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Events with high posterior probability

Francis Bacon (artist)	The suit was dropped in early 2002 when both sides agreed to pay their own costs and Marlborough released all its documents about Bacon.
Arthur Shirley	Shirley owed money to a Miss Tindall, a debt which saw him be declared bankrupt at his own petition in December 1913.
Eddie Livingstone	In October 1923, a ruling was made that Arena Gardens had abused its position as a trustee of the assets of the Toronto Hockey Club -- its player contracts -- and finding damages of $ 100,000 in favour of Livingstone.
Frank Warren (promoter)	Represented by solicitors Carter-Ruck, in 2007 Warren secured apology and significant damages from publisher Random House over defamatory comments in the book Ricky Hatton : The Hitman, My Story.
Gary Friedrich	In 2011, he lost a federal lawsuit over a claim of ownership in the character Ghost Rider, but three months after an appellate court reversed that decision, the parties said they had reached a settlement.
Wayne Newton	In August 2005, the IRS filed a lawsuit against Newton alleging that he and his wife owed more than $ 1.
Gordon Mills	Eventually, in May 1982, the court found in O'Sullivan's favour, describing him as a'' patently honest and decent man'', who had not received a just proportion of the vast income his songs had generated.
Death of Ian Tomlinson	In August 2013, the Metropolitan Police settled a civil action by Tomlinson's family by issuing a formal apology for its'' use of excessive and unlawful force'' against Tomlinson, and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum in compensation.
Frank McCourt (executive)	On December 7, 2010 the judge in the divorce case of the McCourts invalidated the post-nuptial marital property agreement ('' MPA'') that Frank McCourt had claimed provided him with sole ownership of the Dodgers.
Harry Kewell	In a related matter, Kewell sued Lineker in 2005 for defamation of character, but, with the jury unable to agree on a verdict, the parties had to settle out of court.
Steve Wynn	Also in 1991, Gomes alleged in a countersuit that Wynn used harsh language against Gomes, but Wynn's representatives denied the allegations, implying that they were attempt to refocus the lawsuit from Gomes to Wynn.
Harry Wheatcroft	In the Chancery Division,' With his Dundreary whiskers, his mane of black hair, his suit of black-and-white check... the Nottingham rose king made as picturesque a figure this week as the Law Courts have seen' He made the judge laugh, lost the case, but reckoned the publicity well worth the # 2000 costs.
George Michael	In 1999, he brought a US$ 10 million court case in California against the singer.
Rick Ross	In August 2008, YouTube entertainer DJ Vlad filed a lawsuit against Ross for assault and battery.
Ilona Staller	In 2008, Staller filed suit against Koons for failing to pay child support.
Murder of Imette St. Guillen	In early 2008, St. Guillen's mother brought a civil action against the federal government for US$ 200 million for their failure to keep track of Littlejohn.
Jack Schwarz (producer)	In 1945, Schwarz filed a plagiarism action against Universal Pictures and its executives.
Barbara Chase-Riboud	In 1997, Chase-Riboud settled a suit against DreamWorks for $ 10 million on charges of copyright infringement.
Greg Caton	On June 5, 1996, after a hearing, the court rendered a default judgment against Caton, awarding Trudeau $ 5 million in compensatory damages and $ 5 million in punitive damages.
Nicky Hilton	On February 12, 2007, Hilton was sued for breach of contract by her partners.
Timbaland	In March 2009, he filed a lawsuit against his label, Blackground Records, alleging that they attempted to blackball him after he decided to move from music performance into production.
Mike Nifong	On January 15, 2008, Nifong filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Paula White	Tims' ex-wife Riva filed a lawsuit but quickly dropped it, citing a hold harmless clause in her 2009 marital settlement agreement.
Chol Soo Lee	San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Peter Seires ordered Chol Soo Lee to be released on March 28, 1983, after Lee's supporters pledged property worth twice the amount of the $ 250,000 bail.
Neil Gaiman	In papers filed by Gaiman in early 2002, however, he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter (himself) and artist (McFarlane), not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series.
Mark Shurtleff	In May 2013, the media reported on a secret recording in which Mark Shurtleff was heard offering a businessman, Darl McBride, $ 2 million if he dropped his ongoing battle with another prominent businessman, Mark Robbins.
Hanno Soth	In 1990, while living in Hawaii, Soth became entangled in a lengthy legal battle regarding his claim to an inheritance in the estate of Carmen C. Herbert.
