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| May. 3 |
 Alabama |
To Kill A Mockingbird author sues 
Map of Monroeville AL Southern U.S. Harper Lee has sued a literary agent she says tricked her into assigning him the copyright on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book
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| May. 1 |
Iowa |
Huge payout for US disabled workers A US jury has awarded $240m to 32 mentally disabled men who suffered decades of abuse while working at a turkey processing company in Iowa
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| Apr.24 |
 Brazil |
Judge orders Facebook memorial page removed A Brazilian judge has ordered Facebook to delete the profile of Juliana Ribeiro Campos, a 24-year-old journalist, who died in May last year
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| Mar.15 |
USA |
SAC Capital fund pays $614m over insider trading A major hedge fund has agreed to pay a record $614m (£406m) to US regulators to settle charges of insider trading
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| Mar.6 |
European Union |
EU fines Microsoft over web browser 
Microsoft has been fined 561 million euros for failing to promote a range of web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer, to users in E...
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| Feb.26 |
Pennsylvania |
Drinkers sue over 'watered-down' Bud Beer drinkers in the US have filed a $5m lawsuit accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer
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| Feb.22 |
Washington |
US government to sue Armstrong
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| Feb.11 |
 Netherlands |
Facebook sued over 'like' button Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the 'like' button and other features of the social network
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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.8 |
Baghdad |
US firm pays out over Abu Ghraib
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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 |
Switzerland |
Swiss bank to close after US fine
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Washington |
Transocean agrees oil spill fine Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, has agreed to a settlement with the US government
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| Dec.27 |
Pittsburgh |
US chipmaker faces huge patent fine
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| Dec.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple denied Samsung sales ban
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| Nov.29 |
New York |
Strauss-Kahn maid case 'settled'
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| Nov.15 |
Washington |
Gulf spill: BP to get record criminal fine
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| Oct.25 |
USA |
Tom Cruise sues publisher for $50m
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| Oct.10 |
Netherlands |
Shell faces Nigeria spill case
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| Oct.2 |
Oregon |
China firm sues Obama over farms
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| Oct.1 |
USA |
US court lifts Samsung tablet ban
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U. S. Midwest |
Oglala Sioux tribe's beer lawsuit fails
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| Aug.31 |
 London |
Russian oligarchs end $4.75bn UK court battle Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich has won his legal battle against exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky
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| Aug.30 |
Tokyo |
Japan supports Samsung in Apple dispute
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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 CA California A US jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit
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| Aug.15 |
London |
Banking giant pays $340M to settle laundering charges
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| Jul.18 |
Washington |
Yemen drone killings prompt US lawsuit Relatives of three Americans killed in drone strikes in Yemen are suing top Pentagon and CIA officials, saying the killings were unconstitut...
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| Jul.13 |
USA |
Credit card firms to pay $7.25bn |
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| Jul.2 |
USA |
GlaxoSmithKline 'guilty of fraud' GSK is to pay $3bn in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The drug giant is to plead guilty to promoting two drugs for unapproved...
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| Jul.1 |
 China |
Apple 'settles China iPad case' Apple has agreed to pay $60m to Chinese firm Proview to settle a dispute involving rights to the 'iPad' name, a court in China has said
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| Jun.21 |
Netherlands |
Apple faces patent and 4G payouts |
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| May.23 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook and banks face lawsuit |
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| May.13 |
 Panama |
Castaway sues over rescue failure A Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific is suing the owners of a cruise ship that sailed past
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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
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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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