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Heating up the so-called smartphone patent war, HTC has filed two counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida, claiming that the iPhone-maker has infringed on two HP patents it acquired in December last year.

Wallerand de Saint-Just, a lawyer for the National Front, told the European press that legal action would be filed later this week, adding that projecting such an image of Marine Le Pen with a swastika implies that she is a Nazi.

Rapper DMX was hospitalized with a concussion Saturday after losing control of his ATV in South Carolina.

The settlement, which lawyers are calling the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. history, would resolve dozens of lawsuits filed by retailers in 2005 that accused the card companies of fixing fees for processing credit and debit card payments and prohibiting stores from steering their customers to cheaper forms of payment.

A mom is suing Justin Bieber for $9.23 million, claiming the Biebs is responsible for wrecking her ears after screaming fans at a Portland, Ore., concert damaged her hearing.

Kristen Saban, the daughter of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban, is asking a Tuscaloosa County judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging she injured a sorority sister in a fight stemming from a Facebook post.

The latest controversy in the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce stems from reports featured in the National Enquirer. The tabloid labels Cruise a monster who subjected Holmes to a house of horrors during their five-year marriage.

According to recent reports, Sprint variant of the Samsung Galaxy S3 was about to receive an OTA (over-the-air) update that would disable the universal search functionality on the handset. The update means that users of the Sprint Galaxy S3 won't be able to use the Google search bar on the homescreen to find their apps, contacts and other data. Only web-based results will return when they search with that method.

Ammons was recently given a vote of no confidence by the school's board of trustees and has been criticized for mishandling the school's anti-hazing policies.

Mac Miller is facing a $10 million lawsuit from Lord Finesse, who is claiming the 20-year-old rapper stole the instrumental from his 1995 hit Hip 2 Da Game to launch his hip-hop career, and the two entertainers have taken to Twitter to explain their sides of the beef.

Peri & Sons Farms has agreed to pay a record $2.3 million in back wages to 1,365 foreign seasonal agricultural laborers who had worked for the Yerington, Nev.-based onion grower under the H-2A visa program.

Nadya Suleman, better known as Ocotmom, is reportedly being sued for backing out of a deal that had her set to dance at a Florida strip club. According to USAToday, the mother of 14 is now facing a lawsuit after she doubled back on a signed contract that said she would dance topless in eight shows at T's Lounge in West Palm Beach.

The tenants at Fred Wigg filed a lawsuit to prevent the installation, citing, among other things, that they themselves would become the target of terrorists.

After a long feud with FunnyJunk regarding alleged content stealing, Matthew Inman who founded a webcomic called The Oatmeal has held up his end of the deal by posting photos of the bags of money he raised for charity, having surpassed his monetary goal. As promised, 29-year-old Inman posted photos of the $211,223.04 in cash he raised through the help of supporters in the midst of controversy.

The tech world has been filled with high-profile lawsuits over the past week. Just as Internet giants Yahoo and Facebook settled their differences over alleged patent infringement, Apple is the latest company hit with a patent-related lawsuit.

The company looks to be on the way back up after the Qwikster debacle last year.

The actors from Happy Days had claimed that CBS owed them back pay from DVD sales and other worldwide merchandise. The case was one of a series of recent legal spats involving former television stars who have sued for such pay.

The sporting goods chain Academy is suing the private security firm Academi -- the controversial defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater -- for trademark infringement.

Broadcasters must now post political advertisement information online for public inspection by Aug. 2 -- but some of them can still skirt the rule.

Government subsidies for sugar farmers are facing fresh opposition, despite the farmers' successful efforts to defeat a recent bid to eliminate the subsidies that opponents argue endangers public health, reduces employment and costs consumers and businesses billions of dollars.

The alleged VD clause in the Jersey Shore cast members' contract raises an important question about how much TV networks should be allowed to divorce themselves from the physical and mental well-being of their cast members and contestants.