Union Carbide Tries To Remove Judge in $322 Million Asbestos Case

An asbestos lawsuit that once resulted in a $322 million verdict for a Mississippi man has turned in favor of the company he sued.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An appeals court heard arguments from Union Carbide and the U.S. government on Thursday as the company fought to use a tax credit retroactively for research it did in the 1990s to improve manufacturing processes. A decision in favor of Union Carbide would widen the scope of the research and development tax credit, part of the corporate tax code that costs U.S. taxpayers roughly $7 billion a year. Union Carbide is a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. The case involves process improvements researched in 1994 and 1995. ...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co is challenging the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in a rare court case over expanding the research and development tax credit to cover the costs of supplies used to improve the ways existing products are made. Oral arguments are set for Thursday at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in a case that pits Union Carbide, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow , against the IRS. A win for Dow would widen the scope of the R&D credit - a mainstay of the corporate tax code that costs U.S. ...

India's Supreme Court turned down on Wednesday a government demand to re-open the case into the Bhopal gas tragedy and hand harsher sentences to seven men convicted of negligence.The 1984 Bhopal accident, blamed on Union Carbide, a US chemical group that ran the plant, killed thousands instantly and tens of thousands more from its lingering effects in the following years.

A 13-year-old boy who allegedly brought a gun and ammunition to his Toronto elementary school won’t face a trial after a judge ruled he was improperly strip-searched at the police station. Ontario Court Judge David Cole stayed the gun possession and assault charges against the boy because he found his charter rights were violated, but not without some stern words for both the boy and Toronto police.

TORONTO — An Ontario judge has ruled that a woman must remove her face-covering veil to testify against the men she is accusing of sexual assault. The judge says the woman’s niqab “masks her demeanour and blocks both effective cross-examination by counsel for the accused and assessment of her credibility by the trier of fact.” The 37-year-old woman, known only as N.S., alleges two men sexually assaulted her over five years, starting when she was six years old.

An appeals court heard arguments from Union Carbide and the U.S. government on Thursday as the company fought to use a tax credit retroactively for research it did in the 1990s to improve manufacturing ...