Twitter sued for $50m for not naming authors of anti-Semitic tweets

Published on March 21, 2013

Twitter is being sued for about $50 million in France for failing to honor a court ruling which ordered it to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate speech.

LeAnn Rimes is Clearly Bored

By Ilana Angel
Published on February 19, 2013

Anat Kamm wants compensation from Haaretz for revealing identity

Published on February 4, 2013

Anat Kamm, who was jailed for turning classified military documents over to a reporter, is seeking compensation from Haaretz for revealing her identity.

Report: Justin Bieber sued for ‘assaulting’ Israeli bodyguard

Published on January 11, 2013

The Israeli former bodyguard of teen idol Justin Bieber reportedly sued the pop star for assault.

JONAH center being sued for false claims on reversing homosexuality

Published on November 27, 2012

JONAH, a Jewish center in New Jersey that offers therapy to reverse homosexuality, is being sued for allegedly making fraudulent claims.

LeAnn Rimes, Peace & Grace

By Ilana Angel
Published on November 20, 2012

Benjamin Reznik: L.A. based lawyer who takes on Goliath

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on October 26, 2012

Among land-use attorneys working in Los Angeles, Benjamin Reznik is better known than most, perhaps because of his success at suing the City of Los Angeles.

Actress sues California man behind anti-Muslim film

Published on September 19, 2012

An actress in an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to its production on Wednesday for fraud and slander, saying she had received death threats after the video was posted on YouTube.

Designer Galliano reportedly sues Dior over firing for anti-Semitism

Published on August 29, 2012

Designer John Galliano reportedly has filed an $18.7 million lawsuit against Christian Dior, the fashion house that fired him for anti-Semitic speech.

Lawsuit filed against haredi radio station for excluding women

Published on August 29, 2012

The religious women's organization Kolech filed a class-action lawsuit against a haredi Orthodox radio station for excluding women.

Families of murdered Iranian nuclear scientists file lawsuit

Published on August 15, 2012

The families of several slain Iranian nuclear scientists filed a lawsuit accusing Israel, the U.S. and Britain of being involved in their assassinations.

Adelson lawsuit describes pressure on NJDC to apologize

Published on August 9, 2012

Sheldon Adelson's $60 million defamation lawsuit against the National Jewish Democratic Council describes extensive efforts by his representatives, including Alan Dershowitz, to talk the group into apologizing for intimating that the casino magnate approved of prostitution.

Sheldon Adelson sues Jewish Democratic group

Published on August 8, 2012

Sheldon Adelson is suing the National Jewish Democratic Council for defamation.

Peace activist settles lawsuit with pro-Israel activist

Published on August 2, 2012

A peace activist and the man she accused of assault as she protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress reached a settlement on her lawsuit.

Hearing on motion to dismiss set in Hebrew National class-action suit

Published on August 1, 2012

A hearing on a motion to dismiss a consumer fraud case against the company that produces Hebrew National products has been scheduled for Nov. 30 in a federal court.

Orthodox gay activist sues cousin for assault

Published on July 3, 2012

An Orthodox blogger sued his cousin, whose family owns a large New York Judaica store, for assaulting him.

ZOA sued for discrimination, national president Morton Klein takes the stand in Beverly Hills courtroom in defense

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on June 14, 2012

Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein took the stand Thursday in a Beverly Hills courtroom as the final witness in a sex discrimination and wrongful termination case filed against the ZOA.

Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah’s father suing police

Published on June 11, 2012

The father of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah reportedly is suing police for allegedly murdering his son.

Conn. congregation, member settle lawsuit over non-Jewish burial

Published on May 17, 2012

A Jewish woman suing her congregation over the burial of a non-Jewish black woman in its cemetery has settled her lawsuit.

Businessman seeks new hearing in Coca-Cola lawsuit

Published on May 4, 2012

A Jewish Canadian-Egyptian businessman wants a full U.S. appeals court to rehear his lawsuit against Coca-Cola for using his family’s property in Egypt.

Anti-boycott lawsuit against food co-op is dismissed

Published on February 28, 2012

A lawsuit seeking to overturn a Washington state food co-op's boycott of Israeli goods was dismissed in state Superior Court. Thurston County Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee on Monday rejected the lawsuit that was filed last September by five members of the Olympia Food Co-Op.

Defamatory to associate Romney with Sikh temple?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 6, 2012

D.C. mayor to settle rabbi’s lawsuit over special elections

Published on January 9, 2012

Washington Mayor Vincent Gray has settled a lawsuit brought against the District of Columbia by a local rabbi over the date of special elections.

