The legal battle between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers has official been settled. Under the terms of the settlement, Carrie Prejean will walk away with nothing from the Miss California USA Pageant.

The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of Traveler Companies, Inc. by finding a lower court erred in overturning the approval of the company's nearly $500 million settlement of asbestos-related litigation.

Increased regulatory action at the end of 2008 has not added to the overall number of mortgage litigation cases winding their way through the American judicial system, according to a report just released by MortgageDaily.com in conjunction with the law firm of Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC.

Liskula Cohen is going to court in an attempt to unmask the blogger of Skanks in NYC who was mean about her.

A millionaire businessman acquitted of charges that he sexually assaulted nine women, seven of whom allegedly were drugged, said today that the allegations have been "a devastating experience."

Virgie Arthur, the mother of deceased star Anna Nicole Smith, is back in the headlines. This time she is suing TMZ and Anna’s companion and lawyer Howard K. Stern for trying to tarnish her image. No - it’s true. She thought she had an image and a good one at that!

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C,TYO: 8710), a major American financial services company, is still to face charges of aided and abetted larceny at a trial on May 5.

A lawsuit was filed against Chiquita Brands International Inc by relatives of five U.S. missionaries killed in the 1990s by Colombian rebels.

Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States yesterday amidst the potential for a US$100 million lawsuit against its publisher, St. Martin's Press. The book will not be published in Australia, Britain, and New Zealand due to strict libel laws in those countries.

Courtney Prince, formerly of the Ranger City Skaters, and Madison Square Garden have settled their law suit for an undisclosed amount of money.

National Instruments announced a new suite of software and hardware intellectual property (IP) to make using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in measurement, control and signal processing applications easier.

Microsoft Corporation withdrew the two remaining appeals that the company had pending at the European Court of First Instance.