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Judge: Text Sender Can't Be Sued in Crash

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:06 CDT

Should the person who sends a text message to a driver be held liable if an accident occurs? A judge in New Jersey says no. He threw out a lawsuit today against a young woman who texted her boyfriend moments before he crashed into two motorcyclists, reports the Star-Ledger . "I...

McNamee: Wife Nagged Me to Save Clemens Evidence

Kevin Spak — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:21:13 CDT

Brian McNamee says that he's got physical evidence that Roger Clemens used steroids thanks to his wife's foresight/complaining. McNamee took the stand again today and testified that while he was injecting Clemens with steroids, his wife was constantly warning him that if something went wrong, "You're going to go down....

Prosecutors Release Zimmerman Witness List

Kevin Spak — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:39:57 CDT

Prosecutors gave the public a small, censored look at their case against George Zimmerman yesterday, delivering an eight-page list of witnesses it intends to call to the stand and evidence it intends to use. It also sent evidence to Zimmerman's defense team, though the team would say only that it...

Jamie Dimon Should Be on Trial

Matt Cantor — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:48:33 CDT

JPMorgan lost $2 billion last week, and it's time for the bank's CEO to answer for it. Congressional questioning isn't enough: Jamie Dimon should be required, ideally on prime-time TV, "to answer questions plainly and clearly, to an unfriendly audience of non-Davos people," Alex Pareene writes at Salon . We could...

Man Hurls Shoe at Breivik, Hits Lawyer

Matt Cantor — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:37:44 CDT

An onlooker at the trial of Anders Behring Breivik launched a shoe at the admitted killer today, shouting, "Go to hell, go to hell, you killed my brother." The throw marked the first public interruption of the trial, Reuters notes, and it was met with applause, tears, and cries of...

'Bunny' Money Was Gift for Edwards: Lawyer

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:25:05 CDT

Another prosecution witness in the John Edwards trial may have just helped torpedo the prosecution. The lawyer for Rachel "Bunny" Mellon testified today that the billionaire heiress gave Edwards payments as gifts, not campaign contributions, MSNBC reports. Falsely labeled for furniture purchases, the checks were always intended to help Edwards...

Google 'Violated Copyright' But Dodges $1B-Bullet

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:28:09 CDT

A federal jury in San Francisco has reached an impasse on a key issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, handing the database-software company a major setback. Oracle had been seeking up to $1 billion in damages on copyright claims after alleging that Google Inc. built its popular Android mobile...

Jennifer Hudson's Fame Hangs Over Murder Trial

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:14:29 CDT

Is anyone here not a fan of Jennifer Hudson? Defense attorneys may be wondering that tomorrow as they begin questioning prospective jurors for the trial of William Balfour , the man who allegedly shot and killed Hudson's family , the AP reports. Some in the jury pool gasped last week when Judge...

Allen Stanford Found Guilty in $7B Ponzi Scheme

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:00:05 CST

Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was convicted today on all but one of the 14 counts he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years. Jurors reached their verdicts against...