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The community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a video that showed employees giving tax advice to a people posing as a pimp and prostitute.

The US Justice Department said on Wednesday it will adopt a new policy that could limit the government's claims of state secrets to block lawsuits on national security grounds, a Bush-era tactic kept by the Obama ...

Researchers estimate that doctors’ fear of lawsuits leads to up to $60 billion a year worth of wasteful treatment.

A Boston University student has been ordered to pay $675,000 to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music.

A US student who faces up to $4.5m (£2.8m) in fines for illegally swapping music files online admits he shared hundreds of songs.

In the last year, Ben Roethlisberger led the Pittsburgh Steelers to a Super Bowl title and solidified his legacy as one of the game's great big-game quarterbacks.

Jackson Browne has settled a lawsuit and received an apology from Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party over use of his song “Running on Empty” during last year’s presidential campaign.

Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to pay $21.4 million to settle legal action brought by black workers who claim the photography products maker paid and promoted them less than their white co-workers.

A Boston-area inventor sued Kimberly-Clark Corp on Tuesday, contending that the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers had violated his patent for a device to detect bad breath.

Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s no secret that file hosting service Rapidshare has long been a haven for distributing copyrighted content. However, it’s a question of principle: must a file hosting service, essentially unrelated to the actual content of the files it hosts, also act as a policeman, actively seeking and removing content that violates copyright? German court says – yes.