nigeria accusing the pharmaceutical company of carrying out improper trials for an anti-meningitis drug May.14   Australia Bullied in A$1m payout  A teen has won record damages after a court found that his school 'grossly failed' in its duty to protect him from a school bully Apr.10   New York U.S. files piracy complaint against China  The U.S. filed 2 trade complaints at the WTO over piracy of American books, music, video and movies and limited market access Mar.13   San Francisco Bay Area Viacom to sue Google and YouTube  Viacom Media has accused Google, which bought YouTube, of illegally using its TV programs Mar.9   Southern California Winslet accepts libel settlement Jan.10   San Francisco Bay Area Cisco to sue Apple on iPhone name

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Sep.25   USA Tobacco firms sued over low tar
Sep.20   California State sues car firms on climate Aug.17   USA Tobacco firms lose civil lawsuit 'Plot to blow up planes' foiled Jul.11   European Union Microsoft 'facing huge EU fine' Feb.15   USA Mine giant settles pollution case

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Oct.13   South Korea Samsung in price fixing admission
  Armenia Armenia heirs win $17m Axa payout Aug.20   USA Merck to fight drug onslaught  Drugs giant is vowing to fight a potential wave of thousands of lawsuits over the painkiller Vioxx 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
Aug.10   Microsoft Microsoft in $7m spam settlement  Software giant has won a court settlement from Scott Richter, one of the world's biggest senders of spam e-mail Feb.24   Texas Yukos loses US bankruptcy battle Feb.4   Washington Court rejects $280bn tobacco case  The government claim is accusing the country's biggest tobacco companies of covering up the effects of smoking

year 2004 Top ^

Jul.20   New Delhi Court orders Bhopal victim payouts
Jul.9   European Union Philip Morris settles $1bn row May.7   England Hollinger increases damages claim Mar.24   European Union Microsoft hit by record EU fine  The European Commission has found MS guilty of abusing the 'near-monopoly' of Windows and fined it $613 million

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Euro mark celebrations


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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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