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BP Oil Spill Trial Resumes In New Orleans

Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013
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he trial regarding the April 20, 2010 blow-out of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico resumed today in New Orleans before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, sitting without a jury. ...

ExxonMobil Pennsylvania Subsidiary Charged With Dumping Fracking Waste

Posted On Thursday, September 12, 2013
By: Christopher A. Iacono

XTO Energy Inc., a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp., has been charged with illegally discharging more than 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well...

Third Circuit: Courts Can’t Grant Witnesses Immunity

Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013

Federal judges are out of the witness-immunity business. Tossing aside decades-old precedent that had been rejected by the other federal courts of appeals, the Third Circuit ruled recently...

Ex-Chicago White Sox Executive Gets 2 Years For Kickback Scheme

Posted On Friday, August 30, 2013
By: Christopher A. Iacono

A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that resulted in more than $400,000 from inflated signing bonuses for Latin...

Third Circuit Draws The Line On 404(B)

Posted On Wednesday, August 14, 2013
By: Douglas K. Rosenblum

On August 9, 2013 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a precedential opinion limiting the admissibility of prior criminal convictions under Federal Rule of Evidence...

New Jersey Creates Unit To Investigate Employee Pension Fraud

Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013
By: Christopher A. Iacono

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has created a new unit to investigate fraud and abuse in the state's pension and benefit systems and spur civil and criminal prosecutions against...

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BP Oil Spill Trial Resumes In New Orleans

ExxonMobil Pennsylvania Subsidiary Charged With Dumping Fracking Waste

Third Circuit: Courts Can’t Grant Witnesses Immunity

Ex-Chicago White Sox Executive Gets 2 Years For Kickback Scheme

Third Circuit Draws The Line On 404(B)

New Jersey Creates Unit To Investigate Employee Pension Fraud

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