The tongue of Miley Cyrus — more famous than the girl it's attached to these days — has slithered its way into yet another controversy, this time becoming the subject of a fancy new lawsuit...sort of. Construction worker Charles Nicholas Sarris is now suing ShowFx Inc., the equipment company that made several of the…
According to Reuters, Google has been ordered to remove the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims from YouTube, following a U.S. appeals court decision on Wednesday. The court case was the result of a lawsuit filed by an actress in the film received death threats after it went viral. The film sparked violent protests…
The makers of the ultra-addictive hit game "Candy Crush" had a change of heart regarding their plans to trademark the word "candy," which is probably a very good thing.
A former intern is suing the fashion house founded by the late designer Alexander McQueen over wages she says she owed for four months of work.
Adult film star and Playboy model Melissa "Midwest" Harrington has joined a lawsuit filed against Match.com alleging the Internet dating site intentionally used her image in fake profiles.
The breakup of a small law firm in Texas has revealed some gross and amazing details and none of it is pretty.
Lacy T., a Raiderette during the recently completed season, has sued the Oakland Raiders for a slew of shoddy business practices regarding cheerleader pay. The whole suit, which you can read at the bottom of the page, is a glimpse into the many indignities of being an NFL cheerleader (besides the many obvious ones).…
On Wednesday, the cheerleading squad for the Raiders filed suit against the NFL team, alleging wage theft and unfair employment practices. And you thought the worse thing the Raiders had to worry about was their shitty football season.
A Brazilian law student who's pissed about his apparently low rating on the no good, very bad dating/non-consensual objectification app Lulu is suing the company, arguing that allowing anonymous and disparaging comments to be posted about a person is unconstitutional under Brazilian law.
A complaint filed by the makers of Twilight parody TwiHarder claims that the teenpire movie series is chock full of racism and perversion. (What did I watch?)
Well, here's some scary-as-shit news from the world of "being a woman is really crappy and hard and dangerous sometimes."
The Beastie Boys are threatening to sue GoldieBlox because the toy company used a parody of the Beastie Boys' song Girls in their awesome video showing little girls using an enormous Rube Goldberg contraption to turn off a shitty princess TV ad. Along with Universal Music, the Beastie Boys sent a letter to GoldieBlox…
Another day, another bestiality lawsuit involving Jay Leno.
For an 87-year-old one-(huge) hit-wonder, Harper Lee has been in the news a lot recently, from that time back in early May when she sued an agent for allegedly “duping” her into signing over the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird six years ago, to her current lawsuit against a museum in her Alabama hometown for the…
As we approach the date of the implementation of the biggest, bulkiest piece of Obamacare and (if you ask a Tea Partier) THE END OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY FOREVER BENGAZI!, lawsuits protesting the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate continue to push their way through the the sluggish peristalsis of the court…
Bank of America has to cough up $39 million after settling a lawsuit alleging that its Merrill Lynch brokerage arm systematically discriminated against female employees, passing them over for promotions, shutting them out of lucrative partnerships, and otherwise blocking their pathways to professional success. That…
Last week, in a lawsuit, a woman named Megan Chereek accused Jimmy Sommers of Wildfox Couture of pressuring her into having sex in exchange for a modeling job. Today, we got an email from a Wildfox employee, informing us that Sommers denies the allegations.
Brooke Magnanti, the research scientist/former sex worker behind Belle de Jour, is being sued for defamation by an ex-lover, who’s pursuing damages for defamation and breach of privacy, and wondering (quite vociferously) out loud to anyone who will listen, i.e. the Mail, if Magnanti ever really was a sex worker.
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.
Model Marina Asenova says she became the face of Sally Hansen when her former agency, MC2, struck a deal with the company and kept it from her. And now she's going after Sally Hansen's parent company, the beauty giant Coty, for looking the other way.
