For me, it was surreal to see W.R. Grace Vice President William Corcoran on the witness stand in the Missoula courtroom in the criminal trial last week.
He is the boss of public and regulatory affairs for the world wide company, which means he deals with the press and congress and he’s well suited to do [...]

Two workdays and counting until the jury in the W.R. Grace criminal case is presented closing argument and then huddles to render its justice.
The past week was a kaleidoscope of colors and emotions as the defense rushed to wrap up its arguments of innocence to the jury.
Charges were dropped against two Grace executives because the [...]

It’s a bit bizarre to me to be sitting in the back row of a Montana courtroom listening to another day of testimony in the criminal trial of W.R. Grace, while at the same time writing about reported cleanup problems of the lethal mess the same company made in the town of Libby.
Just to keep [...]

A lot happened in the Missoula courtroom of Judge Donald Molloy Tuesday. I’m just not sure what it all means.
I’m going to bow to learned lawyers, reporters smarter that I am and just about anyone else to try to sort out the winners and losers in the criminal trial of W.R. Grace.
Here’s what I do [...]

While significant attention in the criminal trial of W.R. Grace has been focused on yet-to-be-proven allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, an increasing number of readers of this blog and elsewhere are questioning whether Judge Donald Molloy’s actions should be scrutinized.
Good question. Judges have enormous latitude in what they can do in their courtrooms.
Having said that, in [...]

Grace lawyers filed a 75-page motion Thursday outlining their reasons why Judge Donald Molloy should end the criminal trial against the company and its former executives now.
To save you all some reading, I’ll tell you how their story ends.
On the 74th page the lawyers wrote:
“CONCLUSION
The indictment must be dismissed with prejudice.”
The phrase “with prejudice” [...]

The W.R. Grace criminal trial has been recessed for a week and the prosecution has not rested its case. Asst. U.S. Attorney Kris McLean said he had called his last witnesses and was expected to rest it’s case Tuesday after dickering with the judge to get dozens of documents introduced into evidence.
That didn’t happen.
According to [...]

The seats in the federal courtroom in Missoula were packed cheek-to-cheek and more people blocked the doorway to watch the battle Friday by W.R. Grace lawyers to end the largest environmental criminal trial in U.S. history before it ever gets to a jury.
The conductor for today’s unbalanced symphony was Grace’s thousand-dollar-an-hour top lawyer, David Bernick, [...]

Writing a blog is supposed to be fun. And most of the time, I enjoy it.
You can pontificate on things you know nothing about, express opinions on subjects that no one but you care about, get outraged at what you think is absurd. And, generally, make a complete fool of  yourself over the entire nano-size [...]

With the deadline for wrapping up its part of the trial just three court days away, the prosecution continues to try to prove its conspiracy charges against W.R. Grace by bringing in another expert on workers sickened by exposure to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from Libby, Mont.
Dr. James Lockey, an authority in occupational medicine and a specialist [...]