Despite lawsuit by former president, Modern Orthodox Shul hires Chabad Rabbi [UPDATE - VIDEO]

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on December 23, 2011

On Dec. 19, at a closed-door meeting in Congregation Shaarei Tefila’s social hall, about 60 of the Modern Orthodox synagogue’s current members voted to hire Rabbi Moshe Kesselman to lead the shul.

Jesse Eisenberg’s five minutes in ‘Hell’

By Lauren Bottner
Published on December 1, 2011

Lawsuits dropped after Apple drops ‘Jew or Not Jew’ app

Published on November 25, 2011

French anti-racism groups dropped lawsuits against Apple, Inc. after it removed an iPhone app called "Jew or Not Jew?" from online stores around the world.

ON TRIAL: John Galliano’s sloshed defense over anti-Semitic remarks

By Hollywood Jew
Published on June 22, 2011

Lawsuit seeks to block Canadian ship in Gaza flotilla

Published on June 7, 2011

A lawsuit filed in Toronto is seeking to block Canadian participation in the second international "Freedom Flotilla" to Gaza. Cherna Rosenberg, a 68-year-old citizen of both Canada and Israel, filed her case June 2 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice inToronto against the Canadian Boat to Gaza and Alternatives International. The complaint charges these groups with raising funds for and providing material support to Hamas, which governs Gaza and which was declared a terrorist group by Canada in 2002.

Larian wins round two of Bratz toy lawsuit against Mattel

By Karmel Melamed
Published on April 25, 2011

Appeals court turns down wrongly accused spy’s lawsuit

Published on December 21, 2010

A Jewish civilian employee of the U.S. Army wrongly accused of spying for Israel was turned down in his second attempt to sue the federal government. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday declined to overturn a lower court decision that dismissed David Tenenbaum's lawsuit. The judges agreed that Tenenbaum was subject to a high level of scrutiny and intrusion in his family's life due to the investigation, and that Tenenbaum's Orthodox lifestyle in part brought about the investigation, according to the Detroit Free Press. However, the judges said the issues already had been litigated.

Big legal trouble ahead for victimized charities and investors

By Dean Rotbart
Published on December 24, 2008

In the eyes of the American judicial system, said fraud investigators and asset hunters, some innocent victims of Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme are legitimate targets for government and civil actions seeking to compel them to disgorge any gains they derived.

Briefs: Krugman wins Nobel Prize, UWash cops sue for discrimination

Published on October 16, 2008

Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times, won the Nobel Prize for economics. Krugman, who also teaches at Princeton University, won for his analysis of international trade patterns

Kabbalah Centre sues spin-off Universal Kabbalah Communities

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 1, 2008

Legal experts said the Kabbalah Centre's claim would hinge on its ability to demonstrate that Universal Kabbalah Communities infringed on trademarked material.

French Jews to Sarkozy: Investigate al-Dura incident

By Devorah Lauter
Published on July 9, 2008

The organized Jewish community in France is publicly calling on President Nicolas Sarkozy to launch an investigation into the controversial television broadcast of an alleged Israeli shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy.

Lawsuit re POW swap involves L.A. family; Student writes guide for U.K.

Published on July 2, 2008

The lawsuit argues that any deal with Hezbollah must advance the effort to locate and free the missing Iranian Jews.

Food fight

By David Suissa
Published on March 7, 2008

Families of terror victims can have their day in court

By Ron Kampeas
Published on March 7, 2008

About 20 lawsuits targeting the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) -- some dating back to the mid-1990s -- have been held up in recent months while the Bush administration considered a federal judge's request to weigh in on the issue. In a Feb. 29 letter to Judge Victor Marrero of the U.S. District Court in New York, the Bush administration made clear it did not want to intervene -- for now.

Federation may face lawsuit over fundraiser Prizant’s firing

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 26, 2007

Prizant's defenders allege that his firing was for personal, not professional, reasons and assert that fundraising totals grew steadily under his stewardship.

French railway lawsuits divide plaintiffs and country’s Jewish groups

By Brett Kline
Published on October 19, 2006

Alain Lipietz, a French deputy in the European Parliament whose father and uncle were rounded up and sent to a holding area during the war, won a cash indemnity worth about $77,000 from the SNCF -- the railway is appealing the case. More than 1,000 people, both Jews and non-Jews, have filed similar claims since the Lipietz case in Toulouse last summer.

Persian voices unite in lawsuit against Khatami

By Karmel Melamed
Published on September 21, 2006

In a rare display of unity, a variety of groups within the local Persian Jewish community have joined to voice support for a lawsuit filed against former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Sept. 9 by seven Persian Jewish families in Los Angeles and Israel.

Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting

Published on August 24, 2006

World News; Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting; Young Quits After 'Hurtful' Remarks; Olmert Pressed on War Inquiry; Diaspora Money Heads North; Israeli Officials Face Sexual-Harassment Charges; Israeli Children Anxious After War; Major Israeli Writer Dies; Israel: Hezbollah Used Russian Weapons; Jewish-Owned Market in Moscow Bombed; Restaurant in India Named After Hitler; Annan Chides Iran on Holocaust Cartoons.

