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Jurors in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial will be allowed to hear evidence that the accuser’s mother had made allegations of improper touching against store security guards, a judge ruled Friday. Attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. made the allegations during motions on whether evidence could be admitted about the family’s lawsuit against J.C. Penney. The family […]

A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed Russian oil company YUKOS’ U.S. bankruptcy case, saying the issue belonged in a forum that included the participation of the Russian government The ruling, which came just hours after a summit between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, ends two months of legal maneuvering by YUKOS

A tiny upstart in the cigarette business threatens to topple a comfortable cartel engineered by big tobacco companies and their strange bedfellows, the state attorneys general. Big tobacco was supposed to come under harsh punishment for decades of deception when it acceded to a tort settlement seven years ago. Philip Morris, R.J.Reynolds, Lorillard and Brown

A defense attorney who investigators say has ties to the New York Mafia is quitting the legal team of reputed Connecticut underboss Anthony Megale, a move that avoids a public hearing on whether there are conflicts of interests in the case. New York attorney Joseph Corozzo was captured on video hobnobbing with Gambino family brass

Houston’s Southern District courthouse will this week place two markers on the face of the energy business, with key decisions expected in the controversial break-up of Yukos and the trial of Enron’s former top executives. Judge Letitia Clark will decide whether the dismembered Russian oil group can continue its battle with the Russian government through

A jury Friday ordered the Boston Herald to pay $2.1 million for libeling a Superior Court judge, saying it misquoted him as telling lawyers that a 14-year-old rape victim should “get over it.” In a case closely watched by the media and legal communities, a jury deliberated for more than 20 hours over five days

An MCI Inc. shareholder has sued to block the company’s $6.8 billion takeover by Verizon Communications Inc., saying the price was too low, according to a published report Sunday. The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, said MCI and its board of directors breached their fiduciary duties “by depriving MCI’s public stockholders of maximum value

A former executive at Boeing, Michael M. Sears, once in line to become chief executive, was sentenced on Friday to four months in prison for his role in illegally recruiting a former top Air Force official to work for the company. Mr. Sears, 57, stood before the court and said he was ashamed of his

A group of eight former lawyers with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault on Thursday filed to take their former employer into involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy, an unusual move that could complicate the firm’s plans to liquidate. The Chapter 11 petition, filed Feb. 17 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts, seeks to

Dickie Scruggs, a Mississippi trial lawyer who led the charge against Big Tobacco in the 1990s, helping 46 states win a $246 billion settlement, once described the features of a “magic jurisdiction” in America’s tort system. Speaking at an asbestos conference in 2002, he said that such a place would have judges elected with “verdict