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Florida Jury Returns $779M Verdict for Family of Security Guard Killed at Gambling Cafe

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Florida Jury Returns $779M Verdict for Family of Security Guard Killed at Gambling Cafe

A Gadsden County, Florida, jury awarded $779 million, believed to be a record for the county near Tallahassee, to the family of a security guard who was killed at what was called an illegal internet gambling café in 2023. Ben Crump, the high-profile lawyer who has handled civil rights lawsuits around the country, represented the […]

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Landlords Hit With $21.5M Verdict for Hiring Sex Offender Who Set Tenants on Fire

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Landlords in Baltimore are being held liable for hiring a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal record who then attacked two tenants and set them on fire, with a jury awarding the victims $21.5 million. The same man murdered a tech CEO just days after attacking April Hurley and Jonte Gilmore in their home

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Businessman, Former Federal Insurance Co. Attorney Hit With $50M Florida Verdict

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Businessman, Former Federal Insurance Co. Attorney Hit With $50M Florida Verdict

In a lawsuit begun more than a decade ago and which led to counter-suits, appeals to the Florida Supreme Court and attention from national tort-reform groups, a Palm Beach County jury has awarded more than $50 million to the former head of Marvel Entertainment and his wife, who said a neighbor and an attorney for

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MIT Grad Brothers Fraud Jury Unable to Reach a Verdict

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MIT Grad Brothers Fraud Jury Unable to Reach a Verdict

A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the fraud trial of two brothers, both recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who were accused of stealing roughly $25 million in cryptocurrency from traders on the Ethereum blockchain. US District Judge Jessica Clarke declared a mistrial Friday in the case against James Peraire-Bueno,

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GoDaddy Hit With $170M Patent Verdict Over Web-Design Tech

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GoDaddy Hit With $170M Patent Verdict Over Web-Design Tech

Internet domain registrar GoDaddy GDDY.N owes a patent owner $170 million for violating its rights in website-building technology, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Friday. The jury agreed with Express Mobile that GoDaddy’s web-design tools infringe two of its patents. GoDaddy said in a statement that it disagrees with the

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Washington Supreme Court Restores $185M Monsanto Chemical Leak Verdict

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Washington Supreme Court Restores $185M Monsanto Chemical Leak Verdict

A U.S. court reinstated a $185 million verdict against Bayer’s Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Washington state school on Thursday. The Washington state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that had vacated the verdict in a 2021 trial over claims brought by three teachers at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington.

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Colorado Jury Says Liability Waiver Doesn’t Shield Vail From $21M Ski Lift Fall Verdict

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A $21 million jury verdict against Vail Resorts for a paralyzing ski lift fall shows that liability waivers — those documents often written in legalese that people must sign before taking part in an activity— aren’t ironclad legal protection for businesses in the recreation industry, according to attorneys with experience in similar cases. If a

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Trump to Ask Supreme Court to Toss Carroll’s $5 Million Abuse and Defamation Verdict

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President Donald Trump will soon ask the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her, his lawyers said in a recent court filing. Trump’s lawyers previewed the move as they asked

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Tesla Rejected $60M Settlement Before Losing $243M Autopilot Verdict

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Tesla Rejected $60M Settlement Before Losing $243M Autopilot Verdict

Billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit over the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S before a jury this month awarded a $243 million verdict in the case. Lawyers for the plaintiffs disclosed the settlement proposal in a filing on Monday in the federal

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