'Tis the season for weddings and wedding court stories: Besides the terminal leukemia-faking bride from upstate, there's the story of Steven Silverstein, who says that his ex-fiancee broke their engagement TWICE and also left him with tens of thousands in bills. Of course, Silverstein is suing. more ›

Back in 2006 two former waitresses at the Sutton Place Bar & Restaurant sued their former employers for $15 million claiming they'd been fired for complaining about a policy there that essentially came down to "no fatties allowed." Now, after years of legal wrangling, the pair's suit has been given the go-ahead to go before a jury. more ›

Yesterday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan led 43 Catholic groups in filing 12 federal lawsuits against the White House's birth control mandate, requiring religious institutions' insurance plans to cover birth control. Today, Dolan appeared on CBS This Morning to further his case that the White House is "strangling" them. more ›

Maybe we should be working for Time Warner Cable—sounds like you can stare at sexy pictures there all the live long day. (Wait, we already get paid to do that.) At least according to one ex-employee, Keith Reid, you can. He has reportedly filed a $2 million lawsuit against TWC claiming that it ignored his complaints regarding his coworker's penchant for porn. And then, he says, they fired him for complaining. more ›

Back in the summer of 2009, the Tony Awards got dangerous when Poison lead singer Bret Michaels was clotheslined by a descending piece of scenery. Cut to present day—Michaels and the Tonys have agreed to settle his lawsuit out of court. And the video of the clotheslining is still as good as it was in 2009 (see below). more ›

Aww, two weeks after a judge ruled that he could not claim diplomatic immunity in a civil lawsuit, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a counter lawsuit against the hotel maid who claims he raped her a year ago. Strauss-Kahn, who resigned from his position at the International Monetary Fund during the scandal, wants at least $1 million in damages from Nafissatou Diallo for "knowingly and intentionally making a false report" that ruined his "professional and personal reputation ... throughout the world." more ›

Dog is man's best friend, but is spending $60,000 in a custody fight over a dog too much—or too little? Craig Dershowitz is trying to get a puggle named Knuckles back from his ex-girlfriend, claiming that she kidnapped him when they broke up. Dershowitz has turned to a website to raise money for legal fees and says, "My ex has a wealthy family that is backing her. I do not. I am paying for this out of my own savings while also helping my mom through her medical issues. My ex is filing motion after frivolous motion just knowing that each time my lawyer responds it takes me one step closer to having nothing at all. It is a game I cannot win, but, with the justice system the way it is, it is a game I must play." more ›

Food companies not wanting to fend off lawsuits need to be a bit better about their marketing, it seems! After the maker of Nutella settled a lawsuit over its claims that the spread was "a healthy and nutritious part of a balanced breakfast" now we get word of another suit in the same vein. On behalf of all of us, Annie Lam of Daly City California has sued General Mills because—gasp!—the company's Fruit Roll-Ups and Fruit By The Foot products are not actually "made with real fruit." Or, rather, not the fruit you think they are made with. more ›

In the wake of the horrifying death of a 12-year-old boy, who was killed while playing chicken on a rolldown gate, a lawyer for the boy's family says they will sue. Alberto Ebanks said the Brooklyn apartment complex's guards were "asleep at the switch," not paying attention to surveillance cameras that showed Yakim Daniels and other children playing on the gate. Ebanks said, "They have blood on their hands as far I’m concerned." more ›

A probationary police sergeant was so upset over a poor evaluation he received from a lieutenant that he went and sued the NYPD. According to Michael J. Fox (yes, that is his name) an unnecessarily negative review by Platoon Commander Lieutenant Roger Lurch led him to lose a year-long paid leave of absence and a scholarship to Hunter College—and so sued to get both back [PDF]. Maybe the fact that Fox is gay and Lurch is not could help his case? more ›

You thought the donated kidney divorce was bad? An executive for a group of Long Island car dealerships is at the center of a strange lawsuit filed by a former employee who accuses her boss of firing her after she gave up a kidney to help save her life. According to a lawsuit filed with the New York State Human Rights commission, Debbie Stevens, a 47-year-old divorced mother of two, donated a kidney so that her boss, Jackie Brucia, 61, could get a transplant. Not long after she was terminated, the Post reports. "I decided to become a kidney donor to my boss, and she took my heart," says Stevens, who probably has a great future as a blues singer ahead of her. more ›

Members of an elite NYPD gun unit frequently made bigoted comments about black suspects, including one Captain who regularly referred to blacks as "fu*king animals," according to depositions in a Federal discrimination lawsuit. One former cop has testified that before conducting raids at minority residences, Capt. James Coan would tell the field team, "They are fu*king animals. You make sure if you have to shoot, you shoot them in the head. That way there's one story." more ›

The 83-year-old woman who is suing Apple for $1 million because she broke her nose when she walked into the glass door at the Apple Store in Manhasset is speaking out about her lawsuit. more ›

Why does Apple insist on making their glass-facade stores so glassy? That's what one Long Island grandmother wants to know, after walking into a glass door at the Manhasset Apple Store. Evelyn Paswall, 83, is suing Apple for $1 million and her lawyer says, "Apple wants to be cool and modern and have the type of architecture that would appeal to the tech crowd. But on the other hand, they have to appreciate the danger that this high-tech modern architecture poses to some people." more ›

