"Why would anybody take the chance of facing a million-dollar lawsuit by not following the correct procedure, which isn't even very hard to do?"

Ms. Kaufman's lawyers said they planned to file a million-dollar lawsuit against the customer who accused her of slapping him during a dispute over a drink.

According to one account, Prio's reputation alone persuaded a plaintiff to drop a million-dollar lawsuit against a prominent Chicago politician.

In 2006, Haley filed a 1.5 million-dollar lawsuit against McDonald's after his wife found a dead rat in her salad.

A brother of the fatally shot man launched a civil suit against the officer, and last Bobby knew, the trooper was dealing with a million-dollar lawsuit.

Could it be the million-dollar lawsuit he'd promised?

Shaikh's family filed a 1.1 million-dollar lawsuit against the jailed Kane.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, this is a million-dollar lawsuit,' " Mr. Ferri said.

In the meantime, the City of New York obtained a default judgement on a million-dollar lawsuit against Ms. Shakespeare.

No, the big stories this week were a lot less glamorous, mostly about bitter breakups, record-label fallouts, concert meltdowns, and million-dollar lawsuits.