courts/lawsuits

Four e-scrap companies agreed to pay a combined $937,000 to fund a portion of the cleanup of over 100 million pounds of CRT materials in Phoenix. 

On Friday, T-Mobile asked a judge to order Belmont Trading to pay the $6.08 million that the wireless giant says it's owed. On Tuesday, Belmont Trading filed for bankruptcy protection. 

Copper recycler Aurubis says an audit that's underway will reveal just how much valuable metal has been stolen from its Hamburg, Germany smelter. It could be hundreds of millions of dollars worth. 

At his current rate, the former CEO of 5R Processors will fully pay off his $2 million in court-ordered e-scrap abandonment restitution in roughly 1,200 years. Knowing that, Wisconsin lawmakers just approved allocating another $2 million in public funds to clean up the mess.

A complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission by one of the world's biggest smartphone companies seeks to halt imports of some aftermarket screens into the U.S., threatening the supply of parts to independent repair shops. 

Facing an ongoing lawsuit, the company behind a planned e-scrap smelter near Fort Wayne, Ind. has decided to look to build elsewhere.

A company commercializing its flat-panel device dismantling system in the U.S. has gone to court seeking to invalidate a competitor's patent.

A former CEO of an e-scrap company was sentenced to 33 months in prison for a tax crime, as part of a plea deal that resulted in prosecutors dropping CRT-related charges.

IMS Electronics Recycling will pay $5 million to help clean up CRT materials abandoned at former Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sites in Phoenix. 

An $11.2 million cleanup, $9.6 million property sale and $1 million "orphan share" - those were just a few key figures to emerge as the years-long legal battle over Closed Loop's massive stockpile concludes.