Suit Filed Over Police Shooting of Israeli

By Jim Crogan
Published on February 23, 2006

Police claim Deri was a suspect in a multiagency task force investigation into drug-trafficking, gangs and organized crime. But Jarchi insisted their claims are absurd.

Community Brief

By Bobbi Murray
Published on August 4, 2005

Community Briefs

Unfashionable Crisis

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on July 28, 2005

Dov Charney, founder, CEO and president of American Apparel, has been hailed by many anti-sweatshop activists as a pioneer in the fair treatment of garment workers in Los Angeles, in an industry notorious for substandard working conditions and abuse. But now, a competing, unflattering reputation is beginning to overtake his good press, as allegations of sexual harassment come to light.

Spectator - Rock ‘n’ Roll of Ages

By Liel Leibovitz
Published on July 14, 2005

"Litigation is one of the sincerest forms of flattery," said David Segal, co-founder of Jewsrock.org. Shortly before the Web site -- which originally used the phrase, the Jewish rock and roll hall of fame -- was to go online earlier this year, Segal and partner Jeffrey Goldberg were slapped with a trademark infringement suit, by that other Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame, the one in Cleveland.

Chabad Sues Russia to Recover Texts

By Lisa Daftari
Published on February 24, 2005

In a continuing effort to recover an archive of century-old original manuscripts and texts left behind in the former Soviet Union in the early 20th century, Chabad is taking the Russian Federation to the International Court of Law.

Talmudic Tax Write-Off

By Idan Ivri
Published on November 25, 2004

Few people are eager to pick fights with the IRS. Michael Sklar, now well into his second voluntary tax lawsuit, is definitely an exception.

Sklar is an Orthodox father with several children in Jewish day school. His courtroom quest: to establish religious school costs as tax deductions.

Community Briefs

Published on August 12, 2004

Community Briefs

Community Briefs

Published on July 1, 2004

Plaintiff Allen Estrin won a major victory in his lawsuit against 14 life insurance companies over their refusal to cover people who travel to Israel.

Jew Jokes Not a Joke

By David Finnigan
Published on July 1, 2004

A Jewish teenager in Ventura County has filed a federal lawsuit against the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), alleging that his high school coach and teammates repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks to him and that school officials were indifferent to his complaints.

Israel, N.Y. Schools Drop Weinberg Suits

By Julie G Fax
Published on June 24, 2004

Yeshiva University (YU) in New York and a Derech Etz Chaim yeshiva (DEC) in Israel have settled a lawsuit sparked by allegations that a former California rabbi made sexual advances toward students.

Court Clears Way for Suit Over Nazi Loot

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 10, 2004

"Iam thrilled that there is justice in this world," said a jubilant Maria Altmann, after celebrating her victory with a family dinner outing.

Court: JCC Parents Can Sue Gunmakers

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 3, 2004

Three families, whose children were shot by a white supremacist in an attack on the North Valley Jewish Community Center (NVJCC), can pursue their lawsuit against the makers of the weapons used in the shooting spree.

The May 28 ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was greeted with relief by the three families and by the mother of postal carrier Joseph S. Ileto, who was slain by the same gunman in a separate attack.

The suit grew out of the Aug. 10, 1999 attack by Buford O. Furrow Jr., a self-avowed anti-Semite and white supremacist, on the Jewish center in Granada Hills, which left three children, one teenager and one adult wounded.

Neighbors Renew Etz Chaim Fight

By Julie G Fax
Published on May 20, 2004

Despite continuing legal challenges, members of Etz Chaim this month prayed for the first few Shabbats in their new home, a house converted for use as a shul on the corner of Highland Avenue and Third Street in Hancock Park.

Community Briefs

Published on May 6, 2004

Community Briefs

Inmate Wants New Label to Avoid Hate

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 8, 2004

A Jewish prisoner in San Quentin is demanding that California reclassify him from "white" to "non-white," giving a curious twist to America's long-shifting attitudes toward Jewish ethnicity and race.

Community Briefs

Published on January 22, 2004

Community Briefs

Community Briefs

Published on November 27, 2003

Turbulence Grows in Weinberg Case

By Julie G Fax
Published on July 17, 2003

Rabbi Matis Weinberg has been a controversial figure in education for decades. The son and grandson of two successive rosh yeshivas of Ner Israel in Baltimore, a preeminent Orthodox seminary, Weinberg started Kerem Yeshiva in the mid-1970s in Santa Clarita, when he was 29.

Geiger Beachfront-Bound

Published on July 3, 2003

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