Jury holds Texaco liable for 1955 leak
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW ) -- A jury has ordered Texaco to pay $15 million to finish the cleanup of a 1955 gas pipeline spill in a small town in Montana, and to pay $25 in punitive damages, according to published reports.
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The owner of a Texas bus company whose chartered coach exploded last fall, killing 23 elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees from a nursing home, was convicted today of falsifying logs and poorly maintaining his fleet.
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A Kansas City, Mo., jury ruled Tuesday that General Motors was not at fault in the vehicle-rollover death of professional football star Derrick Thomas.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages to victims of the huge Exxon Valdez oil spill that fouled more than 1,200 miles of Alaskan coastline in 1989.
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Sep. 21--GULFPORT -- Jurors on Wednesday found an Ocean Springs man guilty of kidnapping but were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a charge of armed robbery.
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Merck &amp; Co. is not liable for the heart attack of a Kentucky man who took the company's Vioxx painkiller for less than five months, a federal jury said yesterday.
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To Texas litigator Scott Summy, methyl tertiary butyl ether, the gasoline additive that reduces air pollution, is the devil--and his savior. He claims to have proof that Big Oil knew that MTBE-laced gasoline would leak out of filling station tanks into the ground and contaminate water supplies across America--and is therefore culpable in a big public hazard. "We are talking about the public's drinking water, and these guys have intentionally contaminated it to the largest scale ever in this country," says Summy.
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The jury has reached a verdict in the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a prosecution spokesman said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. jury on Friday found a former Coca-Cola Co.  executive assistant guilty of conspiring to steal trade secrets of the beverage giant and sell them to rival PepsiCo Inc.
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11/4/04- A Houston jury has convicted 5 men of fraud and conspiracy, while acquitting the only female defendant in the trial of ex-Merrill Lynch and former Enron executives.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 elderly people drowned during Hurricane Katrina were found not guilty of all charges on Friday by a Louisiana jury.
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The US Supreme Court said Monday it would examine the legality under maritime law of damages of 2.5 billion dollars awarded against ExxonMobil for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster.
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A Circuit Court jury had found Freightliner liable for shifting assets among several of its divisions in a bid to avoid a legal judgment.
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A federal jury decided Monday that the destruction of the World Trade Center was two events for insurance purposes, meaning leaseholder Larry Silverstein can collect twice
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In federal court in Houston, a jury convicted five of six defendants in the first criminal trial involving former energy giant Enron Corp.
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Expert: $135 million verdict in alcohol liability case should send wakeup call to teams
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A JURY in Houston, Texas, today delivered criminal convictions against four bankers and an Enron executive in a case stemming from a money-losing project of electricity-generating barges off the coast of Nigeria.