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Federal jury awards $120M to coal firm in defamation, RICO go well with in opposition to lawyer
An Alabama federal jury returned a $120 million verdict Thursday in opposition to a former Conrad & Scherer managing associate as a part of a defamation and racketeering lawsuit in opposition to the legal professional. (Picture from Shutterstock)
An Alabama federal jury returned a $120 million verdict Thursday in opposition to a former Conrad & Scherer managing associate as a part of a defamation and racketeering lawsuit in opposition to the legal professional, in accordance with a story by by Law360.
A jury within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of Alabama awarded the Drummond Co., a coal firm based mostly in Birmingham, Alabama, $26 million in compensatory and $26 million in punitive damages in opposition to legal professional Terrence Collingsworth on the defamation claims and $68 million on the claims underneath the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, in accordance with the story.
Due to the trebling of damages underneath the RICO statute, the award will find yourself totaling $256 million, in accordance with the Drummond Co.’s attorneys at Starnes Davis Florie, the story mentioned.
Collingsworth, a managing associate of Florida-based Conrad & Scherer’s Washington, D.C., workplace from 2008 by means of 2015, started submitting fits in 2002 alleging that the Drummond Co. paid a paramilitary group that supplied safety to homicide three union leaders in Colombia, in accordance with Law360. Most of the fits have been dismissed.
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