Even With the Local Roundup Verdict, Punitive Damages Still Aren't Packing a Punch

I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive ... Read More

Judge slashes Bayer $1.56 billion Roundup verdict to $611 million

jury to Valorie Gunther of New York, Jimmy Draeger of Missouri and Daniel Anderson of California, who blamed their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on their exposure to Roundup. Jurors found Monsanto liable ... Read More

Judge may overturn Pensacola man's 20-year sentence in fatal Nine Mile hit-and-run

Judge Jennie Kinsey told the attorneys and Champitto that she would take time to think about the evidence presented during the hearing, and would file an order making her decision. In the meantime ... Read More

Judge denies Trump's motion to dismiss documents case

Washington — A federal judge ... decision if she ruled against them. Prosecutors wrote that Cannon's requested instructions "rest on an unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise." Any jury ... Read More

Man Who Threatened Judge and Jury in Daniel Riley Case to Stay in Jail

An Illinois man who earlier this month made threats against the judge and jury in the high-profile case involving Janae Edmondson will be staying in jail at least a little longer, as a judge ... Read More

Trump attacks daughter of judge overseeing hush money case

The trial is set to begin April 15. “Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately. His Daughter, Loren, is a Rabid Trump Hater ... Read More

Judge declines to overturn Outcome Health guilty verdicts

A federal judge declined to overturn the fraud convictions of former ... Shah, Agarwal and Purdy were convicted by a jury nearly a year ago of defrauding pharmaceutical companies who paid millions ... Read More

Trump Targets Judge’s Daughter In Third Attack, This Time By Name

For a third time this week, Donald Trump went on an unhinged social media attack targeting the daughter of the judge in ... The case, which stems from a grand jury indictment last year of 34 ... Read More

Special counsel blasts judge’s jury instruction request in Trump documents case

In perhaps prosecutors’ strongest rebuke yet to how Judge ... of the case that has “no basis in law or fact.” Smith’s team harshly critiqued Cannon’s request for jury instructions ... Read More

Judge's split decision allows arbitration of major CPD disciplinary cases, but in public

CHICAGO (CBS) --After a monthslong fight over the future of serious Chicago police disciplinary cases, a Cook County judge ruled Thursday ... In his written decision on Thursday, Mullen said ... Read More

Judge may overturn Pensacola man's 20-year sentence in fatal Nine Mile hit-and-run

The motion goes on to say that Champitto discovered the state's five-year plea offer when he requested his case file to appeal the case in 2020. Assistant State Attorney Matt Gordon, the ... Read More