Jury rules for franchisees in Shell trial
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A federal jury awarded more than $3 million to eight Massachusetts gas station operators after finding Shell Oil Co. used unfair tactics that were effectively intended to drive them out of business.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that two vegetarian activists convicted of defaming fast-food giant McDonald's did not receive a fair trial in Britain.
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Two activists convicted of libeling the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's after the longest court case in English legal history did not get a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A U.S. federal appeals court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc  to suspend oil exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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A federal court has temporarily cleared the way for shareholders to force companies to hold contested elections for directors.
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A Nigerian court has ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to pay 1.5 billion dollars in compensation to ethnic Ijaws of the restive Niger Delta, a company spokesman has said.
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Montana jury orders oil firm to pay up over gas pipeline leak from 1955; company plans to appeal. NEW YORK  - A Montana jury ordered ChevronTexaco Corp., the number two US oil company, to pay $40.3 million for environmental damage from a gasoline ...
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A jury convicted five and acquitted one of six former Enron and Merrill Lynch employees yesterday in the first prosecution arising from the accounting fraud that led to the energy trader&#39;s collapse.
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WASHINGTON -- A $120 million fine levied on Royal Dutch/Shell Group by the Securities and Exchange Commission resolves the company's part in the SEC inquiry into the overstatement of oil and gas reserves, but the role of individuals is still under investigation, regulators said yesterday..
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O.J. Simpson set up a shell company to hide his book profits from the family of Ron Goldman, which is trying to collect a wrongful death judgment against the former football star, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday.
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Four years after filing suit against the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos., Shell service station owners in Massachusetts went before a US District Court judge in Boston yesterday, charging that Shell took several measures in the late 1990s to drive them out of business.
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Jurors in the case of four former Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. executives and two former midlevel Enron executives on trial for fraud and conspiracy will be allowed to see salaries of three Merrill Lynch defendants, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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The first criminal trial stemming from the financial dealings at Enron ended yesterday with a raft of convictions, as a federal jury found that five defendants, including four former executives
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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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The dramatic final moments of United Airlines Flight 93 that were captured on a cockpit voice recorder can be played for a jury at the first trial stemming from lawsuits filed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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A jury says Headwaters is entitled to the money because of a breach of contract.