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...While the order pertains to Alabama, it may embolden plaintiffs, legislatures and courts in other states to follow suit....
...While his historically black campus, Alabama A&M, was so starved of funds that potholes went unfilled and broken elevators unfixed, the mainly white campus across town, the University of Alabama at Huntsville...
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina are in the top 10 for broiler chickens....
...On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge in Alabama found that the Big Four firm’s failure to catch a years-long fraud involving made-up mortgages at Colonial Bank amounted to professional negligence....
...One year later, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus. By the time she heard the ruling on 17 May 1954, Brown was attending a fully integrated junior high school....
...The judgment was about 30 times larger than the $2.5m awarded to an Alabama man in 2015 who sued J&J after developing size 46DD breasts....
...The plaintiff, the bankruptcy trustee of TBW, had been seeking $5.5bn plus punitive damages....
...Steven Thomas, lead trial lawyer for the plaintiff, declined to comment on Friday’s settlement....
...In one 2006 document produced by the plaintiffs, the intern — charged with identifying assets pledged as collateral — reports back that she “feels” the collateral is adequate....
...The plaintiffs, acting on behalf of TBW’s bankruptcy trustee, are seeking $5.5bn plus punitive damages, in the biggest ever trial of an audit firm....
...notify regulators about a Takata airbag explosion involving an Accord that occurred in Alabama in 2004....
...The “cover-up” allegations are made by the states of Louisiana and Alabama and private sector plaintiffs suing BP for damages over the spill, and also by Transocean and Halliburton, two companies involved...
...The first week of phase two, covering the effort to stop the leak, pits BP against an alliance of the states of Louisiana and Alabama, private sector plaintiffs, and Transocean and Halliburton, companies...
...The alliance of private sector plaintiffs, the states of Louisiana and Alabama, Transocean and Halliburton, known as the “aligned parties”, makes a startling allegation: that BP deliberately rejected solutions...
...In recent months BP has become embroiled in a bitter dispute with Mr Juneau over his administration of the settlement, which the company agreed with most private party plaintiffs last year....
...Earlier this month, BP said it had uncovered “new evidence”, including a call to the company’s “fraud hotline” suggesting that one or more employees at the claims processing centre in Mobile, Alabama, had...
...The Supreme Court has recently been taking a restrictive view of when plaintiffs can join together in a class action, and a settlement that includes a law firm in northern Alabama and a shrimp shack on the...
...“The more liberal members pressed both the narrow argument that an Alabama county was not a proper plaintiff because it inevitably would be covered and the broader argument that there was a sufficient record...
...Lawyers for the US government, private sector plaintiffs and the states of Alabama and Louisiana also argued that BP’s contractors Transocean, owner of the rig, and Halliburton, which supplied cement intended...
...Unlike other litigants in the chorus of class actions that has already been filed alleging loss from Libor manipulation, the Alabama plaintiffs claim damage was wrought by Libor ticking up rather than down...
...Responses will be submitted by the private sector plaintiffs, the US federal government, the states of Louisiana and Alabama, and by BP, Transocean and Halliburton, the three companies left in the first...
...They have generally played a secondary role in the trial, behind the US Department of Justice and lawyers for private sector plaintiffs....
...Jo Bonner, a Republican congressman from Alabama, criticised attempts by BP to argue that the volume of oil spilled was much lower than the government’s highest estimate of 4.9m barrels....
...Alabama has also been taking a tough line....
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