The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's packed meeting Thursday in South Carolina will see the panel mulling consolidation of privacy litigation against 23andMe, claims of heavy metals in baby food, and scholarship-fixing claims by student athletes against the NCAA and that's just for starters.
Arizona prosecutors went to trial Friday against a borderlands rancher they allege killed a migrant trespasser after a history of hostility toward border-crossers, while the man's counsel said he properly reported finding a dead body despite his deep fear that blame could be misdirected at him.
Disgraced lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison by a South Carolina state judge for stealing $12.4 million from his law partners and clients and evading taxes, a white collar punishment that prosecutors said was "more than Enron, more than WorldCom."
Disgraced lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison by a South Carolina state judge for stealing $12.4 million from his law partners and clients and evading taxes, a white collar punishment that prosecutors said was "more than Enron, more than WorldCom."
A former top executive for the Trump Organization testified in former President Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial Tuesday that seemingly major discrepancies between appraised real estate values and the company's own estimates did not rise to the level of needing to be flagged to an outside accountant.