Bishop Eddie Long, the homophobic Georgia preacher accused of coercing young men into sex, made students at his LongFellows Youth Academy carry "sex self-check cards" that offered alternatives to having dirty sex. Four men have now filed lawsuits against Long.
Mark Hurd is paying dearly to roll with Oracle. The misbehaving former Hewlett Packard CEO will give up millions of dollars to settle an HP lawsuit and continue working with fellow bad boys at Oracle. He's an eternal bro.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are entrepreneurs, twins, Olympic rowers, and Harvard graduates. They are best known, however, for alleging that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them back in early 2004.
Pom, the maker of wildly expensive pomegranate juice products, is suing the Federal Trade Commission for infringing on Pom's First Amendment right to tell you, the consumer, any old thing about how great pomegranate juice is.
Six people sickened by salmonella-tainted eggs have filed a lawsuit seeing class-action status against the two Iowa farms responsible.
"American Bad Ass" Kid Rock says he and his entourage beat the hell out of a man at a Georgia Waffle House in 2007 only after they were provoked. Kid Rock is being sued by Harlen Akins for $6,000.
The blowout preventer that failed to prevent a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is at a NASA facility being examined as evidence in the forthcoming Gulf oil spill trial. The rig's owner, Transocean wants to "examine" it first.
Despite being the best bank to work for in the whole wide world, Goldman Sachs has a few problems, according to a new lawsuit from three former female employees. Specifically: sexism, racism, and an undying love for strippers.
Put your lunch down for a minute: A Georgia man and his wife filed a federal lawsuit after they bought a box of cereal from a Save-A-Lot grocery store and, after taking a bite, found a used tampon floating around.
War ravaged Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to a group of Americans who say they were traumatized or tortured during Saddam Hussein's rule after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. What's so unfair about that? Oh, right.
James Clooney, an alleged "frequent patron of the Penthouse Executive Club" (a club, for executives, who wish to see breasts), ran up a $46,698.18 tab ("on beef and babes")... and never paid. Good strategy! Except he's getting sued.
In a lawsuit Britney Spears' bodyguard accuses her of sexual harassment. In it he claims she made "repeated unwanted sexual advances" toward him. This would have been a good one of those fake "headlines from the future" back in 2000.
Girls Gone Wild impresario Joe Francis is going to court over his former employee's new tell-all. But the book's publisher just came back with a motion calling Francis the "Douche of the Decade." (Sound familiar?) We've got the whole thing.
Think of it as Delta Tau Chi vs. Dean Vernon Worner in Animal House: Buttoned-down tech giant Hewlett Packard has filed suit against its scandal-tainted former CEO for joining Oracle, home to the most infamous skirt chasers in Silicon Valley.
In your terrific Tuesday media column: Simon & Schuster stands up for its in-house plagiarist, Jon Capehart pranked on the Twitter, the force behind David Westin's departure, and bad times in newspaper-land.
Former Daily Beast writer and world-class plagiarist Gerald Posner is being sued by Frank Owen, an author whose book Clubland was plagiarized by Posner. We have selections from Owen's complaint, filed in New York district court this morning, below.
The Justice Department has thrown yet another lawsuit at America's loony desert dingbat moon colony, Arizona. This one, however, was filed against obnoxious self-serving tyrant Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, for refusing to cooperate in a civil rights investigation.
Across New York City, our wealthiest restaurateurs are under assault from the poors—and their lawyers! Many celeb chefs you know and love from television are being sued for ripping off their workers. Where's tort reform when Morimoto needs it?
Weird playboy billionaire Jeff Greene, still bitter over his random, failed Senate campaign in Florida, will sue two newspapers for $500 million over some inaccuracies in their otherwise brutal campaign exposes. He's really not taking this loss well, huh?
Mark Zuckerberg said society has loosened up about privacy. But the Facebook CEO was talking about his users; now that he's a defendant in a New York lawsuit, Zuckerberg is calling for stronger privacy protections.
