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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to apply more narrowly a law used to prosecute white-collar crime in response to three separate cases involving the so-called honest services law. The decisions were unanimous.In Skilling v. United States, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appealed his conviction under the law, arguing that the law is too vague. He was convicted in 2006 on 19 charges of fraud and lying to auditors after Enron collapsed because the company had lied about earnings to inflate stock prices.Skilling claimed that he did not receive a fair trial in Houston because of media coverage of the company collapse made it impossible for the court to provide an impartial jury. The court rejected that claim by a 6-3 verdict.The court agreed that the us
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GALVESTON, Texas AP 鈥?The parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston cannot be held responsible for what happened, a jury decided Monday.The victims lawsuit sought to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018. The lawsuit alleged the parents failed to provide necessary support for their sons mental health and didnt do enough to prevent him from accessing their guns.READ MORE: Classes resume at Texas school for first time since shootingJurors did, however, hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis responsible and awarded families more than $200 million total in damages, including for pain and mental anguish.Authorities say Pagourtzis fatally shot eight students
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