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NEW YORK -- Starcom MediaVest Group and Donovan Data Systems today said they have reached an agreement to end their arbitration process that began in July 2007 and withdraw all [...]

The unfriendly skies: Virgin sues AdrantsVirgin America filed suit against the ad blog Adrants last week for posting a parody ad and speculating about its provenance. Adrants noted that its [...]

M&C Saatchi's anti-obesity campaign, 'Change4life', has come under fire after the Advertising Standards Authority received five complaints that the ad contained inaccurate information. The complaints surrounded the veracity of the [...]

The civil rights law firm Mehri & Skalet has suggested it may join with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a class action suit against the [...]

Leo Burnett will pay the US Army dollars 15.5 million in order to settle allegations that the agency overcharged the government institution. The lawsuit emerged in 2004 when two staff [...]

NEW YORK -- Leo Burnett will pay $15.5 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled the U.S Army when it handled the military service's account between 2000 and 2006, the [...]

19 communities get HUD funds to buy houses Nineteen local communities, including 10 along Eight Mile Road, will receive and apply a collective $134 million in federal funds for the [...]

The iconic Polaroid Corporation and its subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The legendary high-tech American company, inventor of instant photography, blamed allegations of fraud at its parent [...]

NEW YORK -- The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies wrote to Arbitron on behalf of its member shops late last week chastising the radio ratings company for ignoring concerns it [...]

Discovery Networks UK has taken BSkyB to the High Court over the amount of ad revenue Sky Media pays to Discovery. Sky Media has sold advertising for Discovery's TV channels […]

The ex-president of Troy-based Leo Burnett Detroit is suing the ad agency, alleging age discrimination, retaliation and breach of contract, among other things. Jim Moore, who was fired last month, [...]

NEW YORK -- The outcome of a lawsuit that accuses Molson Coors Brewing Co. and London agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay of infringing upon the copyright of a software application that [...]

The Singapore High Court has dismissed the PR guru Michael De Kretser's appeal against MDK Consultants, the WPP-owned shell company. De Kretser lodged an appeal after MDK won a suit [...]

Beattie McGuinness Bungay's Carling iPint application has become the subject of a dollars 12.5 million lawsuit, filed in the US last week against Carling's parent, Coors. A Nevada based developer, [...]

WPP and Marco Benatti, a former senior WPP employee, have reached agreement out of court over a long-running legal dispute. Benatti was dismissed after he was accused of duplicity over […]

DETROIT -- H&R Block's people are not American Express' people.At least that's the contention in a trademark infringement case filed by Block, the tax preparation firm, late last week in [...]

A bitter feud is thought to have broken out between Adam & Eve, the start-up from the former management team of WPP-owned Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, and WPP's chief executive […]

The war of words over the future ownership of research company Taylor Nelson Sofres has hotted up, with the chief executives of rival suitors WPP Group and GfK accusing each […]

Byline: Ken Magill Virgin Trains would like a do-over please. The UK railway operator's online booking agent, thetrain.com, mistakenly sent a message offering a 'five star evening' at a golf [...]

BOSTON -- Interpublic Group today said it has reached a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering all charges brought by the SEC against IPG and its McCann [...]

A VW Polo ad featuring a singing dog has sparked 500 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), but the regulator says it will not investigate. The 30-second execution by […]

Byline: TS Cameron Scott, he of the AADB, is a good friend of Taking Stock's. Many's the time TS has mocked up pictures of him with wigs on, and in [...]

Omnicom has successfully defended a lawsuit from investors, who were claiming dollars 1 billion (pounds 502 million) in damages over the way it accounted for its internet assets following the [...]

NEW YORK -- A federal judge today dismissed the remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit that accused Omnicom Group of impropriety in its accounting for its interactive holdings. U.S. District [...]

Judge Asks Biegel for More Info to Support Dentsu ClaimNEW YORK A U.S. District Court judge has asked former Dentsu creative director Steve Biegel for more information to support his [...]

NEW YORK -- A U.S. District Court judge has asked former Dentsu cd Steve Biegel for more information to support his allegations of sexual harassment against the agency. However, the [...]

Tower's deals again have him in court Master Power sues over catalog job Harford County businessman John Tower, who has been in court twice in the last year because of [...]

NEW YORK -- The legal battle between Interpublic Group's Universal McCann and George Hayes, its former evp, client services, has intensified. Hayes yesterday asked the U.S. District Court in New [...]

An online advertiser touting free electronics products agreed Nov. 28 to pay a $650,000 civil fine for misleading consumers. A Federal Trade Commission complaint charged that Adteractive failed to disclose […]

A legal row has blown up over allegations by the former Dentsu US creative director Steve Biegel that he was pressured into visiting a brothel and engaging in sexual activities [...]

Antena 1, the Romanian TV network, has called on the public prosecutor's office to act on its allegation that TNS-AGB International, the country's official audience measurement company, provided incorrect data [...]

Byline: Deon Roberts Paul Richard, candidate for a Louisiana Senate seat, is suing his opponent, David Heitmeier, saying he accepted an illegal campaign contribution. Covington-based advertising agency Innovative Advertising, which [...]

Byline: normandy madden [hong kong] When Asian advertising executives learned last week about the sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuit filed by Steve Biegel against Dentsu, many were astounded-not by the steamy [...]

After a turbulent few years, Interpublic is poised to defend fresh allegations of financial wrongdoing. John Tylee reports. Lawyers were this week pressing ahead with moves to head off a [...]

Byline: emma hall and bradley johnson Interpublic Group of Cos. faces a courtroom showdown in London next month in a case that will again throw a spotlight on the holding [...]

Interpublic is facing a second court battle relating to the handling of its finances, after the former shareholders in the UK customer publishing agency TPD instigated action against the holding [...]

Barnett Fletcher brings legal case against Interpublic Group over alleged financial misrepresentation. Interpublic Group is facing fresh allegations in an upcoming UK court case relating to the handling of its [...]

Campaigners for tighter curbs on junk-food ads are predicting they will win their battle, despite the unlikelihood of last week's Bill calling for a 9pm watershed becoming law. The House [...]

Virgin Trains is to extend its controversial 'Plane Relief Plus' ads, which encourage travellers to ditch air travel in favour of rail, after the Advertising Standards Agency rejected complaints made [...]

WPP Group has denied claims it is to pay the full #2.5m costs of the recent libel case brought by chairman Sir Martin Sorrell. Sorrell sued two former colleagues over […]

Howard Draft, the DraftFCB chief executive, could be called to give evidence in a lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart by its former marketing chief, Julie Roehm. She said she planned to [...]

Byline: Betsy Spethmann Omnicom Group is being sued for using the name 'Fuse' for the new sports and entertainment marketing agency that it launched last week. The trademark infringement suit [...]

An ambient ad for the government-backed Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has been found to be illegal. In a landmark test case brought by Gateshead Council, Newcastle agency Gorilla Media [...]

Byline: EMMA HALL ehall@adage.com [london] Martin Sorrell was in court every day last week, listening and BlackBerrying as defense attorneys in his libel suit against two former WPP employees painted [...]

GlobeDirectLLC has had its request for an injunction against several former employees rejected by the Middlesex Superior Court. In February, GlobeDirect alleged that several former employees stole work histories, customer [...]