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May 07, 2002 |

Taking a Rational, Academic Approach to Capital Punishment

A group of scholars centered at the State University at Albany is attempting to take a purely rational, strictly academic look at one of the most vexing of all criminal justice debates -- the death penalty. "We are a nonideological group," says one of the founders, James R. Acker, professor of law at the School of Criminal Justice, "We don't care if people are for the death penalty or against it."
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November 12, 2007 |

Plaintiffs' lawyer in crosshairs of judge

A corporation's worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs' lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has unflinchingly taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But the 61-year-old Mississippi lawyer may have finally met his match in a controversial and outspoken Alabama federal judge who's holding him in criminal contempt.
8 minute read
November 14, 2007 |

Judge targets lawyer for ignoring order

A corporation's worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs' lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has unflinchingly taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But the 61-year-old Mississippi lawyer may have finally met his match in a controversial and outspoken Alabama federal judge.
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April 29, 2002 |

Taking a Rational Approach to Capital

ALBANY With a topic as emotionally charged as capital punishment, objective analysis often yields to hyperbole. But a group of scholars centered at the State University at Albany is attempting to take a purely rational, strictly academic look at one of the most vexing of all criminal justice debates.
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November 13, 2007 |

Famed Plaintiffs Lawyer in Federal Judge's Crosshairs

A corporation's worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But he may have finally met his match in the controversial and outspoken U.S. District Judge William M. Acker Jr., who has held Scruggs in criminal contempt for failing to abide by a court order to return allegedly purloined documents he received from two former employees of a State Farm contractor.
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November 16, 2007 |

Entire district court recuses from Scruggs case

In an explosive development in the Richard Scruggs criminal contempt case, the entire Northern District of Alabama has recused itself, leaving the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to pick a judge in another district.
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March 12, 2007 |

Superior Court Uncertain About Faxing Appeals

A divided Superior Court panel has agreed in a case of first impression to accept an appeal by fax, but the lead opinion in the case said such filing should generally be considered unacceptable.
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March 07, 2005 |

Court Lets Metabolife Off the Hook in $3.5M Case

Jonathan [email protected] the plaintiffs' experts took unreliable "leaps of faith," a federal appeals panel has thrown out a $3.5 million verdict for four people who claimed they suffered strokes or heart attacks as a result of taking the weight loss supplement Metabolife 356.Wednesday's decision was the latest chapter in the legal saga over the appetite suppressant's primary ingredient, ephedra.
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March 08, 2005 |

11th Circuit Lets Metabolife off the Hook in $3.5M Case

Saying plaintiffs' experts took "leaps of faith," an 11th Circuit panel has tossed a $3.5 million verdict for four people who claimed they suffered strokes or heart attacks after taking the weight loss supplement Metabolife 356. The decision was the latest chapter in a legal saga over the appetite suppressant's primary ingredient, ephedra. This month a New York federal judge is expected to hear arguments about a proposed global class action settlement in which Metabolife would pay up to $1.05 million.
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