$2.2 Million

     SANTA MONICA - NBA player Shaun Livingston claims Steven Belser duped him out of $2.2 million in purported movie and real estate deals; Livingston also sued Belser's companies, Rock Capital Entertainment and Pee Bee Eye.

Melissa Joan Hart


     LOS ANGELES - Kieran Maguire claims actress Melissa Joan Hart owes her commissions for her work as Hart's manager.

For-Profit School Fraud

     PITTSBURGH - Kentucky cannot further delay an already 4-year-old case against the nation's second-largest for-profit chain college, a federal judge ruled, refusing to let the state intervene in the massive False Claims Act lawsuit against Education Management.

LCD Antitrust Case

     SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge refused to dismiss a member case in the multidistrict litigation concerning the alleged price-fixing conspiracy to raise prices and restrict competition in the LCD market.

Fox Sports

     AUSTIN - DDB Technologies claims Fox Sports Interactive Media violates four patents on "simulations of live sporting events."

Public Workers

     PHILADELPHIA - Four AFSCME union locals say Philadelphia violated a collective-bargaining agreement by unilaterally changing its Deferred Retirement Option Program.

Newspaper

     SAN BERNARDINO - A worker claims the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin fired her for complaining of "predatory" sexual harassment from its vice president of advertising, and that she isn't the only one.

Diet Supplements


     SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - The Environmental Research Center claims that Genesis Pure fails to warn consumers that many of its products contain lead, including Health Trim Natural Weight Loss Ionic Blend, Health Trim Metabolic Boost, Genesis Pure LLC Fusion, CardioClean, and others.

Reed Elsevier

     ATLANTA - A jeweler claims employees of Reed Elsevier subsidiary Reed Exhibitions, which hosted the JCK Toronto jewelry trade show, stole a diamond-encrusted gold necklace with a 40-carat emerald pendant and another piece from him.

Suing Citibank


     MINNEAPOLIS - Moneygram Payment Systems claims it lost $140 million on mortgage-backed CDOs that Citigroup pushed onto it as "investment grade," though it knew they were "junk."

Birth Defects

     MANHATTAN - In separate federal complaints, five women say Pfizer failed to warn them that taking its antidepressant Zoloft during pregnancy can cause birth defects.