The victims of the Fox News bedbug infestation are fighting back! Former Fox employee Joan Clark has filed a lawsuit claiming that she has post-traumatic stress disorder from being attacked by bedbugs multiple times at the Fox News headquarters. She says she was bitten by the voracious creatures last October, last November, and just last month. She even claims that her entire department was relocated in a futile attempt to escape the bloodsucking insects! The building owner and maintenance company are named in the lawsuit, and Clark has filed a Worker's Comp claim against News Corp. itself. The full press release detailing her suit is below. We've contacted Fox (which may already be planning its revenge) and Clark's lawyer's for further info. THIS STORY IS FAR FROM OVER.

Los Angeles-based law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner filed a class action suit against IAC property Citysearch, alleging the site charges pay-per-click advertisers for fraudulent clicks. The firm has won similar cases against Yahoo and Google. All the major search firms now belong to anti-click fraud coalitions and make lots of nice noises about the problem. Truth is, click fraud isn't much of one. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained during an unguarded moment a couple years ago, click fraud will never be that much of a problem because if fraudulent clicks devalue the worth of click for an advertiser, that advertiser can always pay less per click.

Google's lawyers suggest that Viacom's strategy in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube is to subvert the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's protection of websites and Internet service providers and "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression." The argument is set forth in a response to Viacom's amended complaint filed in April, which cited 150,000 examples of infringing content, which together had been viewed 1.5 billion times.

Former Dartmouth lecturer Priya Venkatesan famously tried to sue all her students for being mean to her. Now, as a researcher at Northwestern, she's probably less likely to have her academic feathers ruffled by entitled little Ivy frosh retching at talk of power structures. But she does still have to deal with their student newspapers digging up embarrassing things about her. Embarrassing things like... her senior thesis. It's called Montaigne and Macbeth: Rebellion, Gender and Patriarchy in the Renaissance. Of course.

The city of Chicago filed suit against eBay subsidiary StubHub for failing to pay taxes. Chicago alderman Edward Burke says the city loses as much as $16 million a year by not collecting taxes on StubHub's online transactions. In response, eBay said it intends to lobby Washington, D.C. to pass legislation banning the collection of Internet taxes as too onerous for small Internet businesses. The "businesses" in question here are the scalpers whose sales StubHub facilitates, not eBay itself. In April, eBay reported that its first quarter-revenues rose 24 percent to $2.19 billion. (Photo by veganstraightedge)

BookLocker, one of many print-on-demand (POD) publishers who are threatened by Amazon's move to vertically integrate POD with online sales by priveleging authors who publish with Amazon subsidiary BookSurge, has brought a lawsuit against the Web retailing giant in the United States District Court of Maine. According to the allegations, Amazon and BookSurge have done everything in their power to keep this under the radar — by notifying publishers and authors over the phone instead of in writing, and demanding confidentiality agreements in the proposed contracts. But the case really hinges on the power of the "Buy now with 1-Click™" button. Why should you care?

Here's the key section from the legal complaint against wacko famous girl Lindsay Lohan for stealing a college student's mink coat from a club in New York. She didn't just pick it up accidentally, the complaint says; her actions were "intentional, oppressive, and malicious," and the coat-deprived girl was "injured." Ouch, my mink is gone! Click to enlarge. [via The Insider]

Sxip Identity, a Vancouver-based startup that's built a tool for porting your Web identity across sites, may have hustled investors out of $370,000 by misrepresenting acquisition efforts by tech titans Google and Yahoo. Founder, CEO and president Dick Hardt (no joke) now says the company is insolvent, and has no plans to honor the convertible bridge notes which were to revert to cash or equity upon sale or additional investment in the company. Where did the money go?

Jimmy Wales's clandestine editing of a girlfriend's Wikipedia entry has done more than just bring the online encyclopedia into disrepute. It may well put the site's nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia Foundation, in legal jeopardy. Wikipedia has thrived in part thanks to a protection granted by the Communications Decency Act, which spares websites which merely host users' content from liability for what they say. But what if one of the website's officials moves to have that content edited? Then the protection vanishes. That is the legal argument advanced by Wales's ex, Rachel Marsden, in a series of emails with Mike Godwin, Wikimedia's general counsel, that she has posted to Valleywag.

Craigslist has filed suit against eBay in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleging trademark infringement, breach of fiduciary duty, anti-competitve trade practices and deceptive advertising. Why California? Because the state has some of the strictest antitrust and competition trade laws in the country. Craigslist is asking the court to award damages and force eBay to divest from the online classifieds site. Also alleged? That eBay was a big meanie. The best parts:

Yahoo shareholders have asked Microsoft's former nominees for the Yahoo board to consider joining a new alternative slate for Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting on July 3. But Thursday's nomination deadline makes it unlikely that CEO Jerry Yang and the board will face a proxy fight for control over the company. Instead, Yang and his fellow directors are likely to get new lawsuits — in addition to the 10 already filed. Angry shareholders "should contact us. We are trying to represent them," Mark Lebovitch, a partner at law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, told the Sydney Morning Herald. "If there are large shareholders who want to express to the board the view that they failed in their duties, we are the people to call." Gee, what's wrong with email?

