Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who entered the presidential race late and left it early, sued to try to get onto the Virginia ballot, and was joined by other candidates.
Citigroup had earlier sued Mr. Rajaraman in an attempt to recover losses.
Mr. Yari had earlier sued the pair, claiming in January that they had taken funds owed to their joint production company, Bull's Eye Entertainment.
On March 21, four additional women who said they were younger than 18 — the youngest said she was 13 at the time — when filmed in Florida in 2003 and even earlier sued Mr. Francis.
Robocast, which was founded by Damon Torres, who claims to have pioneered the use of automated web browsing in the nineties, has earlier sued Microsoft on similar grounds.
Perhaps HTC can take some comfort in the fact that it isn't exactly the first company to get taken to court: Klausner Technologies had earlier sued Verizon Wireless, Google, Apple, Skype, Comcast, AT&T, LG and others claiming that their visual voicemail feature infringes on Klausner's patents, as well as Motorola and Research In Motion more recently.
In the case, F.B.T. Productions v. Aftermath Records, a team of Eminem's early producers sued a subsidiary of the Universal Music Group, arguing that they were not getting the royalties they were owed from downloads at iTunes and other digital stores.
Even his own brother, an early backer, sued him for fraud and fired him twice from the company they started.
Mr. Cordray in two years in office has demonstrated a willingness to sue early and often, filing lawsuits against global financial houses, rating agencies, subprime lenders and foreclosure scammers.
Weeks earlier, Avery sued the sheriff's department for his wrongful conviction and their systemic negligence to the tune of $36m, which is a hell of a motive for that same department to try to dispose of him.
