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 The book will not be published in Australia, Britain, and New Zealand due to strict libel laws in those countries.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.

The Munich District Court has imposed a fine of €201 million on Siemens, marking the end of the investigation by the Munich Office of Public Prosecution at the former Group Communications (Com) as it relates to Siemens AG. In addition, a final settlement has been reached with the German tax authorities.

It is common knowledge that a lawsuit settlement can absorb considerable amounts of time and financial resources, that is why some financers buy a part of the plaintiff's anticipated settlement to keep them from going bankrupt. If the person who has placed the lawsuit is victorious and the judge awards a settlement to be paid to the plaintiff, then a second set of problems arise.

Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that in the wake of prolonged and aggressive claims by Sun Microsystems Inc. against the company, Network Appliance has filed suit seeking a declaration that it is not infringing three of Sun’s U.S. patents and that those patents are invalid.

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