And it is in a legal spat with a major supplier that decided to become a major competitor.

Yesterday's Diary reported a legal spat between spinner Alistair Mackinnon-Musson and Hudson Sandler.

A legal spat between two companies is a parochial matter, but SCO broadened its campaign last month.

But he said the legal spats over the document's provenance had been worked out before he bought it.

To be sure, that opinion doesn't appear to be uniformly shared among actual authors; Neil Gaiman notably argued that getting involved in a legal spat over this issue would be counterproductive.

As it is, options have led to a number of legal spats.

Are the harsh spotlight and legal spat hurting the stock?

Microsoft started the legal spat.

The company remains tangled in a vitriolic legal spat between Mr. Goldstein and Joseph Fischer, who served as an adviser to the 47th Street Photo founder.

In a bitter legal spat details emerged of Neil's use of high-class escorts in Thailand and Hong Kong.