A former personal injury lawyer serving nearly four years in federal prison for helping disgraced South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh steal money from clients, was sentenced in state court Thursday to another 20 years in a case the judge said undermines faith in the legal profession.
Monsanto's favored research on the agricultural use of Roundup may show little link to cancer, but that's irrelevant because those users are better trained and protected than home users, a Missouri jury heard Wednesday in opening arguments by lawyers for a man claiming he was harmed by the herbicide.
New York federal prosecutors on Thursday ratcheted up a cryptocurrency fraud crackdown, announcing criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of now-bankrupt Celsius Network LLC for allegedly misleading customers about "core aspects" of the company's business.
A terminal mesothelioma patient closed out his talc trial against Johnson & Johnson on Monday by saying that right at the time he was born in 1998, the company ignored medical data indicating the danger of the allegedly deadly product.
A Brooklyn federal judge on Thursday sentenced "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland to serve 13 years in prison for his role in defrauding clients of $62 million in winnings, saying the former Rivkin Radler LLP partner abused his position of trust in "grotesque" fashion.