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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday sued Mark V. Hurd, its former chairman and chief executive, one day after he joined rival Oracle as co-president. In its lawsuit, filed in a California state court, H.P. argued that it was seeking to enforce confidentiality clauses Mr. Hurd had signed. (Read the lawsuit, helpfully posted by H.P., after the jump.) [...]

Washington Mutual must face a trial over who owns $4 billion in low-ranking debt before the bank can end its bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported. A United States bankruptcy judge has scheduled a trial of the investor lawsuit for Nov. 1. That date coincides with the first day of a confirmation hearing on WaMu’s reorganization proposal. [...]

Shareholders opposed to the takeover of the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group by Hertz Global Holdings have accused Goldman Sachs bankers of working on both sides of the transaction, giving Hertz an edge over a rival bid from the Avis Budget Group, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court. The lawsuit, which is seeking [...]

Bong hits, secret societies . . . what is this — a frat party or a Senate campaign? It’s hard to tell sometimes. The Kentucky Senate campaign of libertarian Rand Paul is threatening to sue GQ magazine over its story featuring a woman’s claim that Rand and a buddy at Baylor University abducted her and [...]

Forget the old, overblown Cleveland jokes — the mistake by the lake, the mayor whose hair caught on fire, the mayor’s wife who passed up an invitation to the White House because it fell on her bowling night. The Cleveland Orchestra is the real deal. It puts its host city on the cultural map in [...]

A lawsuit by an independent candidate for state Assembly in Wisconsin to use a racially charged phrase next to her name on the ballot was rejected Wednesday by a federal judge because she had based her action on the wrong grounds, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Ieshuh Griffin is running against three Democrats in [...]