The Smothers brothers sued CBS for $31 million, and several years later, after an eight-week trial, won about three-quarters of a million dollars.

Herbert sued CBS over the 60 Minutes segment that painted him as a liar.

Later that year, the band threatened to sue CBS for using the name "Survivor" as the title of their hit reality show Survivor.

Hackworth threatened to sue CBS and requested a formal audit of his military records.

However, Krista Stegall later sued CBS over the incident.

In early 2001, she sued CBS, claiming that executive producer Mark Burnett arranged her exit and orchestrated the show's outcome.

Westmoreland then sued Wallace and CBS for libel.

He sued CBS and settled for an undisclosed amount of money in damages.

When those efforts failed, the group sued CBS in a last-ditch effort to block the sale.

The story was later retracted, and Green sued CBS.