Jay Reeves

March 31, 2004 | Law.com

Santa Clara, Calif., computer chip giant Intel Corp. will pay software maker Intergraph Corp. $225 million to settle a patent dispute involving computer manufacturer Dell Inc. under an agreement announced Tuesday. The settlement is the latest development in a long-running dispute over technology between the Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph and Intel.

By Jay Reeves

2 minute read

June 09, 2008 | Law.com

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wrongly conspired with prominent trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs to skirt a court order in a case involving Hurricane Katrina insurance claims, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge William Acker said the attorney general helped his "close confidant" Scruggs avoid handing over stolen insurance company documents that Scruggs wanted for lawsuits against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The judge cited Scruggs and two whistleblowers for civil contempt.

By Jay Reeves

3 minute read

June 17, 2004 | Law.com

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out a key part of his indictment, saying a 2002 law aimed at clamping down on corporate fraud is unconstitutionally vague. Attorneys for the ousted chief of the rehabilitation giant also argued that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act puts corporate officers in an unfair position. Scrushy last year became the first chief executive charged under the law.

By Jay Reeves

2 minute read

November 30, 2004 | Law.com

In the first court test of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal judge has rejected a challenge by fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy to the corporate fraud law that was adopted following a series of major accounting scandals. Ruling in what she said was the first decision on the constitutionality of the 2002 law, U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre said jurors -- not a judge -- should decide key questions raised in Scrushy's case.

By Jay Reeves

3 minute read

April 24, 2007 | Law.com

In what experts say may be the Securities and Exchange Commission's third-largest settlement with an individual, fired HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy has reached an $81 million deal to end a government lawsuit in a huge accounting fraud. However, he'll wind up paying less than $10 million -- maybe much less -- as his attorneys contend he's running out of money. Scrushy was acquitted on all charges in the fraud and has since become a TV preacher in HealthSouth's hometown of Birmingham, Ala.

By Jay Reeves

3 minute read

January 26, 2005 | Law.com

Richard Scrushy's trial on corporate fraud charges opened Tuesday with a prosecutor telling jurors the fired HealthSouth CEO was the driving force behind a conspiracy to overstate earnings by about $2.7 billion. "The evidence will show that Richard Scrushy as chief executive officer gave phony numbers to the public," U.S. Attorney Alice Martin told jurors. The case marks the first test of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires top executives to vouch for company financial reports.

By Jay Reeves

4 minute read

January 05, 2010 | Law.com

Envelopes containing white powder set off anthrax scares in five Alabama cities, shutting down two federal courthouses Monday and trapping a congressman in his office as authorities tested the substance. No one was injured, and none of the letters tested positive for anthrax or other hazardous substances. A letter found Sunday by an employee prompted the closure of Birmingham's federal courthouse, and two letters sent to the federal courthouse in Anniston led to another shutdown Monday.

By Jay Reeves

3 minute read

December 19, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

State court jurors sided with drug manufacturer Merck & Co. last week and rejected the claims of an Alabama man who blamed the painkiller Vioxx for a heart attack in 2001.

By Jay Reeves The Associated Press

3 minute read

December 01, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has rejected a challenge by fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy to the new corporate fraud law aimed at top executives that was adopted after a series of major accounting scandals.

By Jay Reeves

3 minute read

May 15, 2006 | Law.com

Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about Larry Darby, a candidate for Alabama attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to "reawaken white racial awareness." Founder of the Atheist Law Center, Darby made a bid for the AG job as a Libertarian in 2002, but only recently have some of his views come to light. Said Darby in an interview last week, "It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long."

By Jay Reeves

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