Lawsuit Over Elizabeth Taylor's Van Gogh Dismissed
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A federal judge has thrown out a  lawsuit against Elizabeth Taylor by the heirs of a German woman  who claimed to be the rightful owners of a Van Gogh painting in  the actress's collection.
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A US federal court threw out a 1.25 billion-dollar racketeering suit against British media mogul Conrad Black and other former directors of Hollinger International.
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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush Administration in the CIA leak scandal
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A lawsuit targeting "Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio and two other men for their alleged roles in a street fight over "Showgirls" actress Elizabeth Berkley was thrown out by a judge Wednesday.
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A European court on Thursday dismissed a legal action brought by the EU Commission accusing the British government of breaking its worker health and safety rules.
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by five authors against Eagle Publishing, the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington-based conservative imprint. The authors had charged that the company deprived them of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of United States District Court in Washington ruled on Wednesday that because the authors had contracts with Regnery, not Eagle, and those contracts included binding arbitration clauses, the lawsuit was invalid. âWe are very pleased with the judgeâs dismissal of the lawsuit,â Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery, said. Richard Miniter, one of the authors, said they would file an arbitration case next week.
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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed actress Elizabeth Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting on Monday, rejecting an appeal by descendants of a Jewish woman who said she was forced to sell it before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939.
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A claim of copyright infringement against pop star Beyonce Knowles is dismissed by a US court.
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A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., dismissed a crucial claim yesterday in the trademark infringement suit brought against Google by Geico, the auto insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
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A judge dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit Friday against two Aruba brothers filed by the parents of a teenager who vanished during a vacation there.
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A court in Helsinki has dismissed a case against two men accused of violating copyright law, finding that the CSS copy-protection technology they were accusing of circumventing is so ineffective as to not constitute actual protection.
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An art expert was unfairly sued after he concluded that his own grandfather had created a Western-theme painting bearing the name of a better-known artist, a jury ruled.
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Elizabeth Taylor on Tuesday dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for Alzheimer&#039;s disease or was gravely ill.
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Hollinger International&#39;s $US1.25billion ($1.7 billion) legal action alleging racketeering against former chief executive Conrad Black and businesses he controlled was dismissed by a US federal judge last Friday.
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A court on Monday threw out a defamation suit against Brigitte Bardot, ruling that the former film star turned animal rights campaigner was provoked into calling the host of Radio Courtesy "a little jerk."
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A federal judge yesterday tossed out Hollinger International Inc.&#39;s $1.25 billion suit against embattled press tycoon Conrad M. Black and other top corporate officials, ruling that the company
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A state court judge in Seattle has dismissed the third and final claim of a lawsuit brought by a violinist who accused the Seattle Symphony and its music director, Gerard Schwarz, of abuse and discrimination. The violinist, Peter Kaman, charged that the orchestra had discriminated against him because of his disability â a severe anxiety disorder â and systematically harassed him. The judge, Catherine Shaffer of King County Superior Court, previously dismissed the discrimination claims and last week threw out a claim that Mr. Kaman had suffered outrageous conduct and emotional distress. Mr. Kamanâs lawyer, Brenda Little, said on Monday that she would file a motion for the judge to reconsider last weekâs ruling; an appeal of the earlier dismissals is already pending, she said. The lawsuit was the latest chapter of turmoil in the orchestra: Mr. Schwarz has faced persistent opposition from players, several of whom have said they were targets of vandalism.