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The Los Angeles clothing designer Dawn Simorangkir brought a suit for libel when Ms. Love tweeted about the designer calling her a thief, drug dealer, and an unfit mother.

AT&T claims in a lawsuit that Verizon's commercials falsely suggest AT&T wireless has coverage gaps.

Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages.

Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging its iPhone infringes Nokia's patents, escalating the rivalry between the handset makers.

Bernard Madoff's investment firm had a "diversion-filled office environment" featuring a culture of "sexual deviance" and drug use, says a lawsuit filed Tuesday against companies that dealt with the Ponzi-scheme mastermind.

The franchise that operates the Miss California Organization countersued former Miss California Carrie Prejean on Monday, alleging in Los Angeles Superior Court that the lawsuit she has filed against it is merely an attempt "to extend her notoriety."

Three young Toronto women who describe themselves as feminist activists and "sex trade workers" on Tuesday launched a legal challenge of Canada's prostitution laws.

Court records show Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the United States.

Epic swindler Bernard Madoff's two sons, his brother and a niece will be sued this week for $198 million, the trustee winding down the Madoff firm told CBS News' "60 Minutes" broadcast on Sunday.

Investors in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America over the Merrill Lynch takeover are trying to collect "billions ...