A federal jury in Opelika on Wednesday awarded the city of Columbus, Ga., and other plaintiffs $20.7 million in an air pollution lawsuit filed against a Phenix City carbon black plant.

A federal jury in Opelika on Wednesday awarded the city of Columbus, Ga., and other plaintiffs $20.7 million in an air pollution lawsuit filed against a Phenix City carbon black plant.

Each month, the Montgomery plaintiffs firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles sends thousands of lawyers, reporters and other folks its monthly newsletter, “The Jere Beasley Report,” which is named after the former lieutenant governor and the firm’s lead partners.

A Henry County jury awarded a record $2.9 million verdict in a securities fraud case July 13, 2004.

The Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University has announced its graduating class of 2003-2004.

People with claims in the $300 million PCBs pollution settlement can comment at a federal court hearing in Anniston on the method of payment. A three-day hearing begins May 25, replacing workshops originally scheduled to explain and gather comment on the “payment matrix.” Settlement mone…

A claim that General Motors Corp., in a cost-cutting move, reduced crash-worthiness of the front passenger compartment of a 1993 Oldsmobile Delta 88-leading to a devastating brain injury to a 12-year-old boy-has led to a $122 million verdict against the automaker.

A lawsuit that resulted in a $122 million verdict against General Motors in 2002 – one of the ten largest that year – was settled this month as attorneys prepared for new trial in the case.

A case involving a Bullock County man that has man made its way through the Alabama court system was settled last Friday.

The death of a teenager last week from liver failure is raising questions anew about an antidepressant that continues to be available in the U.S. despite having been removed from the market in other countries.