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Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Ads
4:50AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $US5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy. More »
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Class Action Suit In The Works For Victims Of Social Gaming Scams
8:39AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users. More »
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Oprah Slammed With Mile High Lawsuit
8:12PM Andrew Belonsky | One of Oprah’s flight attendants wants monetary revenge for not having sex. Christina Hendricks got married. Jail makes Roman Polanski sad. And Blago and Trump’s hair wars will be television gold. Welcome to today’s gossip roundup! More »
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12:17PM Jess McGuire | In August last year I declared that I wanted Tania Zaetta to emerge victorious from her lawsuit against the Daily Telegraph, the newspaper who incorrectly implied that her attempts to improve the morale of Australian troops in Afghanistan had been horizontal in nature, simply so I could use the rubbish phrase “Who Sues Wins” in a post title. Oh, happy day! More »
Who Sues Wins: Tania Zaetta Settles Lawsuit Against Daily Telegraph
12:17PM Jess McGuire | In August last year I declared that I wanted Tania Zaetta to emerge victorious from her lawsuit against the Daily Telegraph, the newspaper who incorrectly implied that her attempts to improve the morale of Australian troops in Afghanistan had been horizontal in nature, simply so I could use the rubbish phrase “Who Sues Wins” in a post title. Oh, happy day! More »
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Manager Accused Of Sexual Harassment With Hershey Kiss Puns
1:28AM Brian Moylan | Sexual harrassment is never a laughing matter. Especially when the harrassment, as described in a lawsuit filed by a Coach shipping clerk, consists of a boss’ horrible Hershey Kiss and weiner dog puns. More »
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Google Will Snitch On Your Anonymous Skank Blog, Says Lawyer
6:46AM Ryan Tate | Julie Hilden is not happy with Google. The company was “cowardly” and “fence sitting” in a lawsuit exposing an anonymous blogger who badmouthed a model, the lawyer wrote on FindLaw. In other words, Blogger.com doesn’t have your back, namecallers. More »
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Ellen DeGeneres And Company, You’ve Been Served!
1:20PM Andrew Belonsky | Ellen DeGeneres was floating on cloud nine this week, when American Idol producers finalised a deal that made her the show’s fourth judge. Sadly, that cloud has popped. Her talk show’s being sued! More »
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Everybody Wants Google To Rat Someone Out
11:47PM Hamilton Nolan | That which we feared most hath come to pass: Mean, anonymous people are being forcefully purged from the internet, with lawsuits. First the skankblogger affair, and now it’s happening again! Sort of. More »
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Annie Leibovitz’s Financial Doomsday Clock Hitting Midnight
4:10PM Andrew Belonsky | Poor Annie Leibovitz can’t catch a break! An Italian photographer’s suing Leibovitz for allegedly stealing his work and passing it off as her own. Of course, that’s hardly the worst thing on her plate right now. More »
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