lawsuits

A judge has finalized Allergan's $600 million settlement over the misleading marketing of its wrinkle-smoothing Botox medication. The pharmaceutical firm plead guilty to misbranding the product.

A gender discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Goldman Sachs Group, alleging pay and promotion bias against women at the Wall Street investment bank.

Carl Greene ran the Philadelphia Housing Authority for years with little oversight, until recent revelations about a series of scandals from sexual harassment to financial mismanagement landed him in hot water. But Greene's misdeeds may be just a symptom of the problematic culture of U.S. housing authorities.

It was once a model for clothing retailers, with hip marketing campaigns, steady profit, a high-flying CEO and products made in the USA. But a series of financial and legal troubles leaves American Apparel's future in serious doubt.

Thousands of Texas City, Tex. residents have joined a potential $10 billion class-action lawsuit against the U.K.-based oil company for failing to notify them about a leak at its Texas City refinery last spring.

After years of battle, the Federal Trade Commission plans to report details of an antitrust settlement with Intel on Wednesday.

Countrywide Financial, once the nation's largest mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle shareholder lawsuits. It's the largest mortgage settlement to come out of the meltdown so far.

Hewlett-Packard shares rose in after-hours trading after the company agreed to settle a lawsuit from the Justice Department, which claimed the company paid kickbacks to get recommendations for government work. The settlement will cost 2 cents per share.

In an attempt to recover more than $30 million from Bernie Madoff's family and the family businesses, a court appointed trustee filed three new lawsuits in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Thursday,

Now that credit rating agencies can be sued for issuing inflated ratings, they're refusing to allow their ratings to be used to sell bonds. Unfortunately, since some types of bonds are required to have such ratings, those parts of the bond market are shutting down.