litigation

Last month, IBM's Watson supercomputer beat trivia champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy. At the core of Watson's success was something called Semantic Analysis Technology, and if you want to make your own Jeopardy bet, put some money on the companies that supply it.

Just as rumors of a merger with Borders Books began to fade, the bookseller is once again in the spotlight as a major stakeholder, Aletheia Research and Management, is embroiled in legal troubles and an SEC investigation.

It's hot outside, but the ice cream business is preparing for a blizzard. Upstart Yogubliz' Blizz Frozen Yogurt faces a legal challenge from Dairy Queen that the Blizz name is too close to Dairy Queen's own Blizzard dessert.

The Federal Trade Commission delayed for the fifth time enforcement of a new rule intended to minimize the risk of identity theft across industries which lend money but are not banks, following objections from the American Medical Association and other physicians groups. The regulation, known as...

We've warned you about this before: If you rack up big credit card debts, it's perfectly legal for those credit card companies -- or the debt collection firms they sell the debts to after they've been written off -- to sue you to try and reclaim what you owe them. What happens then is unsettling:...

It's hard to ignore the fact that mergers-and-acquisitions activity has jumped dramatically recently. Although we're not even halfway through November, 214 deals have already been announced for a total deal value of $67.1 billion according to Thomson Reuters. By far the biggest one was Berkshire...

A busy secretary at PepsiCo who neglected to turn over legal documents to her boss has caused a $1.26 billion default judgment to be levied against the company. The Honorable Jacqueline R. Erwin, a judge in the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial Circuit, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, awarded the...

Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli have a lot in common. They are both billionaires, racing sailors, and, oh yeah, they both want to control where the America's Cup is held when it begins in February 2010. Ellison's Golden Gate Yacht Club scored a small victory over Bertarelli's...

Shooting grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park is no longer allowed. Period. A U.S. District Court ruling has required the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to put the iconic animal back on the Endangered Species Act protected list. The decision earlier this week is a huge victory for...

Someone needs to remind R. Allen Stanford that he isn't rich any more. Getting ready to stand trial for a variety of hefty charges, he wanted a strong attorney, particularly Robert Luskin, the Washington-based legal guru who represented Karl Rove. Instead, he's been appointed a federal public...