Robert R. Thomas	In 2007, Justice Thomas was awarded $ 7 million in a successful defamation of character lawsuit against Bill Page, a former columnist at the Kane County Chronicle.
Max Falstein	Falstein was declared bankrupt on 12 August 1958 ; his appeals to the courts failed.
George Eastham	However, Eastham considered the point worth fighting for, and backed by the Professional Footballers' Association (who provided # 15,000 to pay for Eastham's legal fees), he took the club to the High Court in 1963.
David Copperfield (illusionist)	On August 25, 2000, Copperfield unsuccessfully sued Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for reimbursement of a $ 506,343 ransom paid to individuals in Russia who had commandeered the entertainer's equipment there.
Red Strader	On December 12, 1956, Strader's widow, Helen, filed a $ 27,000 lawsuit against the 49ers, asking for the compensation provided by her husband's contract.
Hulk Hogan	On January 2013, Bollea filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Laser Spine Institute for $ 50 million, citing that the medical firm persuaded him to undergo a half-dozen'' unnecessary and ineffective'' spinal operations that worsened his back problems.
Anita Mui	After that challenge, the Court of First Instance of Hong Kong declared Tam bankrupt on 25 April 2012 for failing to pay legal fees, whilst allowing her to continue receiving her monthly allowance.
Wayne Newton	In February 2010, Bruton Smith sued Newton claiming Newton was delinquent on a loan he had personally guaranteed and then bought from Bank of America.
Art Alexakis	On January 4, 2005, Alexakis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California.
Kurt Eichenwald	When Eichenwald's initial $ 2,000 payment via cashier's check was revealed to editors at The Times in June 2007, Eichenwald claimed that Berry's family had later repaid him the full amount, and that the only other payment he had made to Berry was $ 10 via PayPal.
Jessica Cutler	In June 2005, Robert Steinbuch, who says that he is the person Cutler referred to as'' RS'' on her blog, filed a lawsuit against her, seeking over $ 75,000 in damages.
Kathlyn Williams	On April 8, 1950, Williams sued the estate of Rose for $ 136,615, citing negligence and claiming that the automobile had inefficient brakes.
Kevin Costner	In October 2006, Costner asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to re-examine the ruling, as an accountant hired by the actor had determined the market value of the casino to be $ 3.
David Rocker	In December 2009, the suit against Rocker, whose name had since been changed to Copper River Partners, was settled by the hedge fund agreeing to pay $ 5 million.
Kim Jong-hak	Several months after the drama ended, members of the Faith cast and crew filed a lawsuit in February 2013 against Kim over unpaid wages amounting to (), under the charge that he had misappropriated for personal use.
John Quidor	Jarvis did not pay much attention to Quidor, favoring Inman over him, leading Quidor to sue Jarvis for breach of indenture in 1822, winning damages of $ 251.
Mehdi Khalaji	In November 2007, Khalaji, being a fellow at a think-tank called the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), filed a $ 2 million libel and defamation lawsuit against Hossein Derakhshan.
Jake Holmes	In June 2010, Holmes filed a lawsuit against Jimmy Page for copyright infringement in United States District Court, claiming Page knowingly copied his work.
Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals owner)	, the Bengals filed suit against the County for the right to manage it in 2000.
Ji?? Hudler	The IIHF later approved Hudler's KHL contract on September 9, 2009, revealing that although Hudler's agent had filed for the arbitration case on his client's behalf, Hudler had not actually signed for the case himself, deeming the arbitration case invalid.
George Jones	In 1978, owing Wynette $ 36,000 in child support and claiming to be one million dollars in debt, he filed for bankruptcy.
Michael Spinks	In 2011, however, after Lewis died from natural causes, it was reported that Spinks had sued Lewis's estate in a Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that the promoter had failed to properly manage the more than $ 24 million Spinks had earned in the ring and had violated their agreements that Lewis would continue to manage Spinks's money and pay his living expenses for the rest of the boxer's life.
Sean Macias	Macias has also handled the $ 16 million copyright infringement suit of Ashley Gasper aka Jules Jordan and the wrongful termination suit by Andrew MacDonald against Ascent Media Group, LLC and its subsidiaries in 2010.
Michael Moore	In February 2012, Moore and the Weinsteins informed the court that they had settled their dispute.
Elton John	When the contract was signed in 1974, MCA reportedly took out a $ 25 million insurance policy on John's life.
