A personal assistant to the ShamWow TV salesman has sued him for allegedly treating her like his “love slave” and firing her after she rejected his advances.

Online auction giant eBay was hit Tuesday with a $3.8 billion patent infringement lawsuit. XPRT Ventures, which holds patents covering e-commerce payments and methods, filed suit in Delaware federal court against eBay and subsidiaries, including PayPal and StubHub.

Generic drug manufacturers are not insulated from lawsuits by an FDA approval process that certifies such drugs as the “bioequivalent” of their brand-name predecessors, a federal judge has ruled. The judge refused to dismiss a suit brought by consumers who were taking Wellbutrin, a brand-name antidepressant, and who claim they had side effects upon switching to a generic. The suit alleges that two drug manufacturers failed to warn the public about differences that affected the release of the product’s active ingredient.

A federal judge has once again certified a class action antitrust suit against cable television giant Comcast, declaring that the plaintiffs have succeeded in satisfying a new, stricter class action test imposed last year by the 3rd Circuit. The suit alleges the company set out to establish a monopoly in the Philadelphia market. Comcast and its would-be competitors, the suit alleges, struck a series of deals in which they “swapped” assets and customers so that each company would have “clusters” of markets.