# Lawsuit

All time

Italian village to sue Charlie Hebdo over "tactless" earthquake cartoons

A series of cartoons depicting Italians crushed under plates of pasta appeared in the French satirical weekly following last month’s earthquake which killed nearly 300 people.

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Sep 13th 2016, 9:09 AM

# Lawsuit

Melania Trump to sue the Daily Mail for $150 million for claiming she worked as an escort

She is being represented by the same man who brought website Gawker to its knees via a lawsuit filed by Hulk Hogan.

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Sep 2nd 2016, 7:23 AM

# wrongful death lawsuit

Parents of two men killed in Benghazi attack sue Hillary Clinton

The lawsuit blames their deaths on Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information on her private email server.

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Aug 9th 2016, 3:17 PM

# Dallas

Teenager arrested for bringing homemade clock to school to sue

The boy brought the clock to his school in Dallas and was later arrested and suspended.

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Aug 8th 2016, 9:38 PM

# Battleground

A career designed to damage their brains and lives: WWE stars file lawsuit

The 214-page complaint which outlines the basis of the case alleges a host of failings on WWE’s part.

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Jul 24th 2016, 8:00 PM

# CTE

Dozens of former wrestlers sue WWE over brain damage

A lawsuit in the name of Joe “Road Warrior Animal” Laurinaitis and others alleges that WWE is liable for neurological damages .

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Jul 19th 2016, 12:37 PM

# Lawsuit

Cliff Richard is suing the BBC for €1 million over its broadcast of his arrest

The singer says he will take legal action after his reputation was “unnecessarily damaged”.

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Jul 10th 2016, 3:46 PM

# secret funding

Facebook billionaire who backed Hogan's lawsuit says it was 'less about revenge'

Peter Thiel said he made the decision to fund a team of lawyers to help find cases against Gawker years ago.

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May 26th 2016, 10:12 AM

# compensation

Families of victims of shot-down airliner MH17 to sue Vladimir Putin for €21 million

Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014.

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May 21st 2016, 12:31 PM

# Lawsuit

Walker who fell and cut her knee while hiking Wicklow Way wins €40k in damages

The judgement will have serious repercussions for Ireland’s national parks.

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Apr 15th 2016, 10:54 PM

# wrong person

Rapper sues over false report that he cut off penis after he was mistaken for another rapper

Andre Roxx says he had no way to clear his name because he was behind bars at the time.

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Mar 29th 2016, 6:05 PM

# Trump university

The 'fake' university and the $40 million lawsuit facing Donald Trump

A defunct online-education company is at the centre of a big lawsuit facing the Republican presidential hopeful.

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Mar 11th 2016, 6:20 AM

# Defamation

Cork fishermen to sue The Guardian over migrant workers article

The lawsuit relates to an article published in The Guardian in November.

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Feb 19th 2016, 7:06 PM

# outcome

Ribery loses lawsuit against journalist who called him 'scum'

The French forward was lambasted by the writer and labelled a “gangster”, for his poor behaviour.

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Jan 29th 2016, 11:05 PM

# New York

American Muslims sue airline for €10 million after being kicked off flight

The men were ejected from a flight Toronto to New York last month, allegedly because the pilot was “uneasy” about them.

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Jan 21st 2016, 11:03 PM

# Lawsuit

Bill Cosby sues women who accused him of rape

He accused the women of engaging in a “campaign to assassinate” his reputation.

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Dec 14th 2015, 10:11 PM

# putting the foot down

Judge rules out effect of 'high heels and a tight skirt' in Ryanair back-pain damages claim

A former employee’s case was ultimately lost because the airline showed they’d provided bag-lifting training.

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Nov 16th 2015, 2:13 PM

# Retracted

Fraternity wrongly accused of gang rape files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone

The lawsuit isn’t the first to be filed against the magazine in relation to the discredited story.

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Nov 10th 2015, 5:51 PM

# Massachusetts

Witch wins harassment lawsuit against warlock in Salem

Lori Sforza, a “psychic” witch priestess, won the case against Christian Day, “the world’s best-known warlock.”