Mark Madden	Shortly before Vince McMahon purchased WCW in March 2001, Madden was fired for making disparaging remarks about the company, lobbying for the return of the fired Scott Hall, and disclosing information about the sale of WCW.
Marc Stuart Dreier	Sheila Gowan, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of the law firm, filed a Chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy petition for Dreier on January 26, 2009.
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad	On December 4, 2000, Dhoruba's suit against the New York Police Department, seeking $ 15 million in damages was scheduled to begin.
Ray Gricar	On June 30, 2011, Lara Gricar, Ray's daughter and trustee of his estate, petitioned Centre County for a court declaration of presumed death.
Death of Kelly Thomas	On 16 May 2012, press reports indicated that the Fullerton City Council had agreed to pay Thomas' mother one million dollars as a settlement of her civil complaints against the city.
Steven Sueppel	In August 2008, Hills Bank and Trust filed court documents demanding payment from Sueppel's estate for the allegedly embezzled funds and for $ 32,673 in outstanding loans.
Perez Hilton	On January 23, 2008, Perez Hilton was awarded $ 85,000 by Superior court Judge Elihu Berle in this lawsuit filed by Ronson.
Stanley R. Jaffe	When Viacom purchased Paramount in 1994, Jaffe was forced out and filed a lawsuit against Paramount for $ 20 million in a stock option dispute.
L. D. Hotchkiss	In 1938, Hotchkiss, his publisher Norman Chandler, and the Times-Mirror Company (owner of the Los Angeles Times) were jointly found guilty of contempt of court for editorials that commented on pending court cases.
Tony McCarroll	Eventually, he accepted an out-of-court settlement of # 600,000 in March 1999, which effectively severed all links to the band, with McCarroll's legal fees reported at # 250,000.
William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower (1820?1872)	In 1853, after the death of Dobson, Huntingtower's assignees in bankruptcy sued to overturn the mortgage on the estates and recover the policies, and were successful in having the transaction nullifed by the Court of Chancery as a fraud upon Lord Huntingtower.
Ron Prince	On August 10, 2009, attorneys for Prince filed a counterclaim against Kansas State Athletics seeking $ 3 million in punitive damages.
Steve Wynn	In January 2012, Wynn's former business partner Kazuo Okada filed suit to gain access to company documents related to Wynn's pledge to donate $ 135 million to the University of Macau Development Foundation.
Steve Moore	On March 28, 2008, Bertuzzi filed a lawsuit against Crawford, alleging that he was contractually obliged to obey Crawford and that therefore Crawford shares responsibility for the injury to Moore.
Mel Sembler	In May 1983, Straight, Inc was convicted of false imprisonment after being sued by then 20-year-old Fred Collins Jr, who alleged he had been held captive by the program against his will.
Nate Thayer	In 2002 Thayer sued Koppel and ABC News for $ 30 million in punitive damages and unspecified compensatory damages.
Bill Simon (politician)	In August 2002, a California Superior Court jury found Simon's company guilty of defrauding an estranged business partner in a civil lawsuit and ordered him to pay $ 78 million in damages.
Harold Reynolds	It was announced on October 30, 2006, that Reynolds planned to sue ESPN after having tried'' everything possible to handle this situation quietly behind the scenes,'' while stating that he is seeking the money owed to him under the remainder of his contract, including interest and lost earnings.
Halsey Minor	In September 2008 Minor was sued for failure to pay for these paintings while allegedly waiting for Sotheby's to provide the promised documents that showed their actions had not violated New York law.
Terence Young (politician)	He founded Drug Safety Canada to advocate for safe prescription drugs, and also initiated a hundred million dollar class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Health Canada in 2000, and an individual lawsuit, later settled after a six-year court battle.
G?nter Wallraff	On December 17, 2004, the Hamburg district court ruled on a suit brought by Wallraff that he must not be described as an Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter or Stasi collaborator (he was being called this above all in newspapers belonging to the Axel Springer Verlag, the publishers of Bild) as no proof of collaboration could be furnished in the documents which had been presented.
Andrew Landeryou	Landeryou was declared bankrupt by the Federal Magistrates Court in May 2006.
Adam Goldstein	In December 2008, Goldstein filed a civil lawsuit against the plane's charter company, Learjet and Goodyear tires ; the suit claims negligence on the part of the pilots and a manufacturing defect on the part of the plane.
Ed Fagan	In the 1995, Fagan filed lawsuits against Swiss bank s which had refused to repay money that belonged to Holocaust victims.
