20413 ABA Journal Trials & Litigation articles.
Testimony by an expert witness for prosecutors who was unable to help a patient suffering from severe migraines ended up aiding the physician on trial for drug trafficking, according to…
Apr 24, 2007 2:02 PM CDT
The producers of bacteria-tainted spinach that sicked hundreds and led to a nationwide recall last year have reportedly settled for undisclosed terms the lawsuits brought by the families of three…
Apr 23, 2007 11:55 PM CDT
In a pretrial hearing for Jose Padilla, expected to go to trial on terrorism-related charges in federal court in Miami next month, the judge made a startling comment.
After defense…
Apr 23, 2007 8:41 PM CDT
In the second day of what is expected to be a several-month trial over the murders 13 years ago of 10 Belgian peacekeeping troops in Rwanda, along with the country’s…
Apr 23, 2007 8:07 PM CDT
A convicted sex offender has been found not guilty by a South Carolina jury of charges that he kidnapped and raped two teenage girls, binding them with duct tape and…
Apr 23, 2007 7:24 PM CDT
Roxanne Conlin, who describes herself in the April ABA Journal, as “the most senior civil rights lawyer in Iowa” is used to seeing her small firm (she…
Apr 21, 2007 12:15 AM CDT
In the latest salvo in the ongoing clash over the apparent political purge of eight U.S. attorneys, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion…
Apr 20, 2007 9:59 PM CDT A Florida judge has awarded $20 million in fees and $2.9 million in costs to lawyers who represented plaintiffs in a trade secrets lawsuit against Motorola, but didn’t rule on…
Apr 20, 2007 12:39 PM CDT Mary Winkler was convicted Thursday of voluntary manslaughter for killing her husband, a fundamentalist Church of Christ preacher in a small West Tennessee town. But the 33-year-old woman may not…
Apr 20, 2007 11:05 AM CDT A jury awarded only $42,000 in punitive damages yesterday in an SUV rollover case after finding Ford Motor Co. liable for millions of dollars in compensatory damages. Plaintiff Rebekah Zakrocki,…
Apr 19, 2007 12:50 PM CDT A federal appeals court has lowered a fee award for attorneys who won changes in the way Medicare notifies recipients about dropped or reduced benefits for home health care. The…
Apr 19, 2007 12:35 PM CDT A Pakistani man appeared in court last week for the first time in his home country after allegedly being abducted from South Africa 18 months ago and held secretly in…
Apr 18, 2007 7:45 PM CDT South Carolina’s federal court dockets are being flooded with cases requiring interpreters, especially for defendants accused of bringing illegal drugs into the state. Cases involving interpreters are sometimes more complex…
Apr 18, 2007 7:27 PM CDT On this day in 1521, Martin Luther, a German professor and theologian considered the chief force behind the Protestant Reformation in Europe, was called before the Roman Empire’s assembly, or…
Apr 18, 2007 5:29 PM CDT A discovery dispute in a securities fraud suit filed against Oracle Corp. raises the issue: Did the software company have an obligation to warn nonparties to preserve evidence? British author…
Apr 18, 2007 12:53 PM CDTJudge Awards $20 Million in Lawyer Fees, Sanctions Possible
Preacher’s Wife Convicted, But May Escape Jail
Punitives Low in Ford Rollover Case
Appeals Court Lowers Fee Award
Man Held, Secretly, in London Terror Bombings
Court Interpreters a ‘Growth Industry’ in S.C.
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