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.

The Alabama Supreme Court refused a last-minute request by Exxon Mobil to stop jury selection Wednesday for the retrial of the state’s record-setting lawsuit against the oil company.

The Alabama Supreme Court refused a last-minute request by Exxon Mobil to stop jury selection Wednesday for the retrial of the state’s record-setting lawsuit against the oil company.

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw is in town helping lawyers for Exxon in the fraud case brought against the huge corporation by the State of Alabama.

With the filing deadline fast approaching, thousands of mortgage customers in Florida have yet to claim their share of a $23 million predatory-lending settlement with finance giant Household International, Inc., state officials say.

ANNISTON, ALA (August 26, 2003) – In a landmark case involving approximately 18,000 plaintiffs, The Cochran Firm announced that they have reached a $700 million environmental case settlement against defendant Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia, Inc. The plaintiffs, consisting of Anniston, Alabama…