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N.Y., California prosecutors said to look at bank, individuals Federal prosecutors are investigating Wells Fargo & Co. in connection with the bank's sales practices after it agreed to pay $185 million in fines for opening more than 2 million unauthorized accounts, according to a person familiar with the Justice Department investigation. [Extracted from the article]

Following the sweeping indictment of FIFA officials released last week, the U.S. soccer parents who brought the lawsuit went on the offensive Tuesday, urging the judge not to toss their claims without considering that leaders of the organization are now implicated in corruption. King said FIFA lawyer Christopher Boehning refused to agree to allow the criminal complaint or news articles about it into the case. [Extracted from the article]

Fitbit Inc., on the verge of its initial public offering, was accused by Jawbone Inc. of "systematically plundering" employees and critical trade secrets from the rival maker of wearable devices. Starting this year, Fitbit recruiters contacted a third of Jawbone's employees and hired at least five, some of whom used USB thumb drives to steal proprietary information as they left, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in state court in San Francisco. [Extracted from the article]

Barclays said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which issued the fines in July 2013, doesn't have regulatory authority over commodity futures contracts and has no case because the bank didn't receive or deliver electricity under the contracts in question. The case is Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Barclays Bank Plc, 13-cv-02093, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento). [Extracted from the article]

Lawyers for Franklin are urging a San Francisco federal magistrate judge to sanction Miele's attorneys for even bringing the lawsuit. The Bank of New York's offers to track down Miele were never taken up by Johnson and Franklin, even though they had Miele's Social Security number since 1973, Miele said. Miele contends that due to the negligence of Franklin and Johnson, he's now entitled to 2.53 million Franklin shares, after splits, which he values at about $136 million. [Extracted from the article]

Benjamin Trounson, a U.S. spokesman for Mumbai-based Tata, said the company is confident Heldt's claims are baseless and will vigorously defend itself against them. Heldt filed the case as a class-action on behalf of other Tata employees. [Extracted from the article]

Class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accuses Lenovo of pre-installing software that "surreptitiously monitors, intercepts and transmits user information" in order to supply consumers with additional ads on Web pages. * Suit says Superfish hijacks legitimate connections, monitors activity and injects unrequested advertising into legitimate pages, presented as pop-up ads. * Suit claims violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse act, violation of federal wiretap law, fraud, breach of contract and trespass. [Extracted from the article]