Civil Rights
Feb. 19, 2019
Uncontested wrongful death trial results in $41M judgment
In a rare, uncontested wrongful death bench trial, the family of a woman brutally murdered by a Hollywood director was awarded $41.6 million when neither defendant nor counsel showed up to trial.
In a rare, uncontested wrongful death bench trial, the family of a woman brutally murdered by a Hollywood director was awarded $41.6 million when neither defendant nor counsel showed up to court.
"Not something you see often," plaintiffs' attorney Thomas J. Conroy of The Simon Law Group LLP said Friday after the verdict was handed down. Heir to a Toronto real estate fortune, Blake Leibel, 38, was found guilty in 2018 of brutally tor...
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