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| Jun. 30 |
 France |
Court fines eBay over fake goods| 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 |
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
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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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| Feb.26 |
 Alaska |
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
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| Jan.11 |
Paris |
Cecilia Sarkozy fails to ban book| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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
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Opera legend Pavarotti dies at 71
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| 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 ...
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| Jun.4 |
Nigeria |
Nigeria sues drugs giant Pfizer Nigeria accusing the pharmaceutical company of carrying out improper trials for an anti-meningitis drug
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Mar.9 |
Southern California |
Winslet accepts libel settlement
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| 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
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| Sep.20 |
California |
State sues car firms on climate
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| Aug.17 |
USA |
Tobacco firms lose civil lawsuit
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'Plot to blow up planes' foiled
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| Jul.11 |
European Union |
Microsoft 'facing huge EU fine'
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| Feb.15 |
USA |
Mine giant settles pollution case
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| Oct.13 |
South Korea |
Samsung in price fixing admission
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Armenia |
Armenia heirs win $17m Axa payout
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| 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
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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 Software giant has won a court settlement from Scott Richter, one of the world's biggest senders of spam e-mail
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| Feb.24 |
Texas |
Yukos loses US bankruptcy battle
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| 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
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| Jul.20 |
New Delhi |
Court orders Bhopal victim payouts
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| Jul.9 |
European Union |
Philip Morris settles $1bn row
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| May.7 |
England |
Hollinger increases damages claim
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| 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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