Tag: Lawsuit

The Sindh High Court (SHC) admitted for hearing on Saturday the defamation lawsuit filed by Dr Farooq Sattar, Deputy Convener of the Muttahida Qaumi...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik did not take any amount from Intelligence Bureau (IB), Interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. The statement of the spokesman came...

India’s army chief on Friday withdrew a lawsuit in which he had sought a change in his birth date that would have let him...

Veena Malik has filed a lawsuit of Rs. 100,000,000 (Indian currency) against "For Him Magazine" (FHM) for publishing nude photos of the actress. A legal...

A Kabbalah lawsuit filed earlier this year has alleged that Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s marriage is not legal. Amidst all the charges of...

The word “tweet” is to become a registered trademark of the micro-blogging website Twitter, company executives have said. They said Twitter had resolved a...

Rapper Lil Wayne has been slapped with a $15 million (9.2 million pounds) lawsuit by a Georgia company that claims he stole the song...

Rapper Dr  Dre has ended a legal battle over digital sales of his iconic album ‘The Chronic’ after settling on the amount of damages...

Paris Hilton is holding $60,000 of jewelry that does not belong to her and should give it back, a new lawsuit contends. A German insurer, Allianz SE, has sued the celebrity socialite and heiress to the Hilton Hotels fortune, saying she has ignored several attempts to recover the borrowed jewels.
According to an April 6 complaint filed in a New York state court, Hilton borrowed the jewelry in 2007 from the Manhattan jeweler Damiani, promising to store it in a safe or vault when

NEW YORK - Paris Hilton is holding $60,000 of jewelry that does not belong to her and should give it back, a new lawsuit contends.
A German insurer, Allianz SE , has sued the celebrity socialite and heiress to the Hilton Hotels fortune, saying she has ignored several attempts to recover the borrowed jewels.

LOS ANGELES - 'Scream 4' will hit theaters on April 15 without the specter of a lawsuit hovering over the horror sequel. Distributor the Weinstein Co. has paid to settle a $3 million lawsuit filed by producer Cathy Konrad, who claimed she was booted from the fourth installment on the franchise after it was developed behind her back.
Terms of the settlement, which was reached months ago but has gone unreported until now, have not been disclosed. However, sources reveal that

NEW YORK - A federal judge in Pennsylvania has tossed out an author's $100 million lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey for violating the copyright in the political booklet, 'How America Elects Her Presidents.'
Charles Harris claimed in a lawsuit that in 2008, as Winfrey began supporting Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Harris sent 10 copies of his booklet to 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in hopes of gaining publicity. He followed up with several inquiries. Harris got no response, but

LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love's 140 character Twitter rants against a fashion designer are costing her more than $430,000, an attorney says. The singer has settled a lawsuit filed by Dawn Simorangkir, who sued the Hole frontwoman in March 2009 accusing her of making false statements about the designer and her past in a series of postings on the microblogging site Twitter and Love's Myspace blog.
The settlement was confirmed by Simorangkir's attorney, Bryan J. Freedman. The

NEW YORK - A management team that claims they helped put the $ in Ke$ha is apparently asking for an immediate-and enormous-return on its inve$tment. The suit was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by DAS Communications, in which they define the artist born KeshaSebert as "a very young and inexperienced artist whose 'star' may not continue to rise."
Court papers show that the company is seeking $14 million in damages from Sebert, and an additional $12 million from super-producer Dr.

LOS ANGELES - Was U.S. network Fox deceitful in the creation of its hit show "Lie to Me?"
John Gertz Prods. says it acquired in 2005 the screen rights to the novel "The Interview Room," by Roderick Anscombe, about a psychiatrist and expert in detecting lies who confronts a challenging patient.
The book was turned into a screenplay entitled "Lie to Lie," according to a complaint filed in LA Superior Court. In September, 2007, JPG and Anscombe say they pitched the project to

Nicolette Sheridan has altered her lawsuit against 'Desperate Housewives' creator Marc Cherry again, dropping more allegations aimed at her former boss. The actress sued Cherry last April over claims he slapped her in the face when she expressed an opinion about his script, and fired her after she complained to producers.
Last month, Sheridan agreed to remove accusations of intentional infliction of emotional distress, as part of a deal to avoid undergoing a physical and

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday said it would fight a US lawsuit against the ISI as well as its present and past directors general.
"The government of Pakistan has taken a firm decision to strongly contest the suit filed against the ISI, its present and past directors general," Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said. "The government of Pakistan and its embassy in Washington shall defend the legal suit on behalf of the ISI and its directors general fully and properly."