The owner of an RV company that hard-bodied six-year-old Taylor Lautner is suing for breach of contract has offered to settle the dispute not in court, but at the gym. He's challenged the Twilight actor to a push-up contest.
The New York nonprofit that owns "Fashion Rocks" is suing Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corporation—the parent company of Deadline Hollywood, Movieline, and Hollywood Life—for ripping off the charity concert's name and brazenly pretending to own it.
California restaurant chain Claim Jumper just settled a lawsuit brought on by a man who found a condom in his French onion soup. That sounds nasty, doesn't it?
Notre Dame dismissed engineering professor Oliver Collins (pictured) last June. So Collins filed a lawsuit against the school for breach of contract. So the school was like, "For one thing, all those porn photos you took with our cameras."
Former Russian spy Anna Chapman posed for a Russian laddie mag, displaying her globular breasts and startlingly spherical rear end in photos and on video. Then she posted the pictures on Facebook. And now she's getting sued for it.
If you're planning on setting up any kind of online community for your business — and who isn't these days? — know that Facebook has begun suing to protect "the distinctive BOOK portion" of its trademark, starting with Teachbook.com.
CBS has reportedly paid a female former executive a roughly $1 million settlement in exchange for her not bringing a suit against Viacom boss Sumner Redstone for "verbal abuse and violent outbursts such as throwing dishes." Whoa, fella. [Daily Beast]
Warner Brothers cannot abide its cash-generating boy wizard's name being taken in vain. Especially when it comes to condoms. They're suing the makers of the Swiss condom brand "Harry Poppers" for copyright infringement. Google Translate, do your stuff!
When we last left the story about the upstate New York man who is claiming he owns 84% of Facebook (Paul Ceglia), we had concluded that the digital "contract" Ceglia had produced was probably a fake.
Oprah Winfrey's cable channel OWN won't even be on your television until January and it's already making all kinds of news, including a double-down on its investment and its very first lawsuit—for discrimination, of all things.
Weird billionaire Florida Senate candidate Jeff Greene is threatening a libel suit against the St. Petersburg Times, whose vicious reports about his employee treatment, vomit-caked yacht parties and sleazy real estate deals have demonstrated that he's one priceless asshole.
In your evasive Thursday media column: the WSJ is becoming more like your little hometown paper, Mediaite doesn't justify itself to anyone, an alt-weekly judgment upheld, and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck have a mystifying chat.
One of the three innocent bystanders injured when NYPD officers fired 46 shots at a man with a gun last weekend plans to sue the city, claiming cops engaged in "contagious shooting." Which is dangerous, you know?
Do not cross New York gay porn impresario and neocon Zionist Michael Lucas by pirating his movies. Lucas' production company just sued 53 porn pirates for as much as $150,000 each. Sexy copyright infringement, ahoy!
A "whistleblowing cop" in Brooklyn's 81st precinct is planning to file a $50 million suit against the NYPD today, claiming the city put him in a padded cell so he couldn't blow the lid off his unit's crime stat corruption.
In your contentious Friday media column: freelancers say BlackBook's not paying them, a family sues Metro for misleading photo usage, WaPoCo makes money (no thanks to the newspaper), and a bidder for Newsweek says he was ignored.
In your scraggly Thursday media column: CNN is proud of odd things, the Glenn Beck boycott is a failure, a lawsuit against Interview magazine, and Moe Tkacik takes DC.
A right wing advocacy group founded by radical cleric Pat Robertson yesterday sued New York over the Islamic center near Ground Zero because the city "allowed the intended use of the building and political considerations to taint the deliberative process."
The New York designer suing for control of Facebook says he has evidence gleaned from more than a year's worth of emails with founder Mark Zuckerberg. But the magic mushroom enthusiast might just be tripping.