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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The elder brother of South Korea’s Lotte Group chairman has filed a lawsuit against his younger sibling for alleged accounting fraud, his spokesman said Tuesday, reigniting a bitter family feud over a stake in the business empire. “We submitted a complaint to the prosecutors’ office on September 30,” Thomas Hong, spokesman for Shin Dong-Joo, former vice president of Lotte Holdings, told AFP. Hong said Shin accused Lotte chairman Shin Dong-Bin […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends drugged and raped a woman in her Los Angeles home hours after she visited Rose’s rented Beverly Hills mansion, the woman’s lawyer told a federal court jury on Wednesday. “Each of them took turns raping her, they don’t even know who went first,” attorney Waukeen McCoy told the jury in opening statements of his client’s civil lawsuit trial against Rose in US […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – A Florida man who claims Apple made a killing with his iPhone idea is suing the technology giant seeking billions of dollars. A lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida this week by Thomas Ross argued that Apple “hijacked and exploited” a design he came up with in 1992 for an “electronic reading device.” He is demanding damages of no less than $11 billion and another $10 billion […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has filed a lawsuit against Chris Brown claiming that the R&B star did not hire adequate security at a nightclub where Knight was shot in 2014. Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the suit also accuses the club’s owners of failing to hire proper security at the party hosted by Brown and of allowing at least one armed person into the venue. The […]
LONDON,United Kingdom (Reuters) — Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over his hit song “Photograph,” which they claim bears a similar structure to one of their songs, according to court documents filed on Wednesday (June 8). The copyright infringement lawsuit was filed by Martin Harrington, a songwriter and producer, and Thomas Leonard, a songwriter signed to Harrington’s company HaloSongs, in federal court in the Central District of California. The […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Families of six Malaysia Airlines crew members who were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago filed a lawsuit Thursday blaming the carrier for the tragedy. The suit accuses the airline of negligence and breach of contract and is believed to be the first filed against the company over the 2014 disaster, said Balan Nair, a lawyer representing families of the six Malaysian crew […]