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Nov 1st 2015, 10:30 AM

# harris faulkner

Fox News presenter sues toy-maker for $5 million for hamster she says looks like her

The company has responded: “Ms. Faulkner is an adult, African-American, human, female newscaster; the Hamster Toy is an inch-tall, cartoon-like plastic animal.”

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Oct 31st 2015, 9:00 PM

# Lawsuit

Taylor Swift is suing a DJ she claims touched her in an "intimate" place

She will donate any money won to charity.

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Oct 30th 2015, 7:44 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know this morning.

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Oct 28th 2015, 8:56 AM

# Lawsuit

Facebook is being sued over posts that "encourage the killing of Jews"

An Israeli NGO has filed a suit.

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Oct 28th 2015, 7:19 AM

# agony aunt

A woman is suing her young nephew for an 'aggressive hug' that broke her wrist

Quick! Get this woman a Best Auntie Ever mug.

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Oct 13th 2015, 8:10 PM

# ow ow ow

Man to sue airline after flesh-eating spider bite caused his leg to 'burst open'

Jonathon Hogg was on a flight to South Africa with Qatar Airways when the incident occurred.

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Sep 29th 2015, 9:15 PM

# Lawsuit

Paul Walker's daughter says Porsche is to blame for his death

The seat belt “snapped Walker’s torso back with thousands of pounds of force, thereby breaking his ribs and pelvis.”

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Sep 29th 2015, 8:07 AM

# Honest

Jessica Alba's company is being sued for selling "deceptively" labelled products

Honest, which sells eco-friendly household products like premium diapers and toothpaste, recently raised $100 million at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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Sep 6th 2015, 7:00 AM

# freed from jail

Brothers wrongly convicted of murdering girl have trouble adjusting to outside world

They were kept in jail for three decades and recently received a payout of $750k each.

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Sep 3rd 2015, 6:05 AM

# magnum... of water

Magnum found out by PI

Tom Selleck has been accused of stealing water – in the middle of a drought.

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Jul 9th 2015, 3:16 PM

# devil box

Chinese man sues movie star for staring at him too intensely through the TV

He’s claiming “spiritual damage.”

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Jun 10th 2015, 9:38 PM

# steve aoki

Famous DJ being sued over claims he broke woman's neck while stage-diving

The DJ said, “I would never want anyone to get hurt at any of my shows”.

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May 20th 2015, 8:38 AM

# Lawsuit

Gamblers in Vegas are suing Manny Pacquiao for not revealing his shoulder injury

People who purchased the event on pay-per-view are also expected to form part of the class action suit.

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May 6th 2015, 7:33 AM

# Los Angeles

Bruce Jenner sued over fatal car crash

A 69-year-old woman died in the accident which happened in February.

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May 1st 2015, 10:52 PM

# blurred lines

Robin Thicke and Pharrell ordered to pay Marvin Gaye's children $7million over Blurred Lines

The pair have to pay $7.4 million to Gaye’s kids for copying their father’s music.

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Mar 10th 2015, 10:22 PM

# Payout

Hopefully Lance has $10 million lying around because that's what his lies have just cost him

The disgraced cyclist has to pay back bonuses given to him during his career.

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Feb 16th 2015, 6:53 PM

# don't fly with me

Ryanair says beware of 'screenscraper' websites that use its name to sell flights

The airline has won a case against a site that used its URL.

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Jan 8th 2015, 6:25 PM

# more headaches

Sony Pictures is being sued by former employees over private info leak

Two former employees are filing the lawsuit on behalf of others in a similar situation, and described the leaks as ‘an epic nightmare.’

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Dec 17th 2014, 10:10 AM

# surfbort

Beyoncé is being sued by a Hungarian folk singer over Drunk In Love

That weird hook at the start? The singer claims that’s her.

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Dec 17th 2014, 8:04 AM

# see you in court

Here is why a Goodfellas actor is suing The Simpsons for $250 million

Actor Frank Sivero claims that one of the characters is based on his likeness.

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Oct 22nd 2014, 2:44 PM

# SCREAM

US family flees home after thousands of deadly spiders 'bleed out' of the walls

That is exactly the verb they used.

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Oct 10th 2014, 8:24 PM