Businessmen on trial for pier collapse
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Two businessmen were told the pier holding up a nightclub would collapse within hours but ignored the warnings, a decision that ultimately led to the deaths of three women, a prosecutor said Monday as their trial began.
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The city's biggest mob trial in years went to the jury Thursday after prosecutors made a last pitch to sway jurors to believe the testimony of their star witness, an admitted hit man.
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Not one, but three former CEOs begin their trials
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The captain of the doomed Ethan Allen tour boat and the company that owned will face trial in New York on misdemeanor charges, a report said.  While a New York grand jury recently ruled there was no cause to indict both parties for criminal negligence related to the boat's sinking Oct.
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The owners of a nursing home where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina will likely go on trial in St. Francisville, 120 miles northwest of where the victims died.
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Two former executives of German engineering firm Siemens go on trial accused of paying 6m euros in bribes.
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one involving banks and barges and midlevel employees â-re scheduled to begin this morning after the jury is seated. By Monday evening
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Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
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A total of 16 people and companies appear in court in eastern France tomorrow for a mammoth three-month trial that will seek to determine responsibility for one of historys worst tunnel disasters.
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Directors of the Walt Disney Company went on trial Wednesday on shareholder accusations that they rubber-stamped a decision by the chief executive, Michael D. Eisner
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The family of a man who died after a balcony fall in Greece begin their last legal bid to convict three doctors.
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Jury selection began Tuesday for the highly anticipated trial of one of the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 100 people three years ago.
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The first criminal trial to emerge from Enron Corp.&#39;s 2001 collapse â-ver the alleged sham sale of river barges in a scheme to help the energy company meet earnings targets â -ld stretch into a second phase.
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Steel firm Corus goes on trial for safety failures after three men died at its Port Talbot works in 2001.
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Jurors began deliberations Saturday in the trial of a Long Island electrician accused of brutally killing his lover's estranged, millionaire husband.
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Media & professional: Press baron's trial hears closing arguments Independent directors 'failed shareholders'.
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By Heather Smith  Defense arguments began Wednesday in France's first criminal trial against a company for an oil spill at sea - the 1999 Erika disaster - with lawyers for Total, the largest European oil refiner, telling the court that the public was looking for a "devil" to blame.