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CBS, in its countercomplaint last fall, alleged that Sony was motivated to cut the network out of a lucrative deal.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Both Leviss’ lawsuit and Sandoval’s countercomplaint center on an incident on March 1, 2023, where Madix allegedly went through Sandoval’s phone after it fell from his pocket during a West Hollywood performance with his band.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

The audit report says that several days after the complaint was filed, Spann lodged a countercomplaint accusing the employee who filed it of impropriety with the same landlord.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

On Monday, Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers said that he had asked them to file a countercomplaint of slander against Ms. Banon.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2011

To offset Bourguiba's U.N. appeal, Pineau lodged a countercomplaint with the Security Council, charging, accurately enough, that Tunisia had permitted Algerian rebels to operate from Tunisian soil.

From Time Magazine Archive