wrongful

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“I was crossing the road. I was not crossing the racetrack,” she testified Tuesday in the civil wrongful death trial against her son’s convicted killer, Rebecca Grossman, and former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

A higher threshold may reduce wrongful interventions but could allow legitimate threats to go undetected.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

But in June, the judge dismissed Baldoni's lawsuit, saying his team had "not adequately alleged that Lively's threats were wrongful extortion rather than legally permissible hard bargaining or renegotiation of working conditions".

From BBC • May 4, 2026

She appealed the verdict in the hope of clearing her name, while prosecutors also did so arguing that the sentence was too lenient and the acquittals were wrongful.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

They had been whispering about Walter's wrongful conviction for years.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson