Nov 18 - By Associated Press
An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's fledgling grizzly bear population.
Nov 10 - By Associated Press
Metro's largest union has filed a federal lawsuit asking a court to enforce wage increases for bus and train operators.
Nov 6 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.
Nov 3 - By Brent Kallestad, Associated Press Writer
The state of Florida is suing online travel reservation companies over hotel taxes, the latest in a string of lawsuits nationwide claiming the sites owe local authorities millions of dollars.
Oct 30 - By Associated Press
Impax Laboratories Inc. confirmed Friday it is challenging the patents on Abbott Laboratories' cholesterol drug TriCor, and that Abbott is suing Impax for patent infringement.
Oct 29 - By Associated Press
The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed over the firing of an employee who was returning from active military duty.
Oct 22 - By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Writer
A fugitive accused of beating two teenagers on evangelist Tony Alamo's orders must pay $3 million in restitution, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Oct 22 - By Associated Press
Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones, is suing Apple in U.S. federal court, saying the iPhone uses patented wireless technologies.
Oct 21 - By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press Writer
A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a series of lawsuits filed by alleged Iraqi victims of the contractor once known as Blackwater USA, but is allowing the plaintiffs to refile their claims.
Oct 21 - By Associated Press
AT&T Inc. has sued the major makers of LCD screens used in cell phones, saying they colluded to raise the prices the carrier paid for 300 million phones.
Oct 20 - By Danny Robbins, Associated Press Writer
State historical markers outside the headquarters of Lufkin Industries Inc. tell how the company started repairing sawmill equipment at the turn of the 20th century and grew to make many of the pumps dotting the world's oil fields.

Oct 20 - By Samantha Bomkamp, AP Transportation Writer
The Attorneys General of New York, New Jersey and Montana said Tuesday that they plan to sue FedEx Ground, claiming the unit's classification of workers as independent contractors rather than employees violates state labor laws.
Oct 20 - By Associated Press
The Supreme Court won't let parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of funding Hamas.
Oct 16 - By Zinie Chen Sampson, Associated Press Writer
A federal judge has ruled that Virginia violated the voting rights of military service members and other Americans overseas when officials failed to mail more than 2,100 absentee ballots in time for last year's presidential election.
Oct 9 - By Dave Gram, Associated Press Writer
A group of dairy farmers is suing four milk marketing firms, saying they've engaged in monopolizing the market into which farmers have had to sell milk, fixed prices and created an economic crisis in the Northeast dairy industry.
Oct 9 - By Associated Press
A company that designs and licenses different type faces is suing NBC Universal for at least $2 million over the entertainment company's use of its fonts.
Oct 2 - By Jean Ortiz, Associated Press Writer
A Florida woman is suing an Omaha-area based brokerage and its parent company, alleging they failed to warn her and others about investing in what she says turned out to be a $2 billion Ponzi scheme.
Oct 1 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
Amazon.com has agreed that it won't remove e-books from U.S. users' Kindle electronic readers without their permission, as part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over the online retailer's deletion of a George Orwell novel from a high school student's e-reader.
Sep 30 - By Associated Press
A federal judge in New York is allowing the family of a slain graduate student to sue the U.S. government on grounds that it improperly supervised her killer.
Sep 19 - By Associated Press
USA Swimming voted to ban high-tech swim suits three months before the sport's world governing body is expected to do the same.
Sep 18 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
The founders of Internet phone service Skype have filed another lawsuit that may put a wrench in eBay Inc.'s plan to sell Skype for $2 billion to a private investor group.
Sep 16 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
A company owned by the founders of Skype has filed a copyright infringement suit against the Internet phone service and parent eBay Inc. — an action that could crimp eBay's plans to sell Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors.
Sep 16 - By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Writer
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being sued again over accusations that it violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing flood insurance without determining whether development would impact imperiled plants and animals.
Sep 14 - By Bob Christie, Associated Press Writer
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a proposed land exchange between the federal Bureau of Land Management and copper miner Asarco LLC violates environmental laws.
Sep 11 - By Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press Writers
Maker's Mark Distillery, famous for the distinctive wax seal atop its Kentucky bourbon, is seeing red over what it considers a trademark infringement by some liquor competitors.