Brad Scioli	In December 2011, Kacyvenski announced that he and a group of 11 other professional players had filed a lawsuit against the NFL.
John Vella	In February 2003, the team filed a lawsuit against Vella's business, claiming trademark infringement and the selling of unlicensed merchandise.
Bow Wow (rapper)	On March 28, 2012 it was announced Bow Wow was ordered by court to pay $ 3,000 a month in child support.
Joel Turner (musician)	In October the same year, Turner submitted a victim impact statement to the Beenleigh District Court and declared that the broken jaw he sustained in 2007 had rendered him unable to adequately promote his second album Out of the Box, which he claimed was detrimental to the album's sales.
Cesar Millan	Also in 2006, Floyd Suarez sued Millan, alleging that his dog had been injured while on a treadmill at the Dog Psychology Center, and eventually settled out of court.
Adam Curry	In the subsequent dispute, Cavendish seized the assets of the company, and in April 2005, Curry was ordered by a Dutch court to repay approximately US$ 250 million that he had withdrawn from RotorJet.
Christine Craft	While working in Santa Barbara, Craft filed a TITLE VII lawsuit against Metromedia, and in 1983, a federal jury in Kansas City awarded her $ 500,000 in damages.
Silvana Armenuli?	In 2004, Hajrija (by then nearly 88 years old), filed a lawsuit against her former son-in-law and Silvana's ex-husband Radmilo Armenulić, the suit alleged that the six-bedroom apartment in which he lived with his second wife, belonged to the Bajraktarević family.
Mary J. Blige	The Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of a lien on her on Feb. 7, 2013.
Norbert Wollheim	In 1950 Norbert Wollheim sued for his salary as slave labourer and compensation for damages.
John Lott	On April 10, 2006, John Lott filed suit for defamation against Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers over the book Freakonomics and against Levitt over a series of emails to John McCall.
Jack Hardy (labor leader)	In 1942, Zysman filed a lawsuit to recover his pension after his dismissal : The pension board voted to file a letter from Dale Zysman, publish school teacher who was dismissed from service last December as a result of the Rapp-Coudert investigation, Mr. Zysman had asked permission to have his accumulated pension contributions in the pension fund at 4 per cent interest, arguing that this privilege is granted to resigned teachers for a period of five years after they leave the service.
Lucien Lagrange	In 2010 Lagrange closed his office and filed chapter 11 bankruptcy while going through a divorce.''
David Vendetta	In the beginning of 2010, David Vendetta filed a lawsuit against French internet phenomenon Mickaël Vendetta for unfair business practices, saying :'' This guy is an impostor, a troublemaker.
Chris Sawyer	Sawyer and Atari settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in February 2008.
Tammy Faye Messner	Messner filed for personal and corporate bankruptcy in 1990, saying he owed nearly $ 30 million to more than 300 creditors.
Martin Sorrell	In October 2005, Sorrell cashed in # 12 million of shares in WPP to satisfy paying their # 30 million divorce settlement, where represented by Nicholas Mostyn QC she was awarded : a # 3.
Shakira	In September 2012, it was reported that de la Rúa planned to sue Shakira for $ 250 million, seeking monetary compensation for his work as her business manager as well as ownership of properties jointly held by the former couple.
Alex Alben	The suit settled in 1985, with no payment, but a statement from CBS that Westmoreland'' had done his duty as he saw fit.''
Richard Prince	In December 2008, photographer Patrick Cariou filed suit against Richard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, Lawrence Gagosian and Rizzoli International Publications in Federal district court for copyright infringement in work shown at Prince's Canal Zone exhibit at the Gagosian gallery.
Margaret Walker	In 1988, Margaret Walker sued Alex Haley, claiming that his novel Roots : The Saga of an American Family had violated Jubilee's copyright by borrowing from her novel.
Jim Devine	On Devine's failure to pay the compensation of # 35,000, bankruptcy proceedings were instituted against him and he was adjudicated bankrupt on 23 February 2011.
Eva Longoria	On July 28, 2011, the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada, following a request filed by Beso investor Mali Nachum and her husband Ronen, who have been litigating against Longoria and other Beso investors in multiple courts, ordered Eva Longoria to appear in Las Vegas on August 20 in order to be examined about the bankrupt restaurant's finances.
Carly Rae Jepsen	In October 2012, Jepsen was sued in Federal Court in Los Angeles for copyright infringement.