The state attorney general and sponsors of the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California urged its Supreme Court to hear a series of lawsuits...

Investors in financial products tied to failed Wall Street investment firm Lehman Brothers have sued in a Hong Kong court, claiming they were duped by the local banks...

Investors in financial products tied to failed Wall Street investment firm Lehman Brothers have sued in a Hong Kong court, claiming they were duped by the local banks...

Lawsuits against Merck & Co. and partner Schering-Plough Corp. related to their marketing of cholesterol drug Vytorin are piling up, and the U.S. Department of...

Texas A&M University regents have authorized the school president to settle a lawsuit brought by families over the deadly bonfire collapse nearly a decade ago.

Defense contractor CACI (KA’-kee) is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying it was doing the U.S....

New York City will pay to install a better security camera system in a Virginia gun store that will make other changes to its sales practices, resolving a lawsuit the...

An unpleasant Election Day scenario: A heavy turnout and a close election lead to a flood of court challenges. Legal groups are offering local judges new online...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defamed a Georgia sporting goods store when he labeled it one of several “rogue gun dealers” putting firearms on his...

General Motors Corp. is cracking down on workers and retirees who it says have improperly extended employee discounts to non-relatives and have cost the automaker more...

Managers at the Bob Moates Sport Shop were spoiling for a fight when they found out New York City was suing the Virginia store over the way it sold firearms.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes cannot be held liable in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lawyers for the families of four 9/11 victims are urging a judge to reconsider his decision to reject $28.5 million in settlements that he now says are excessive...

A federal judge has temporarily shut down a Web site that Olympic officials say is defrauding patrons by falsely advertising tickets to the games in Beijing.

When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relations hit, but assured...

The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to throw out one of two lawsuits filed by Kentucky women who claim that surgical care at a southern Illinois Veterans...

A judge has approved a settlement between families of coal miners involved in the deadly Sago Mine explosion and companies that made and distributed concrete foam...

Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states for alleged torture.The first complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District...

When Congress reopened the government’s discrimination settlement with black farmers, lawmakers budgeted just $100 million for damages. They probably should have...

Eight years after a 3-year-old girl died from exposure to tainted meat at a Sizzler restaurant, her family reached a $13.5 million settlement with the company’s...