A Brandeis University student is suing his old Upper West Side prep school and ex-classmate for $1.5 million over an alleged 2004 bullying incident. According to the Post, "Eric Giray, now 19, claims classmate Daniel Dworakowski bullied him relentlessly at the elite Calhoun School and pushed him down the bleachers in 2004, when they were both 12, according to a filing in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday." Giray apparently suffered "serious bodily injuries" (like a broken nose, needing 18 stitches to close up wounds) and "emotional and physical distress," leading his lawyer to say, "To this day, he doesn’t sleep well and has problems with anxiety." more ›

Of the many lawsuits going these days between restaurants and waiters who claim they've been swindled by their bosses, the one against Mario Batali and his partners at restaurants like Babbo had the highest profile. "Had" being the operative word, since the lawsuit was settled this week for a cool $5.25 million. more ›

More bad news for the Mets: Federal Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that the Mets' owners must go to trial over fake profits earned from Bernard Madoff's huge Ponzi scheme. The NY Times reports that Rakoff "not only rejected a bid by the team’s owners to have the remaining claims of a lawsuit filed by the trustee for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s fraud dismissed, but he also decided that the trustee was entitled to collect up to $83 million in fictitious profits from the men. He said the exact amount would be determined in a 'subsequent order.'" more ›

A former Stonehill College student from NY is suing the school, claiming that her roommate's "disturbingly" open sex life drove her into a suicidal depression—and the college was derelict in helping her deal with it. Lindsay Blankmeyer alleges in the lawsuit that roommate “Laura,” was having online and in-person sex when she was in the room: “More disturbingly, Laura would have sex with her boyfriend while Lindsay was trying to sleep just a few feet away. Laura would also engage in sexually inappropriate video chatting when Lindsay was in the room,” the complain says. At least there were no roosters involved. more ›

The Navajo Nation is the latest group to file a lawsuit against Urban Outfitters. The move comes months after the tribe sent a cease and desist to the retailer demanding they pull the "Navajo" name from products. As Sasha Houston Brown, a Native American activist, wrote in her open letter to the store last Columbus Day, they sell what she believes to be "culturally offensive" items, like plastic dreamcatchers, artificial feather jewelry, and hyper sexualized clothing with faux tribal patterns. Amongst the items that are a part of their "Navajo collection" flasks and hipster panties. more ›

Last October, two young boys nearly killed real estate broker and avid volunteer Marion Salmon Hedges by tossing a shopping cart from a fourth story walkway. The 12- and 13-year-old boys were given lenient sentences, largely because Hedges reportedly said she "bears no ill will" to them. But her husband does hold the shopping center where the incident occurred responsible—and now he's suing the center for having lax security. more ›

Remember, last year, when Gloria Allred was defending two women for their right to trash their cheating ex on a website? Now Justice is smiling because a judge agreed with Allred. After looking an angry exes' web postings, such as "Lied and cheated his entire way through his 40 years of life" and "HE'S SCUM. RUN FAR AWAY," the Daily News reports that New York Federal Judge Harold Baer found the comments to be "clearly hyperbolic" rather than defamatory, "When viewed within the larger context of the website on which they were posted, there can be no doubt that a reasonable reader would understand the comments to be opinion." more ›

As you may have heard, the rich Park Slope crybabies who hate the popular Prospect Park West bike lane so much that they sued the city are suing the city yet again. They claim the DOT faked data to make the bike lane seem better than it is, and they've got a high-power attorney representing them pro bono, because those are the kind of perks you get when you're married to Senator Chuck Schumer. Their first lawsuit was thrown out because they filed their lawsuit after the statute of limitations had passed. The city had to spend $140,000 in legal fees to get that publicity stunt laughed out of court, and the meter's still running. more ›

Last year Urban Outfitters and photographer Jason Lee Parry got into some trouble after a 15-year-old model named Hailey Clauson was featured in an "X-rated" print on a t-shirt sold in the store. Parry was the photographer, and the model's parent's filed a lawsuit against him and the retailer in Manhattan Federal Court. Yesterday, about six months after filing, a Manhattan federal judge dismissed the $28 million suit, at least against Parry, who the judge said “is not subject to jurisdiction under New York law." According to the NY Post, this is because the photo was shot in California. Urban Outfitters, however, remains a defendant in the case. At the time, Blood is the New Black (who made the shirt in question), told us: more ›

Apparently the Supreme Court's decision is not good enough to the NY State Legislature when it comes to allowing religious groups to worship in city schools. Last June, the U.S. Second Circuit of Appeals ruled that NYC public schools can prohibit religious services, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, letting the Second Circuit's decision stand. But, still, the State Senate will consider a bill to allow religious services in schools. And the NYCLU wants to remind lawmakers why it's a terrible idea. more ›

A Manhattan tattoo artist claims that his ex-girlfriend has kidnapped his beloved dog—and now he's been forced to sue to try to get his "son" back. Craig Dershowitz says that ex-girlfriend Sarah Brega "took unilateral control" of his puggle Knuckles, whisking him away to California after their breakup. "You say it is an extraordinary step but I think most pet owners would agree with me. Knuckles is my son, my heart—you would fight just as hard to protect your own children." more ›