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Latest News in Trials

  • May 01, 2026

    Exxon Ex-CEO Tells Jury Company Didn't Mislead Investors

    Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson testified Friday that the company followed rules dictating annual reports to investors when it came to detailing its Kearl Lake reserves, telling a jury in Texas federal court that the energy giant did not mislead investors.

  • May 01, 2026

    Judge, Atty Get In Shouting Match At Fatal Overdose Trial

    Tensions boiled over in a Philadelphia courtroom Friday at the end of an emotionally fraught trial over a man's fatal opioid overdose, with a judge and lawyer shouting at each other about how to figure out an inconclusive verdict spurred by a seemingly confused juror.

  • May 01, 2026

    Fla. Jury Hears Menthol Smoker Succumbed To Addiction

    A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.

  • May 01, 2026

    Weinstein Atty Features Rape Accuser's Warm Words For Him

    On cross-examination Friday, an attorney for Harvey Weinstein repeatedly confronted the woman accusing the longtime Hollywood producer of rape with her own kind words for him, but the witness remained firm in her assault claims.

  • May 01, 2026

    What To Watch For As Meta Stares Down NM Injunction Trial

    The attorney general who convinced a jury to penalize Meta Platforms Inc. $375 million for teen mental health harms now faces a critical follow-up bench trial to fight for a suite of court orders that Meta claims would force "a different Instagram to exist in New Mexico."

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