Monthly Archives: February 2009

Cuomo demands better answers from Bank of America

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Cuomo

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Unhappy with the results of a deposition, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Bank of America as he attempts to find out if the company misled investors
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News, State AGs

Coca-Cola: AGs’ allegations wrong

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ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Enviga, the calorie-burning drink that was the subject of a settlement Thursday, was never promoted as a weight-loss product, a spokesman for Coca-Cola said.
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News, State AGs

Montana AG: BNSF overcharges wheat farmers

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Steve Bullock (D)

HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline)-Wheat farmers in Montana are being price gouged to ship grain by rail, the state attorney general’s office said in a report.
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News, State AGs

Countrywide loan modification ‘a landmark model’?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-As the first 90 days of Bank of America’s new loan modification program draws to a close in California, the attorney general’s office said the program has already helped thousands to keep their homes. But critics, most … Read More »

News, State AGs

Settlement reached over ‘calorie-burning’ drink

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Blumenthal

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Two years after he began his investigation, Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal is one of several state attorneys general celebrating a settlement with Coke, Nestle and Beverage Partnership Worldwide.
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News, State AGs

Chesapeake partly blames verdict for W.Va. exit

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) — Chesapeake Energy Corp. says a huge verdict against it in a Roane County case over natural gas royalties is one of the reasons the energy giant is moving the majority of its Charleston-based jobs.
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Hot Topics, News

Mims tapped as Virginia’s new AG

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Mims

RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – With Bob McDonnell stepping down, the Virginia General Assembly has picked his chief deputy to become the state’s attorney general.
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Zach Scruggs returns to Miss.

TUPELO, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The son of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is out of an Arkansas prison and back in Mississippi. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported Thursday that Zach Scruggs has been moved to a community … Read More »

Dickie Scruggs, Hot Topics, News

AG candidate joins foreclosure freeze advocates in national, statewide push

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Ted Lieu (D)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — An idea that began in California as a grassroots appeal from beleaguered working-class homeowners has spurred national loan modification legislation and a new state foreclosure moratorium bill signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Read More »

Hot Topics, News, Sub-Prime Mortgages

Illinois AG: Burris’s Senate term can be cut short

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Lisa Madigan (D)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-Illinois lawmakers can cut embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris’s term short by setting a special election, state Attorney General Lisa Madigan wrote in a formal opinion. Read More »

News, State AGs