Latest Dallas County jury Stories

DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a civil trial that sounded like a real life James Bond spy novel, a Dallas County Jury awarded Southlake Aviation, owned by Dallas business executive David Disiere, $32.4 million in damages against Houston based oil company, CAMAC International, its subsidiary CAMAC Aviation, and Mickey Lawal CAMAC's Vice President of African Operations. The case stemmed from a scheme in which CAMAC International and its officers used a Gulfstream V jet...

DALLAS, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A Dallas County jury has awarded more than $178 million to minority shareholders of an NL Industries, Inc. subsidiary who alleged that a pattern of misconduct deprived them of the true value of their investment. Defendants included Dallas-based NL Industries, its subsidiary NL Environmental Management Services, Inc. (NL EMS) and Dallas businessman Harold Simmons, who controls NL Industries. The verdict was delivered late Friday, July 17, 2009 in the 192nd...