Verdicts & Settlements

Plavix Patent Upheld

A federal judge in Manhattan today upheld a patent on the blood thinner Plavix. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein said Plavix’s maker, Sanofi-Aventis, was entitled to an injunction barring a competitor’s generic version of the drug for four years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Apotex Inc. had sought to invalidate…

Jun 19, 2007 5:52 PM CDT

Filing Error Costs Gov’t $100 M Tax Bill

Oops. After winning a tax evasion case against a man described as the biggest tax evader in U.S. history, federal prosecutors made a mistake. They cited the wrong statutory language in a written plea agreement with telecommunications entrepreneur Walter Anderson, reports AP. And that means the government can’t recover some…

Jun 19, 2007 1:07 AM CDT

Illegal Bust Was Not Woman’s

A woman wrongly arrested for going topless will receive a $29,000 settlement from the city of New York. The illegal bust was by police, not the woman, according to the New York Post. Artist Jill Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley, was arrested in 2005 for taking…

Jun 18, 2007 2:19 PM CDT

Back in Ball Game: O.J. Book ‘If I Did It’

A highly controversial, near-confessional account by fallen football hero O.J. Simpson of how he might have killed his former wife and a male companion could still be published. The father of Nicole Brown Simpson’s companion, Ron Goldman, can pursue the rights to the book, “If I Did It,” from an…

Jun 15, 2007 8:57 PM CDT

Klansman Guilty for Role in 1964 Murders

The brother of a black youth murdered in 1964 says he’s pleased with the guilty verdict reached yesterday against a member of the Ku Klux Klan for his role in the long-ago crime. “I’m rejoicing for justice in this country,” Thomas Moore told the Clarion-Ledger. Moore’s brother, Charlie Eddie Moore…

Jun 15, 2007 7:24 PM CDT

No Line for Hilton’s Parents at Jail Visit

Despite worldwide publicity critical of the special treatment Paris Hilton has already received, those in charge of the hotel heiress’ California incarceration for probation violation reportedly continue to bend the rules on her behalf. Family members of fellow inmates complained that their visits were delayed by several hours or cut…

Jun 13, 2007 11:26 PM CDT

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Officials Must Specify Subject of Public Meetings

Government officials must specify the subject of public meetings, particularly when they know the subject is likely to be controversial, the Wisconsin Supreme Court says. Ruling today on a parent’s protest that the state’s 30-year-old open meetings law had not been followed when the Tomah Area School District noticed an…

Jun 13, 2007 8:56 PM CDT

No More Prison Time for Preacher’s Wife?

Although she was sentenced today to three years in prison for killing her husband last year with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed in the family home, a Tennessee preacher’s widow may not serve any more time in prison. That’s because Mary Winkler, 33, should…

Jun 8, 2007 10:55 PM CDT

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

It’s Not Easy to Get Clients Who Receive Large Sums to Accept Financial Advice

Sep 24, 2006 8:44 AM CDT

Tote-Ally Ticked

Man Is Miffed When Moms Get Gift, as Last Resort Takes Team to Court

Jul 11, 2006 2:18 PM CDT

The Price is Right

Courts Are Searching For New Ways to Determine Value

Apr 22, 2006 8:28 AM CDT

A Helping of Healing

It’s probably safe to say that most people would recoil at the suggestion that they spend time with hardened criminals and the families of their victims. Not Janine Geske. A former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, she opted after five years on the high court bench to pursue her…

Nov 29, 2005 9:06 AM CST