It also hopes to dissuade other companies from suing it, either because Google holds similar patents to the ones they might sue over or as deterrence — if you sue me, I will sue you.
In that matter, Bank of America has argued that A.I.G. has no right to sue it for fraud because A.I.G. sold the securities to Maiden Lane II and so transferred the litigation rights to the New York Fed.
"When we get sued, it's usually just because somebody is cranky".
While Mr. Nordstrom said it was not uncommon for law-enforcement agencies to be sued, "It's a concern here because we're getting a lot more".
The retailer said in its statement that the next royalty payment to Ms. Stewart's company was due Feb. 28, and added that it sued because it felt it had no choice.
It is suing because it wasn't told about the secondary share sales and wasn't invited to participate until the very last one, and even then only after it complained (WPP was allowed to sell $900,000 worth of stock at that time, while the defendants made off with $17.8 million).
A pro-life group is complaining that the law unfairly limits its access to voters, and a slate-mailing organisation is suing because it objects to the rule that all campaign mailings should include the names of top contributors, as well as the rough amount (in dollar signs) they have contributed.All these complaints will be heard in October.
As Krebs wrote in an earlier post, the company was recently sued because "it failed to detect for nearly 10 months that a customer of its data broker subsidiary was a scammer who ran a criminal service that resold consumer data to identity thieves".
The company said it was notified in July by Universal that the music label was considering suing Veoh because it was "massively infringing" its copyrights.
But TMZ speculated that it's unlikely anyone will sue, because it's heard that once the pictures were leaked, the 21-year-old got over his anger because, well, he makes a good impression.
