Investors have sued it and its chief executive for fraud, and prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation.
Andersen is trying to reach a deal with Enron creditors and shareholders who have sued it for its role in Enron's collapse, to resolve a federal criminal charge and to sell some businesses abroad and in the United States.
In late July, Lukoil, another oil company, had to stop exporting for several days after an investor holding just five shares of Lukoil stock sued it over its dealings with the state-run pipeline company.
Cinemark attracted criticism for demanding more than $700,000£575,00000) in legal fees from victims and their families, who had unsuccessfully sued it for not keeping its patrons safe.
JRR Tolkien's family accused New Line Cinema of insatiable greed and sued it for a reported £133m over its failure to distribute profits from the £1.8bn-grossing Lord of the Rings trilogy.
On March 10, the same day ONI filed its stock registration statement, Nortel Networks nt sued it for the second time for allegedly infringing Nortel patents.
But then Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement, and then Facebook sued it back.
On March 18th local banks holding the firm's debt lost patience and sued it.
Now that the state is being sued, it is belittling the extent of the contamination.
On June 4th eBay lost against Hermès, another French luxury-goods firm, which had sued it for selling counterfeit handbags.
A few years back, the NHS sued it for £90m, claiming it was overcharging for the indigestion remedy Gaviscon.
