Sentences with phrase «federal jury in»

Five months earlier, a federal jury in Montana fined a landlord $ 37,000 after she charged a disabled tenant $ 1,000 to have a service animal.

Last year, a U.S. federal jury in California ruled that Samsung violated some of Apple's patents and awarded the company based in Cupertino, Calif., damages of nearly $ 1 billion.

As my colleague Andy Frey and I reported in an earlier post, an Illinois federal jury in July returned a $ 150 million punitive verdict against AbbVie without awarding the plaintiff any compensatory damages.

A federal jury in South Dakota found that a woman's use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to her ovarian cancer.

But for Jammie Thomas of Brainerd, Minn., those two - dozen songs will cost $ 222,000, thanks to Thursday's verdict by a federal jury in Duluth in favor of six record companies and the Recording Industry Association of America.

«A former Hartford police detective who claimed that he was fired because he helped blow the whistle on police corruption in Hartford won nearly $ 600,000 in punitive and compensatory damages Wednesday from a federal jury in Bridgeport...»

A funny thing happened this weekend after a federal jury in Boston decided that Joel Tenenbaum should pay $ 675,000 to several record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs.

In a highly publicised decision that caught most music industry watchers off guard, a federal jury in Minneapolis last week handed the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) an unprecedented and overwhelming victory in the form of a $ 1.92 Million (U.S.) award against a mother of four for allegedly file - sharing 24 songs.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos today were found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan on eight counts charging the once - powerful lawmaker used his political influence to force businesses to hire the son.

Percoco was convicted of corruption charges by a Manhattan federal jury in March.

Silver, 72, a once - beloved Lower Manhattan assemblyman and one of the most powerful men in the state, was convicted by a federal jury in November on charges of money laundering and extortion related to two bribery schemes where he earned millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Silver, who was found guilty by a federal jury in November on corruption charges, was originally slated for an April 13 sentencing.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found that the Emigrant Savings Bank had discriminated against eight minority homeowners by purposefully marketing to them subprime mortgages with what were described as predatory interest rates of as much as 18 percent a year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco has been found guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud by a federal jury in Manhattan today.

A federal jury in Manhattan did more than convict one - time gubernatorial uber - confidant Joseph Percoco on felony corruption charges: It also delivered a damning verdict on Gov. Cuomo's stunningly ineffective upstate...

The federal jury in Manhattan returned the verdict Monday after a three - week trial.

A federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes after deliberating for parts of three weeks.

On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, a federal jury in Eastern District of Texas awarded VirnetX Holding Corp. (VHC) with a $ 502.6 million verdict against Apple Inc. finding that Apple was...

David Demos, 36, was found not guilty Thursday of securities fraud by a federal jury in Hartford, Connecticut.

A federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by patent licensing firm Smartflash LLC.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

At trial, a federal jury in Manhattan in 2014 awarded the EMI companies nearly $ 48.1 million, a sum U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan later reduced, resulting in a $ 12.2 million judgment against Robertson.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $ 12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement.

It was just six weeks or so ago that federal juries in Manhattan found two of the state's three most powerful political figures guilty of theft and extortion.

These five men are linked not only by the nature of their crimes but by the fact that federal juries in New York decided that they should not be put to death.

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It also announced that a federal grand jury in California has subpoenaed the chain, requiring it to produce documents related to an August outbreak of norovirus in Simi Valley, California.

A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal political contributions and deadlocked on five other campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.

A federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and a so - called «troll farm» in St. Petersburg on Friday for a broad campaign to sway the 2016 election in Trump's favor.

Jury selection in San Francisco federal court is scheduled to begin on Oct. 10.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

The first salvos were delivered to a 10 - person jury in San Francisco federal court in a civil lawsuit that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business nearly a year after Alphabet Inc's self - driving car unit Waymo sued rival Uber Technologies Inc..

Russian stocks tumbled after a federal grand jury indicted Russian actors for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The deal, which Republicans have painted as evidence of collusion between Clinton and Russia, made its way back into headlines in October, shortly before it emerged that a federal grand jury approved the first charges filed by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

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PG&E already faces fines for its role in a fatal explosion of natural gas in San Bruno in 2010, a federal felony indictment connected to the San Bruno blast, and a federal grand jury probe into a gas explosion in Carmel earlier this year.

Bob is very highly regarded by those in the boardroom and those in the courtroom, having advised senior executives in challenging situations and successfully tried through verdict numerous jury and nonjury trials in the federal and state courts.

The legal problems began in January when a federal grand jury indicted three company officials and a South Texas mayor on charges of fraud and money laundering.

A federal jury found him guilty in 2010, but an appeals court reversed his conviction, ruling that prosecutors misapplied the federal corporate espionage laws against him.

A federal grand jury in Detroit has indicted former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn on charges stemming from the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal.

The superseding indictment was issued by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Michigan and charges Winterkorn with four counts of violating federal law.

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Friday against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating US laws to interfere with US elections and political processes.

On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities fraud.

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Friday against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating US laws to interfere with US elections and political...

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

But a jury in Oregon did just that, acquitting Ammon Bundy and five fellow members of January's armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.