September 3, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend against class-action lawsuits, in a case it will review in the term that starts on Oct. …
August 31, 2012
Ford Motor Co has been sued for allegedly infringing a patent that covers a fuel-injection system it uses in its top-selling F-150 truck. According to a federal complaint made public on Thursday, TMC Fuel Injection System LLC of Wayne, Pennsylvania, …
August 30, 2012
Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay $590 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit accusing it of hiding tens of billions of dollars of toxic mortgage assets, one of the largest settlements stemming from the global financial crisis. The agreement resolves claims …
August 15, 2012
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and other bank officials won the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing them of tolerating poor mortgage practices and quitting a federal bailout program early to boost executive pay. U.S. District Judge …
August 7, 2012
New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip Standard Chartered Plc of its state banking license, saying the British bank was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions tied to Iran, in violation of U.S. law. The New …
August 1, 2012
Allen Stanford’s U.S. court-appointed receiver may keep control of the process to collect and distribute the convicted Ponzi schemer’s assets to victims, defeating a bid by Caribbean liquidators, a U.S. federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge David Godbey in …
July 25, 2012
Apple Inc. claims it is entitled to $2.525 billion of damages in its high-stakes battle against Samsung Electronics Co over patents for technology used in smartphones and tablets, such as the iPhone and iPad. The estimate was revealed in a …
June 11, 2012
A shoe store clerk who was fired after inadvertently giving a receipt containing a racial slur to a black customer has the right to sue her former employer for defamation, a federal appeals court ruled. Friday’s decision by the 8th …
May 29, 2012
Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s General Re Corp. and one at American International Group Inc. are in talks to settle a long-running criminal case accusing them of engineering a reinsurance transaction that fraudulently boosted AIG’s loss reserves. The …
May 22, 2012
A U.S. judge said Gucci may recover just $4.66 million in its lawsuit accusing apparel retailer Guess Inc. of copying its trademarked designs, a small fraction of the more than $120 million sought by the Italian luxury goods company. U.S. …