Another day, another bestiality lawsuit involving Jay Leno. Read… 11/18/13 7:15pm 11/18/13 7:15pm

Vitaminwater is still in hot (neon-dyed sugar) water over its claims that its anything other than Obesity in Landfill (tm?) — and it looks like they're finally going to see their day in (class action lawsuit) court. Read… 7/22/13 9:30pm 7/22/13 9:30pm

Just when you thought the FBI, NSA and Verizon-teamed privacy infringement was the most egregious overstepping of The Man on citizens' rights, Nestlé, Mars and Hershey manufacturers in Canada have apparently been conspiring to fix the price of their chocolate products. Read… 6/08/13 1:00pm 6/08/13 1:00pm

Today, the ACLU announced that it is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a private prison in Meridian, Mississippi. The suit alleges that EMCF is "hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous." One example of the jail's dangers: this handwritten letter from an … Read on Gawker 5/30/13 2:15pm 5/30/13 2:15pm

If you’re a literate adult (or near-adult), you’ve probably read To Kill a Mockingbird, or at least rolled your eyes when some new conversational partner enthusiastically told you at a party that his or her favorite book ever is To Kill a Mockingbird, which personal revelation you probably took to mean that the person… Read… 5/05/13 12:00pm 5/05/13 12:00pm

There is no betrayal worse than that of a 24-hour foundation that purports to give you "lasting perfection" and then fades, leaving your spirits as abject and haggard as your no longer makeup-besmeared visage. Read… 5/01/13 11:55am 5/01/13 11:55am

From the same paper that brought us Samantha Brick, meet an even bigger intentionally-controversial shitnugget. His name's Peter Lloyd, he's a London-based men's issues journalist, and he's suing his gym, the Kentish Town Sports Centre, for gender bias. Specifically, for hosting women's-only gym time for 442 hours out… Read… 4/20/13 6:00pm 4/20/13 6:00pm

It's hard to be a lady in the entertainment business — especially one who's subject to the passage of time. The denizens of Tinseltown would rather fry off their faces with chemical burns and sandpaper away sun spots than look a day over 22. Youth is exalted, and old is invisible. Aging actresses are left with very… Read… 4/11/13 11:40am 4/11/13 11:40am

A 79-year-old former fashion model filed a lawsuit on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Lionsgate Entertainment, charging that an image of her shot by Richard Avedon for a Revlon ad in the 60s is being used improperly in the award-winning Mad Men title sequence. Read… 3/03/13 5:00pm 3/03/13 5:00pm

The jury selected to determine the fate of a lawsuit filed by the former Bengals cheerleader who famously slept with a teenage student against ooky revenge porn site The Dirty is having a hell of a time reaching a verdict. Apparently they've caught one of the worst possible cases of "Team Nobody." Can you blame them?… Read… 1/25/13 5:30pm 1/25/13 5:30pm

Tale as old as time: woman hires contractor. Woman unsatisfied by quality of contractor's work. Woman takes to Yelp and writes a blistering review of said contractor. If this were a movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Patrick Dempsey, the story would end with the two main characters kissing on scaffolding while upbeat… Read… 1/04/13 12:30pm 1/04/13 12:30pm

An actress has filed a lawsuit earlier this week against Time Warner, HBO, Cinemax, and production company True Crime LLC, alleging she was bullied and intimidated into performing nude scenes and simulating intercourse, sexually harassed, and placed in a dangerous work environment that violated AFTRA union regulations. … Read… 12/13/12 12:30pm 12/13/12 12:30pm

Former Price is Right model Brandi Cochran sued the show for harassing and firing her when they found out she was pregnant with a baybee. Apparently the right price to settle things with Cochran — who claims she was called names including "wide load" (original!) — was over seven million dollars. That's a whole lot of… Read… 11/22/12 12:30pm 11/22/12 12:30pm

A woman named Kira Reed whose abdomen fucking caught fire during a c-section two years ago failed to win a negligence suit against her obstetrician after a jury in Onodaga County (that would be in New York) state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Dr. Stephen Brown was not actually responsible for prepping the surgery. Read… 10/28/12 3:30pm 10/28/12 3:30pm

New York-based publishing house Penguin Group has filed a dozen lawsuits against prominent authors who received—and kept—large advances for books they failed to deliver. Read… 10/09/12 4:20pm 10/09/12 4:20pm