Wire Reports

March 29, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Emmon Smith, who smoked for 40 years before being diagnosed with lung cancer, was initially awarded $7 million in compensatory damages and another $20 million in punitive damages.

By Review staff and wire reports

1 minute read

August 29, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Florida's August consumer confidence remained flat at 77 in August, unchanged since July showing respondents are continuing to show faith in the current economic conditions. Optimism in the national economy for the coming year rose one point and four points to 83 for the next five years.

By Staff and wire reports

2 minute read

August 18, 2005 | National Law Journal

Judge John Roberts has secured the American Bar Association's certification that he is "well qualified" to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Staff and wire reports

2 minute read

February 23, 2012 | Daily Business Review

John Paulson's $23 billion hedge fund has been sued by an investor over Paulson & Co.'s reported $468 million losses in Sino-Forest.

By Review staff and wire reports

2 minute read

January 25, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Bayside Marketplace, Kendall Town Center, Mizner Park, Pembroke Lakes Mall and the Village of Merrick Park owner estructured 74 secured mortgage loans totaling $9.4 billion, allowing 180 subsidiary debtors to emerge from bankruptcy.

By Review staff and wire reports

2 minute read

April 20, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A lawyer from Orange has been sentenced to 5 � years in federal prison for operating a child pornography web site. Forty-six-year-old Eric Gaynor, a solo whose law office was in New Haven, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Hartford. Prosecutors say he ran a porn Internet site for two years that displayed images and offered to sell or rent videos of young boys who were naked, partially clothed or engaged in sexual activity.

By STAFF and WIRE REPORTS

3 minute read

June 06, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former Rite Aid Corp. vice chairman and chief counsel Franklin C. Brown wants a new trial, arguing his conspiracy and obstruction conviction was tainted by secret recordings played to the jury.

By From Staff and Wire Reports

3 minute read

November 23, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Jurors may be told they can consider racial differences between an eyewitness and a defendant in considering the testimony, according to the new set of jury instructions approved by the court.

By Review staff and wire reports

2 minute read

August 13, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Connecticut state attorney general's office has urged a key official to dismiss a $150 million claim filed by a woman who was mauled and disfigured by a chimpanzee that went berserk in 2009.

By STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

4 minute read

March 29, 2004 | National Law Journal

Jurors victimized�and other offbeat items.

By staff and wire reports

2 minute read