In 2007, Washington lawyer Matthew A. Pequignot sued Solo Cup Co. for falsely marking patent numbers on its products. Specifically, Pequignot alleged that Solo Cup marked its products with the numbers of expired patents and conditionally marked patent numbers on some of its products.

A federal prosecutor ripped into media mogul Conrad Black and other Hollinger International executives Monday, saying "they systematically stole $60 million" from shareholders and created a phony paper trail to cover their tracks, The Associated Press reported.

American International Group Inc. (AIG) Wednesday sued its ousted chairman Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg and ex-chief financial officer Howard I. Smith for more than $1 billion in damages stemming from accounting troubles on their watch, reported Dow Jones.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to fine Nortel Networks Corp. for accounting fraud in the first test of a policy that gives the agency's commissioners more say in corporate penalties, Bloomberg News reported Friday citing four people with direct knowledge of the matter.

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that he was broadening his inquiry to examine the criteria lenders use when making loans, and whether they violate civil rights statutes, The New York Times reported.

Monica Goodling's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee will be at 10: 15 AM today. She will be testifying connected with the U.S. attorneys' firings. Was she acting on her own or was she just a good employee?

New documents released by the U.S Justice Department say Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attended a meeting last November that discussed the eventual firings of eight U.S. attorneys.