Legal Verdicts Making News
| Legal Verdict News |
| $10 Million Verdict Upheld Against PricewaterhouseCoopers (Law.com) Georgia's Court of Appeals has upheld a $10 million jury verdict against PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of four family trusts. In 2007, a jury found the Big Four accounting firm liable for negligent misrepresentation in a series of financial audits of a nursing home conglomerate. Two brothers associated with the trusts claimed that PwC had engaged in fraud that cost them more than $126 million ... |
| Day 3 of jury deliberations ends without Missig verdict (The Daily News) A jury of seven women and five men has completed three days of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the perjury and official oppression trial of Noel G. Missig. |
| Verdict on Motherwell 1 Wolves 1 (Express and Star) Tim Nash brings you the latest news from the Wolves camp, including his verdict on the performance away to Motherwell. In two parts to the video, he brings the latest on the tour, then reflects on the pre-season friendly against the Scottish Premier League outfit. |
| F1: The full verdict in Mosley's privacy case (autosport.com) The full verdict handed out by The Honourable Mr Justice Eady of the London High Court in the case of Max Mosley versus News of the World |
| Jury Verdict: Aaron Foster Not Guilty of 1981 Murder of Barbara Winn (FOX 9 News Twin Cities) Around 8:30 p.m., Aaron Foster was found not guilty of unintentional murder for the 1981 death of his girlfriend, Barbara Winn, in Maplewood. The verdict left many people in the courtroom upset, swearing and crying, and Foster had to be escorted outside by a sheriff's deputy for his own safety. |
| No decision yet on directed verdict in sealers' case (The Western Star) The 11 sealers on trial for selling blueback seals 12 years ago will have to wait until Aug. 8 to find out if their request for a directed verdict will be granted by Judge Wayne Gorman. |
| Mosley welcomes privacy verdict which 'nails Nazi lie' (AFP via Yahoo! News) World motorsport chief Max Mosley welcomed Thursday his victory in his legal action against a newspaper which alleged he took part in a Nazi-style orgy, saying it "nailed the Nazi lie." |
| Medical Group, West Virginia Gov. Anger DuPont Plaintiffs in $400M Verdict (Insurance Journal) The plaintiffs who won a nearly $400 million verdict against DuPont say West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin and that state's Medical Association should butt out of the appeal. DuPont lost a lawsuit ove |
| Mosley welcomes privacy verdict which 'nails Nazi lie' (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News) World motorsport chief Max Mosley welcomed Thursday his victory in his legal action against a British newspaper which alleged he took part in a Nazi-style orgy, saying it "nailed the Nazi lie." |
| Neb. restaurant owner will pay $40,000 verdict (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The owner of a restaurant that served food tainted by an employee's spit and urine has agreed to pay $40,000 to a Sidney, Neb., police officer and his family who ate the food. |
Lawyers Making the News
| Lawyers Making Today's News |
| NYC lawyer sues Delta over delayed, stressful trip (USA Today) A New York City lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines Inc. for $5 million, claiming the carrier's incompetence and indifference left him stranded in Paris for four days last October during an airport workers' strike. |
| Lawyer sues Delta over canceled flight (UPI) NEW YORK, July 24 (UPI) -- A New York lawyer has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Delta Airlines, saying he has been waiting months to be reimbursed for a canceled flight from Paris. |
| Well-known lawyer could face felony charge (UPI) LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) -- A well-known Los Angeles lawyer could face felony charges for illegal campaign contributions. |
| NYC lawyer sues Delta over delayed, stressful trip (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) A New York City lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines Inc. for $5 million, claiming the carrier's incompetence and indifference left him stranded in Paris for four days last October during an airport workers' strike. Thomas Mullaney says Atlanta-based Delta refused to let passengers rebook flights by telephone and for "unfathomable" reasons insisted they go to the chaotic airport and rebook there. ... |
| NYC Lawyer Suing Delta Over Stressful Flight (WCBS-TV New York) A New York City lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines Inc. for $5 million, claiming the carrier's incompetence and indifference left him stranded in Paris for four days last October during an airport workers' strike. Richard Roth says Atlanta-based Delta refused to let passengers rebook flights by telephone and for "unfathomable" reasons insisted they go to the chaotic airport and rebook there. |
| Sex-change cases surge for lawyer (Gulf Daily News) A BAHRAINI lawyer who won the right for a Bahraini sex-change patient to be recognised as a man has been swamped by similar calls for help. More than 100 people from the Gulf, including one man from Bahrain, have approached lawyer Fawzia Janahi. |
| Lawyer Doug Christie loses appeal on misconduct ruling (Ottawa Citizen) Controversial lawyer Doug Christie, whose client list includes former Nazi prison guard Michael Seifert and Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel, has lost his appeal against a finding of professional misconduct. |
| British lawyer tries to ambush another Games pentathlon hope (Midwest Times) HOW low can the British stoop? So low that a British lawyer claims Australians cheated, by inventing and changing official scores, to ensure the Australian female modern pentathlon competitor Angie Darby qualified for a place at the Beijing Olympic Games. |
| Ont. lawyer denied leave to appeal kidnapping conviction (CNews) OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has denied an Ontario lawyer leave to appeal his kidnapping-related conviction in a case involving his former girlfriend's son. |
| Supreme Court quashes convicted lawyer's appeal (Mississauga News) Canada's highest court has shot down the bid of a once-prominent criminal lawyer to appeal his conviction of abducting an eight-year-old Mississauga boy and keeping him from his mother. Today, the Supreme Court of Canada denied Kadir Baksh, 58, the opportunity to appeal his case by dismissing his leave to appeal application. |
Today's Most Popular News
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| Spill closes Miss. River, shuts off exports
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Reuters - The largest petroleum spill to hit the Mississippi River since 2005's Hurricane Katrina snarled ship traffic on Thursday from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico and brought flows of grain and other key exports to a standstill. |
| 2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics
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| Estelle Getty remembered as funny, feisty, frugal
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| Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain
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| Toxic Chemicals Found in Laundry Products, Air Fresheners
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LiveScience.com - A study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, but none of those chemicals was listed on the product labels. |
