A federal jury recently acquitted four Teamsters on charges of criminally threatening the host of the popular cooking competition show “Top Chef.” Michael Abcarian of Fisher Phillips examines how the dispute escalated into a criminal extortion prosecution and where the line is drawn between criminality and lawful conduct when union members threaten an employer who uses nonunion workers. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) ...

One of the 12 jurors who acquitted a group of Massachusetts Teamsters of trying to strong-arm the “Top Chef” television production into hiring them for unneeded truck-driving work said prosecutors failed to prove the defendants knew they were trying to do something against federal law. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Lawyers for Evan Greebel, the former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney accused of helping Martin Shkreli pull off securities fraud, said Friday they were “shocked and dismayed” prosecutors haven’t dropped a conspiracy charge against Greebel that Shkreli himself was acquitted of earlier this month. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Four Massachusetts Teamsters were acquitted Tuesday of trying to strong-arm a “Top Chef” television production into hiring union labor at a picket that turned violent. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A Louisiana dentist was acquitted Friday of insider trading charges brought over claims that he traded on nonpublic information provided by his brother-in-law, a former executive of engineering company The Shaw Group, about a pending merger that would send company stock soaring. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A Brooklyn federal jury on Friday convicted an Italian man prosecutors said created a global network of hijacked computers with obtaining unauthorized information, acquitting him of the more serious charges of cyber intrusion, wire fraud and conspiracy. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Last month, a jury acquitted police officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter for killing black motorist Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castile was a victim of America’s mass-production approach to criminal justice, which features largely unaccountable and inadequately trained police enforcing frequently unjustifiable laws in a system riddled with disregard for fundamental fairness, says Clark Neily of the Cato Institute. ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts said Friday he will release the names of jurors who convicted a pharmacist of fraud and acquitted him of murder — and indicated, with an unusual series of numbers, how they were voting. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former saleswoman connected to a $ 30 million Russian microchip export scheme asked a New York federal judge on Friday to prevent a retrial on two charges, saying she cannot be retried on the conspiracy charge and should be acquitted on the other. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former state district judge in Texas, who had to leave the bench and had her law license suspended following her conviction on nine felony charges for bribery and money laundering, was declared innocent Wednesday, acquitted of all charges after the state agreed the evidence couldn’t support her conviction. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))