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Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in fraud by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.

Toyota Motor Corp was hit by a planned lawsuit by California prosecutors on Friday over vehicle defects and by renewed political pressure to cooperate with investigators on cases of runaway cars.

Wells Fargo & Co may be moving toward a settlement of Baltimore's lawsuit accusing it of steering minority borrowers to expensive home loans.

Google claims Microsoft is taking over lawsuits and complaints brought by third parties to stir up antitrust complaints against them.

The brother, sons and niece of imprisoned epic swindler Bernard Madoff have agreed to an asset freeze in a lawsuit brought by the trustee winding down the Madoff firm, court documents filed on Friday said.

Rap music artist, Jay-Z, on Wednesday sued an investment firm and a bank, accusing them of trying to bleed $3.7 million from him over a loan to help him build a hotel on Manhattan's west side.

French media company Vivendi SA is liable for damages because it misled investors, a U.S. jury found on Friday.

eHarmony Inc, which operates a website to help singles find relationships, said on Tuesday that it settled a class action lawsuit over same-sex matching.

Star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach fired back at his former employer, Trust Company of the West, on Monday, saying the firm had smeared him in a lawsuit it filed last week.

Star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach on Monday fired back at his former employer, Trust Company of the West, saying the firm had smeared him in a lawsuit it filed last week.

H&R Block Inc will pay as much as $20.2 million to settle a New York lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently marketing retirement accounts that caused hundreds of thousands of mostly lower-income clients to lose money.

H&R Block Inc will pay as much as $20.2 million to settle a New York lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently marketing retirement accounts that caused hundreds of thousands of mostly lower-income clients to lose money.

Iraq will help victims of a 2007 shooting file a U.S. lawsuit against employees of security firm Blackwater who were accused of opening fire on civilians, the government said on Sunday.

Mercer is facing a $2.8 billion lawsuit by the Alaska Retirement Management Board that alleges the human resources consulting firm made a number of errors in its work as the state's actuarial consultant, according to a New York Times column published on Sunday.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is being sued by an institutional investor who claims the firm is preparing to pay out improper bonuses.

Exactly eight years after Enron Corp filed for bankruptcy protection, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by investors against banks they accused of helping the energy company commit fraud.

Google is attempting to improve relations with media giants with its First Click Free policy that allows publishers to build pay walls around their online content. The search giant will also allow publishers to decide whether they want their sites to show up in Google News, Google Web search, both, or neither.

A former Amazon.com Inc worker has sued the online retailer, saying it shorts as many as 21,000 warehouse workers nationwide on overtime pay.

Bank of America Corp has asked a Manhattan federal court to dismiss an investor class-action lawsuit over its Merrill Lynch & Co purchase, including disclosures about Merrill's losses and bonus payouts.

The legal fight over rights to comic legend Dick Tracy is back on.

A Massachusetts man is pursuing a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Time Warner and Major League Baseball, among others, against all odds.