A judge has dismissed a suit brought by the former owners of the company behind the once-mighty “Rock Band” video game, finding claims that they were shortchanged in a sale contract with Viacom to be “absurd.” But what will happen to Viacom’s mirror-image suit against Harmonix shareholders?

A federal whistleblower suit brought by two executives of an Atlanta-based mortgage company that accuses the nation’s largest banks of illegally billing legal fees to some 1.2 million veterans sidesteps the role played by closing attorneys who got those fees.

A Miami federal judge has certified a class action suit brought on behalf of about 800 former employees of one-time foreclosure law titan David Stern who claim they were not given enough warning of their layoffs.

A judge has dismissed a suit brought by a Muslim state prison chaplain who claimed she was libeled in a New York Post column that suggested she had “radicalized” inmates and incited them to plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and to shoot down a military aircraft.

Three Chinese companies will have to defend themselves in U.S. courts against a $2.2 billion copyright infringement suit brought by a California software company, a federal judge has ruled.