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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))

Former Warner Chilcott President Carl Reichel was acquitted by a federal jury in Boston on Friday morning on a charge that he participated in a sweeping scheme to bribe doctors with pricey meals and speaking fees. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Former Warner Chilcott President Carl Reichel was acquitted by a federal jury in Boston on Friday morning on a charge that he participated in a sweeping scheme to bribe doctors with pricey meals and speaking fees. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

More than 100 former state attorneys general have signed on to an amici brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn former Alabama governor Don Siegelman’s six-and-a-half-year sentence for bribery, saying acquitted conduct should not be used to increase a criminal sentence as it was in Siegelman’s case. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The Fifth Circuit refused Thursday to disturb a 20-year prison sentence a lower court handed to the ex-mayor of a Louisiana city for allegedly taking bribes in exchange for government contracts, after the appeals court had vacated an earlier sentence. Law360: acquitted

Adam Freedman has written an interesting piece on getting sued even though you may have been in the right. For instance, Freedman covers the case where a burger breaks into the home and is shot dead by the homeowner. The homeowner is then sued by the family of the burglar and then forced to pay a settlement, when they are ...

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction of former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin on charges related to a purported scheme that doled out contracts in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, rejecting Nagin’s claims that jury instructions regarding honest services fraud were in error. Law360: acquitted