Judge awards &#36;3M to mob victim family
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A federal judge awarded $3.1 million Tuesday to the family of a man who was killed by fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, ruling that the federal government is liable for the man's death because his identity was leaked to Bulger by a rogue FBI agent.
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NEW YORK The families or loved ones of civilians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks received, on average, $3.1 million in government and charitable awards.
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A jury awarded &#36;60 million Tuesday to the family of a girl paralyzed in a car wreck caused by a drunken football fan.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered three Islamic charities and a man accused of raising money for the Palestinian militant group Hamas to pay $156 million to the parents
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement involving Holocaust victims, their relatives and an Italian insurance company that ends a lawsuit brought a decade ago.
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The city has agreed to pay &#36;2 million to settle the wrongful arrest lawsuit of one of two boys accused in the 1998 slaying of an 11-year-old girl.
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David Schwimmer won a &#36;400,000 judgment in a defamation lawsuit against former charity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, the actor&#039;s publicist said Friday.
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By Gary Grado, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Feb. 3--Maricopa County is poised to offer $1.3 million to settle lawsuits brought by families of two inmates who died in jail.
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A jury on Thursday awarded more than &#36;4.4 million to a high school girls basketball coach who was accused of molesting a student but was never charged with a crime.
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An appeals court Tuesday lowered the bail for New York real estate heir Robert Durst from &#36;3 billion to &#36;450,000, increasing the likelihood the cross-dressing millionaire and former fugitive will be released.
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A 36-year-old taxi driver is found guilty of the murder of his wife and three children.
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The Justice Department has asked a judge to enter a &#36;2.53 billion judgment against two Rigas family members, citing the amount it claims the Adelphia Communications Corp. founders obtained illegally, court documents released on Tuesday show.
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A "miracle baby" was the victim of child traffickers motivated by financial greed, a judge rules.
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A Florida judge handed down death   sentences on Thursday to two men convicted of the brutal   slayings of six people in a dispute triggered by missing   property, including a video game system.
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Â· Gang threw stones at father and son Â· Victim's wife 'satisfied justice has been done'
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case tentatively ruled on Monday that more than three dozen items of evidence seized at the pop star&#39;s Neverland