A state jury returned an $11.9 billion judgment against Exxon Mobil Corp. today in Alabama’s suit over disputed natural gas royalties.

The financially troubled state government won an $11.9 billion verdict against Exxon Mobil Corp. Friday in a suit over disputed natural gas royalties.

Jury deliberations in Alabama’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil went into a second day, with billions at stake for the financially troubled state.

An attorney asked a jury Wednesday to find that Exxon Mobil cheated the state out of natural gas royalties and return a record $9.3 billion verdict against the oil company.

A Montgomery jury deliberated Thursday in a lawsuit in which the state is seeking a record $9.3 billion judgment against Exxon Mobil in a dispute over natural gas royalties.

The state’s lawyers asked a Montgomery jury on Wednesday to slap Exxon Mobil Corp. with a record $9.3 billion verdict, saying the oil giant knowingly cheated the state out of natural gas royalties for years.

MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s suit accusing Exxon Mobil of shortchanging the state on natural gas royalties produced a record verdict of $3.5 billion at the first trial. In the retrial, the state ____ an ever bigger verdict.

Alabama’s suit accusing Exxon Mobil of shortchanging the state on natural gas royalties produced a record verdict of $3.5 billion at the first trial. In the retrial, the state wants an ever bigger verdict.

An attorney asked a jury Wednesday to find that Exxon Mobil cheated the state out of natural gas royalties and return a record $9.3 billion verdict against the oil company.

Next month will mark the 3rd anniversary of a Montgomery jury ruling against Exxon Mobile, the largest verdict in Alabama history. But more that a year after the last brief was filed, state Supreme Court has yet to rile on the oil company’s appeal.