accountability
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A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil (XOM.N) to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff. Attorneys said the 10-2 verdict came on Thursday after a trial in a state court in Philadelphia, where former mechanic Paul Gill…
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A U.S. judge in Missouri, Stephen Bough, approved $208 million in consumer antitrust settlements with Re/Max and two other leading real estate brokerages. He cast aside objections claiming the deals could bar others from pursuing their own claims that the defendants inflated home sales commissions. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough in Kansas City stated that…
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A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp against an Israeli data-scraping company, accusing it of illegally copying and selling content from the social media platform, as well as providing tools for others to do the same. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly…
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the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial urged prosecutors to instruct Michael Cohen, Trump’s estranged former lawyer and fixer, to cease making public statements about the case before his anticipated testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case related to hush money paid to a porn star, highlighted Cohen’s social media activity…
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Oklahoma’s attorney general announced on Thursday that he is firing the outside legal team hired to defend a state law prohibiting state pension systems from contracting with companies that limit investment in the oil and gas industry. This decision comes days after a judge temporarily blocked the statute’s enforcement. Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond stated…
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On Thursday, a federal judge indicated a willingness to compel Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. Lawyers for the billionaire appeared in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday to urge U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to decide against the SEC,…
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The American Bar Association’s legal education arm may soon endorse lawyer licensing pathways that don’t involve passing the bar exam, potentially softening a pro-bar exam stance the organization has held for more than a century. While still in preliminary stages, such a move would represent a shift in the hard-line position on bar admission held…
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Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “The majority today holds that due process never requires the minimal check of a retention hearing before a police officer deprives an innocent owner of her car for months or years,” Sotomayor wrote. Plaintiff Lena Sutton’s vehicle was seized while it was being driven by a friend who…
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced a new slate of four judicial nominees as part of his efforts to diversify the federal bench, with plans to elevate a Florida magistrate judge to a seat on a federal appeals court. The Democratic president stated his intention to nominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Embry Kidd in Orlando to…
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump secured another victory in his campaign to slow down the criminal cases against him, as a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for attempting to overturn his election loss in the state. This ruling extends the legal battle regarding a past romance…
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