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The Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit against nine companies over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A California mother and The Center for Science in the Public Interest have sued McDonald's Corp. trying to get the fast-food chain to stop using toys to market meals to young children....

Mark Madoff was feeling increasingly despondent about his worsening legal situation in the days leading up to his death. But the trustee recovering assets for victims of his father's Ponzi scheme says the suits will continue.

The trustee seeking to recover money for investors who lost billions of dollars in jailed financier Bernard Madoff's fraud has filed civil charges for some nearly $20 billion.

Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued....

The trustee seeking to recover money for defrauded Bernard Madoff investors said he filed 40 lawsuits on Friday, including several against relatives of the convicted money manager.

The trustee seeking to recover money for defrauded Bernard Madoff investors has sued UBS  and others for more than $2 billion, accusing them of collaborating in the Ponzi scheme.

Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, the fugitive former chief executive of Comverse Technology Inc, agreed to pay nearly $54 million to resolve civil litigation brought by the U.S. government over the backdating of stock options, court papers show.

Actor Charlie Sheen's attorney went on the offensive defending his client Monday morning, hours before an adult film actress is set to speak out about a reportedly violent night involving Sheen at a New York hotel.

The publisher of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of "America By Heart: Reflections ...