The person who created a fake Facebook profile for Dean Tim Puntarelli of Roncalli High School in Indianapolis likely felt comfortably shrouded in Facebook's seeming anonymity as he sent "inappropriate" pictures from the account to students. No longer. A local judge ordered Facebook to reveal the prankster's IP address to Puntarelli; the Archdiocese of Indianapolis which runs the school calls it "identity theft." (Photo of a priest with a cane by Paweł Kabański)

Illinois-based iPCS, a wireless affiliate of Sprint Nextel, has sued the number-three wireless carrier in Illinois Superior Court. Its claim that the new company Clearwire, with a majority stake held by Sprint, infringes on that exclusivity agreement signed in 1999. The affiliate successfully sued Sprint over the Nextel merger, with Illinois courts awarding iPCS a victory in March. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel (as it is officially known) reported $505 million in net losses for the first quarter on an eight percent drop in revenue, thanks mostly to attrition in the number of long-term contract customers. That the company can't get these issues worked out behind the scenes, or at least settle these lawsuits before a punitive verdict is reached, doesn't speak well of the management at Clearwire's new parent company. (Photo by AP/Reed Saxon)

A still-independent Yahoo filed a 10-Q with the SEC last week, putting in writing some its current realities as well as its expectations for the coming quarter. Severance packages and other layoff expenses cost Yahoo $29 million in the first quarter. It plans to pay another $15 million in the second. Yahoo also now faces at least 10 shareholder lawsuits following the Microsoft merger negotiations.

Apple has settled a class-action suit in Canadian courts over first, second and third-generation iPod batteries that fell well short of claimed battery life. Up to 80,000 Canadians are eligible for CA$45 credits. I'd make a joke about worthless Canadian currency, except that it's now trading near parity with our own worthless currency. [Canada.com]

Harry Potter authoress JK Rowling keeps suing people! Her latest bit of litigiousness was a dispute about a long-lens photograph of her son, which she wanted banned from any further publication. The suit was originally dismissed, but she just won on an appeal. Next up: those filthy mudbloods.

Finally, some good news for the students Dartmouth lecturer Priya Venkatesan (we can spell her name without looking it up now! Christ!) tried to sue, or is maybe still trying to sue, or who at the very least will soon end up in her tell-all book. The writing class they took with her last semester is now retroactively pass/fail! School officials "reviewed the grades she gave to students in the Winter term and have concluded that they were not consistent with the feedback that she provided to the students." So said Associate Dean Lindsay Whaley, who will now be added to the lawsuit, in the court of make-believe. [Dartmouth Review]

Weather Channel anchor Bob Stokes is being accused by a former on-air colleague, Hillary Andrews, of being a sexually harassing, stalkerish jerk. For an extended period of time. Andrews says that Stokes harassed her predecessor out of a job, and then began harassing Andrews even harder, constantly hitting on her and asking her inappropriate questions; i.e., "Will you lick my swizzle stick?" Andrews is now suing Stokes, and two highlights from her court documents are below, describing some of Stokes' conduct. Also, a bonus clip: a colleague forgetting Stokes' name, on-air. Maybe she blocked him out of her mind.

In the late 1990s, employees of Rupert Murdoch's NDS hacked into EchoStar/DISH Network's satellites, or something, and posted secret security codes on the internet, "allowing criminals to counterfeit the security cards used by subscribers to the DISH Network satellite service." Murdoch was reportedly peeved that DISH Network didn't want him to buy them. Now EchoStar is suing News Corp for millions of dollars, and the judge suggests that News Corp will lose if Murdoch doesn't personally take the stand and deny involvement, which he doesn't really want to do. He's a busy man! Just last week he personally moved that weird single-panel cartoon about business from the Wall Street Journal's editorial page to the "Leisure & Arts" section. "Pepper's move could make way for a more Murdochian brand of editorial cartoon, cartoonists said." [ABC]

Now it's official: everyone involved in any capacity with the Priya Venkatesan affiar annoys the hell out of us. To recap, Ms. Venkatesan was a Dartmouth lecturer who decided to sue her students for harassment or something because they heckled her. She is clearly a pompous tool. Her students are also probably pompous tools. Now a pompous tool who writes for the Wall Steet Journal editorial page weighs in with an indictment against academia. Joseph Rago attended Dartmouth, you see, though he totally didn't like it very much and didn't even try very hard in his classes. Because of post-modernism. Writing papers for lit classes is just like "filling in Mad Libs," he explains. Writing indictments of academia for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, on the other hand, is more like Pictionary. After the jump: amusing student reviews of Venkatesan's class from an internal Dartmouth page. The kids didn't really like her!