While New York City college student Hubert Blackman was vacationing in Las Vegas he hired a stripper to come to his room. She gave him a lap dance and performed a sex act on him (illegally). Now he's suing.

Don't use the bathroom at Duane Reade — someone might be watching.

Martin Gaskell is an astronomer who studies quasars. He's also a Christian who questions evolution. The University of Kentucky decided not to hire him at least partly because of his religious views. Now Gaskell's won a settlement over it. Good.

Chinemerem Eze, a Nigerian national attending Brooklyn College, believed that her landlord had hidden a camera in her apartment. When she asked school officials for help, they shipped her off to a psychiatric ward. Then she found the camera.

Singer and prolific Twitterer Courtney Love has been sued for defamation over some badly misspelled threats. While the case faces an uphill battle, it also heralds a new front for libel law. Also? Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is involved.

A judge yesterday dismissed copyright lawsuits between appropriating "street artist" Shepard Fairey and the non-profit Associated Press over an image of Barack Obama that Fairey lifted and profited from. The judge cited a "suggestion of settlement" for his decision. [Image:AP]

Did allegedly sexy schoolteachers Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro have lesbian sex in a non-lesbian classroom? According to your brain, the New York Post, and a Facebook group, yes! But according to Brito, who's filing a wrongful termination lawsuit... no.

Two trainers have filed a lawsuit against nightclub/workout emporium David Barton Gym, claiming they were harassed and later fired because they're lesbians. We've heard of harassment at this gym before, but it's usually of straight guys in the locker room.

Courtney Love's highly-entertaining Twitter account, CourtneyLoveUK, has been suspended! And this just days after she was hit with the world's first-ever Twitter defamation lawsuit, stemming from a 2009 tweet-based rant. She'll just have to scream future rants at the help.

Do people take what they read over Twitter as fact or opinion? That's one of the issues of contention in a lawsuit by designer Dawn Simorangkir against Courtney Love, over allegedly false tweets Love sent to her 40,000+ followers.

Vanity Fair has taken a look at the case of Peter Daou and James Boyce, two Democratic operatives who claim Arianna Huffington stole their idea for the Huffington Post. That idea? A Democratic political operation masquerading as a news site.

In your disputatious Tuesday media column: the end of an era at the Village Voice, a settlement in San Francisco's alt-weekly war, 2010's final journalist death toll, and Judy Miller is still talking.

The fondling lawsuit involving the Epcot Center's gropey Donald Duck is going to court.

Placentas are nothing to be ashamed of. Four college nursing students demonstrated this, by posting photos of themselves on Facebook, posing with a human placenta. Their school kicked them out?! Say hello to a lawsuit, Johnson County (Kansas) Community College!

John Harmon, a diabetic who owns a marketing company, was pulled over after low blood sugar levels made him swerve into another lane. The sheriff's deputies smashed his window, Tasered him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Now he's suing.

A federal judge has ruled that New York's gruesome anti-smoking ads — featuring rotted teeth and organs — can't be forced into stores, siding with three tobacco companies who filed a lawsuit against the NY Board of Health. Smoke away!

A Texas high school softball player has sued her coach and school because, the student claims, her coach told her mother that she's a lesbian. Which is usually not how you want your mom to find out you're gay.

The parents of gay Rutgers student Tyler Clementi may sue the university for not preventing their son's suicide.

In the annals of weird things captured by Google Street View, some random Japanese woman's underwear drying on a line would not rank high. But she's suing Google after she was shocked to discover her unmentionables were on the Internet.

Last month, porn company West Coast Productions sued 9,729 anonymous BitTorrent users who illegally downloaded the film Teen Anal Nightmare 2. Luckily a judge just threw out the lawsuit. We're—er, these people must be so relieved.