Suit says IBM dumped chemicals in New York state
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Neighbors of a former IBM plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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3M filed suit this week in Minneapolis, Minn. against computer makers Sony and Lenovo, along with a handful of other firms, for allegedly infringing on its patents related to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The company also asked that imports of the batteries be blocked.
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The countersuit comes after an October IBM lawsuit accusing Amazon of infringing on IBM patents.
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New York City can file a revised racketeering lawsuit accusing Internet cigarette sellers of evading the city's steep taxes through computer sales to Big Apple smokers, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, December 31  - In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, International Business Machines (IBM.
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p2pnet.net News:- IBM mainframe software vendor Compuware is suing IBM for antitrust violations claiming IBM used its source code without permission.
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Class action suit accuses the software giant of violating state's business code.
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Legal action was taken against IBM concerning its conversion to a controversial cash-balance pension plan. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will pay at least $300 million to settle certain claims in the complex lawsuit.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has -- again -- sought to have the pending legal claims by The SCO Group dismissed. According to a motion it filed in a U.S. district court, IBM argues that SCO has no evidence to support its claims that it appropriated confidential source code from Unix System V and placed it in Linux.
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IBM attorneys argued that Utah-based SCO Group has failed to provide any evidence that IBM allowed proprietary Unix code to enter the freely distributed Linux operating system and its &#36;5 billion suit making that claim should be dismissed.
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New York State sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday to force the cleanup of a decades-old, 17 million gallon oil spill in New York City.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.
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Lawyers for Compuware told a jury Wednesday that IBM stole its trade secrets as part of a plan to obliterate the Detroit-based company through unfair competition.
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San Francisco, September 30: IBM on Wednesday said it will take a third-quarter charge of $320 million to settle all but two claims of an ongoing lawsuit claiming its pension plan discriminated against older workers, in exchange for capping its potential
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By JIM FITZGERALD  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
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Lawsuit alleges the software giant unlawfully attempted to eliminate competition from Novell&#39;s WordPerfect and Quattro Pro applications.
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IBM said Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $320 million to current and former employees to settle in part a class-action lawsuit over its pension plan in a case that may affect millions of workers at many companies and nonprofit organizations.