Total Opens Defense in Criminal Trial on Oil Spill
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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.
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The former director of a Russian fertilizer company took the stand Friday as the first witness in the fraud and tax evasion trial of former Yukos oil company chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a top business partner.
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The defence in the multiple murder trial of Canadian pig farmer Robert Pickton is due to begin calling witnesses.
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The New York State attorney general said on Thursday he planned to sue Exxon Mobil Corp.  over a decades-old oil spill in New York City.
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Defense lawyers on Wednesday sought to  poke holes in a government witness's story of an angry  confrontation with a former Enron Corp. accountant charged with  fraud after the witness disclosed a secret deal with Merrill  Lynch at the heart of the first criminal trial of former  employees of the fallen energy company.
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BP PLC is facing a growing federal investigation into possible criminal environmental and safety violations at its Texas refinery where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers, lawyers suing the firm said.
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A father's emotional testimony over the loss of his son aboard the USS Cole opened a civil trial Tuesday in which relatives of the 17 victims of the terrorist attack are trying to prove it couldn't have happened without Sudan's support.
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To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888   WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, found CITGO Petroleum Corp., and its subsidiary, CITGO Refining and Chemicals Co.
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Three people on trial over the  deadliest U.S. human smuggling disaster, which left 19 dead in  a stifling truck trailer, were part of a wide network that  abused illegal immigrants, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as &quot;Chemical Ali,&quot; appeared on Saturday before an investigating magistrate, kicking off the process of trials of Iraq&#39;s former top officials.
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HOUSTON Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow isn&#39;ta defendant or a prosecution witness in the first criminal trial to emerge from the energy company&#39;s crash -- but he could be called to testify.
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France begins a trial over the 1999 Erika oil spill - one of the country's worst environmental disasters.
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As the first criminal trial stemming from the financial deals at Enron opens, it will be notable as much for who is not among the six defendants as who is.
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Firedoglake.com has offered intensive trial coverage, using some six contributors in rotation.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - Actor Robert Blake's lawyers  on Tuesday opened his defense against charges that he murdered  his wife by trying to portray a chief witness against him as a  delusional drug addict.
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The first criminal trial involving former executives of the now infamous energy company, Enron, begins today in a case that could have a crucial bearing on future trials of the company&#39;s top officials.
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The captains of two vessels that triggered a massive oil spill in South Korea are charged with negligence.