Playboy


     Shareholders claim Playboy Enterprises is selling itself too cheaply to Hugh Hefner and Rizvi Traverse Management, for $5.50 a share or $185 million, after rejecting a sale "that might have fetched as much as $300 million," in a class action in Cook County Chancery Court.

Music Management

     Country singer Brantley Gilbert claims Tantalus and its "artist manager" Ken Fulghum mismanaged his career and "engaged in bizarrely controlling behavior" that culminated with "Fulghum, completely unprovoked, punching Gilbert's father in the face with brass knuckles," in Davidson County Chancery Court, Nashville.

Amazon Kindle

     Discovery Patent Holdings claims the Amazon Kindle reading machine violates two patents, in Delaware Federal Court.

Liability

     Eight workers claim they were injured by toxic smoke from a fire at a Lyondell Chemical plant in Houston, in Harris County Court.

General Electric


     In 26 complaints, patients claim Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gave them excessive doses of radiation in the brain from a General Electric CT Perfusion scanning device, in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Charter School

      A minor student claims classmates at Kipp Indianapolis, a charter school, forced her to perform oral sex on them during a field trip, due to the school's negligent supervision, in Marion County Court, Indianapolis.

Porn Site


     Petroliam Nasional Berhad claims Petronastowers.net violated its "Petronas" trademark, for the world's tallest twin towers, by using it for a "highly offensive" porn site, in San Francisco Federal Court.

Krispy Kreme

      Krispy Kreme stiffed workers for overtime, according to a class action in Orlando Federal Court.

Photo

     Donald Harney claims Sony Pictures Television and A&E Television Networks used his photo of Clark and Reigh Rockefeller, without his consent, in their made-for-TV-movie, "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?", in Boston Federal Court.

The Doors' Drummer


     John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, claims Transit Editeur aka Transit Publishing, of Canada, is publishing his book, "The Doors: Unhinged. Rock N' Roll Goes Up On Trial," without his permission. Densmore claims the publisher made him an offer but he never accepted it, in Los Angeles Federal Court.