-
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Californians call for Prop. 65 reforms
SACRAMENTO (Legal Newsline) – As California Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, learned more about Proposition 65 and its impact on small businesses, he heard several stories that struck him as clear abuses of the law. Restaurant and bar owners were … Read More »
- California’s litigious legal climate threatens development, observer says
- Others working to make sure insurers dole out unclaimed property properly
- Kentucky legislator: Unclaimed death benefits becoming ‘huge’ consumer protection issue
- JPML Chair: Multi-district judges becoming more efficient
- Audit firms help states land unpaid death benefits
-
Most Popular Articles
- Bank of America: ‘Surprised and disappointed’ by N.Y. AG’s plans to sue over mortgage settlement
- Maryland AG urges advertisers to pull ads from Ask.fm
- Mich. AG concerned terms of mortgage settlement not being met
- California’s litigious legal climate threatens development, observer says
- Consumer protection agency targets debt-settlement service providers
- House panel passes asbestos trusts transparency bill
- Californians call for Prop. 65 reforms
- Senate committee considers NLRB nominees; ranking GOP member continues to oppose Block, Griffin
- SEC: Capital One, two former executives understated auto loan losses
- Lawmakers, groups applaud support for Srinivasan, but want other D.C. Circuit vacancies filled
Browse the legalnewsline.com Archives
Polls
Loading ...Tags
Asbestos Attorneys General Big Pharma BP Oil Spill California Campaigns & Elections Class Action Connecticut Dickie Scruggs District of Columbia Federal Government Financial Crisis Global Warming Hot Topics Hurricane Katrina Illinois Indiana In the Spotlight Issues Labor Issues Lead Paint Massachusetts Missouri New Jersey News New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania State AGs State Courts States State Supreme Courts State Supreme Courts Sub-Prime Mortgages Tobacco Top Stories Tort Reform U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. District Court U.S. Supreme Court Virginia Washington West Virginia WisconsinNEWS WIDGET
Attention bloggers:
Add Record Headlines to your site!fast + free- click here
Monthly Archives: January 2008
R.I. SC receives lead paint arguments
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Each of the parties in the landmark appeal of a public nuisance lawsuit brought over lead-based paint submitted their arguments to the Rhode Island Supreme Court Thursday.
Read More
Coghlan again ordered to sidelines of Scruggs trial
Scruggs
OXFORD, Miss. – Voluntary waivers of any conflict of interest weren’t enough for a federal judge who on Wednesday again denied the attempts of indicted trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to add an attorney to his defense team.
Read More
TX Justices used campaign funds to commute: watchdog
Justice David Medina
AUSTIN — Two of the Texas Supreme Court’s most embattled Justices are facing more hostile fire over their spending habits. Read More
News, State Supreme CourtsState Farm wants to hear Scruggs’ silence in person
Hood
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – State Farm Insurance Cos. is not on board with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s reluctance to let indicted trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs personally plead the fifth in a deposition.
Read More
Maynard recuses again, provides vacation documentation
Maynard
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – While recusing himself from another case involving Massey Energy, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard also has provided documentation showing he paid for his trip to France in 2006.
Read More
$160K and ‘the meter still is running’
Starcher
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has spent more than $160,000 on a federal court case Massey Energy brought against it over the way justices recuse themselves from cases.
Read More
Justices aren’t on Nationwide’s side this time
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company fumbled three times at the state Supreme Court of Appeals in a futile bid to rewrite an order of Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman. Nationwide pleaded for confidentiality of claim files that Kaufman … Read More
News, State Supreme CourtsMT justices claim overwork as lawyers decry SC delays
Mike McGrath (C)
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court is being criticized by lawyers and their clients for taking too long to resolve cases before it.
Read More
