JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to drop almost all of a $710 million claim against Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's bankruptcy estate, freeing up more money to be distributed to creditors, Lehman said on Wednesday.
FDA officials filed a lawsuit against Mexicali Cheese to shut down until the plant complies with food safety regulations, citing that the factory had potentially deadly bacteria and had failed to correct repeated health violations.
A former unpaid intern for Harper's Bazaar has filed a lawsuit contending that the magazine's parent company illegally employed her full time without providing any compensation.
Vivendi SA has won the dismissal of much of what remained in a nearly decade-old U.S. lawsuit accusing the French media company of misleading shareholders about its finances in connection with a $46 billion merger.
John Goodman, a 48-year-old businessman from Florida, adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend as his daughter in order to shield his assets in a wrongful-death suit he is facing.
The former NBA star is facing financial troubles.
The newly proposed lines for the New York State's political districts came under fire Monday, as Democrats threaten to file a lawsuit that would ask a judge to intervene.
A hotel guest who stayed at Las Vegas' Luxor hotel died after contracting Legionnaires disease at the resort, it emerged Tuesday. The holidaymaker, who has yet to be identified by health officials, contracted Legionnaires after staying at the resort in December 2011.
U.S. Navy seals assassinated the al-Qaeda chieftain last May in a spectacular raid in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, near the capital of Islamabad.
Newt Gingrich is the latest Republican politician to be asked by a musician to stop using their songs at campaign events.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is in trouble as one of the authors of the hit song Eye of the Tiger has sued him for copyright violation.Gingrich has been using the Eye of the Tiger song from Rocky III as his campaign theme anthem since 2009. The lawsuit claiming copyright violation was filed by Frankie Sullivan for his Rude Music Inc., which owns the copyright.
The federal judge overseeing MF Global Holdings Ltd's bankruptcy appointed one law firm to represent brokerage employees who claimed to be fired unfairly, ending a vitriolic battle for that role.
The crackdown on rogue file-sharing and online storage site Megaupload intensified with the Feds announcing that the hosting providers of Megaupload will begin deleting files of at least 50 million users starting Thursday, Feb. 2.
An Occupy Oakland protest once again spiraled into mass arrests and property destruction on Saturday, underscoring the city's reputation for hosting some of the most tumultuous and occasionally violent demonstrations of the Occupy movement. That volatility reflects both the tactics used by Occupy Oakland and the Oakland Police Department's tendency to resort to heavy handed enforcement.
Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.
Shareholders of InterDigital, owner of wireless patents, got a rude awakening when it canceled its company auction only days after Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy after failing to sell 1,100 patents. Is the patent gold rush over?
The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus (RMBS.O) used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) and others has been declared invalid, according to legal documents.
Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.
Apple Inc.'s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, apparently e-mailed former Google Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Erich Schmidt in 2007, asking him to stop trying to hire an Apple engineer, a court filing revealed on Friday.
Stock index futures pointed to a steady open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.02 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.05 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.2 percent at 4 a.m. ET.
Mexican fast-food chain Taco Bell will begin serving breakfast, and not just to people who wander in at 3 A.M.
When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer confronted President Barack Obama on a tarmac and thrust an accusing finger at him, it was a small skirmish in a larger battle between Brewer and the Obama administration.
