Monthly Archives: July 2010

Cuomo probes six more life insurers

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Cuomo

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed six additional insurers as the State continues its probe into whether life insurance companies have defrauded families of deceased military members.
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News, State AGs

EPA won’t reconsider greenhouse gases stance

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Cuccinelli

RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s challenge to the federal government’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are dangerous to humans has failed on the regulatory front.
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News, State AGs

Ten who had to face the press

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Eliot Spitzer, New York’s former attorney general and governor, knows something about making headlines — for good and bad reasons. This fall, Spitzer will be co-hosting a roundtable television show for CNN. Legal Newsline takes a look at 10 other state attorneys general who made the wrong kind of headlines, like Spitzer did when his participation in a prostitution ring was revealed.
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News

D.C. mayor-hopeful wants AG Nickles out

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Nickles

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – District of Columbia Council Chair and mayoral candidate Vincent Gray has called for the removal of the district’s Attorney General Peter Nickles, saying he betrayed the public’s trust.
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News, State AGs

Miss. gov to AG: BP lawsuit would knot claims process

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Barbour

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour asked the state’s Attorney General Jim Hood on Wednesday to refrain from filing a lawsuit against oil giant BP in the wake of the Gulf oil spill.
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News, State AGs

AG Brown says Whitman’s pants are on fire

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Brown

SACRAMENTO (Legal Newsline) – California Attorney General Jerry Brown is calling out gubernatorial opponent Meg Whitman on her “false” and “misleading” ads in a new Web ad of his own.
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Campaigns & Elections, News

Sexual harassment suit against Playboy goes to trial

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – The trial of a former master control operator at Playboy television who alleged she was sexually harassed and fired without reason while recovering from surgery began Wednesday. Julie Crouch said she was sexually harassed while … Read More »

Hot Topics, News, Unusual Lawsuits

Coakley still looking through real estate section

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Coakley

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced on Tuesday that she has obtained a consent judgment against a landlord who allegedly posted a discriminatory housing advertisement.
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News, State AGs

Ore. AG sues Canadian furniture company

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Kroger

SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline) – Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced on Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit against a furniture company accused of more than 100 violations of the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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News, State AGs

Critics of EPA’s Jackson say she bows to both extremes

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Jackson

WASHINGTON (Legal Newslin) – Soon after President Barack Obama tapped Lisa Jackson to take the reins at the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the agency announced it would be re-reviewing the commonly used farming pesticide atrazine and its potential health effects.
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