Mike Williams for Gamesindustry.biz:

Electronic Arts has filed a lawsuit against Zynga for infringing on copyrights related to The Sims Social. In EA’s complaint filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the publisher has accused Zynga’s The Ville of standing as willful copyright infringement. The Sims Social launched in August of 2011, while The Ville launched in June of 2012.

I admit that I haven’t play either, but my wife was an avid Sims Social player until The Ville launched. She switched because she says that The Ville is less crash-prone than Sims Social.