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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Alabama Attorney General

Recent News About Alabama Attorney General

  • Gulf State AGs meet to talk strategy over BP oil spill

    By Chris Rizo |
    Greg Abbott AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)-A group of five state attorneys general have formed the bipartisan Gulf States Coalition to coordinate their legal efforts to the increasing oil spill spreading off their coastlines.

  • Fourth Circuit sets arguments for Cooper's pollution suit

    By John O'Brien |
    Cooper RICHMOND (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has scheduled oral arguments in North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's public nuisance case against a power provider for May.

  • Conway: Healthcare provision 'distasteful'

    By John O'Brien |
    Conway FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, a U.S. Senate hopeful, has not ruled out joining Republican state attorneys general probing the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" provision of proposed healthcare reform.

  • Ala. AG still objects to Nebraska healthcare deal

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - One of the 13 state attorneys general considering a challenge to the healthcare bill is calling what he says is an offer made by U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson "unacceptable."

  • King responds to district attorneys with op-ed piece

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King wrote in an editorial that the five district attorneys who filed prescription drug pricing lawsuits did so because they were promised a "huge payoff" by the private attorneys they hired.

  • TVA must install pollution controls during public nuisance appeal

    By John O'Brien |
    Cooper ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The decision to have Tennessee Valley Authority spend hundreds of millions of dollars in pollution controls at four of its power plants won't be stayed during the company's appeal.

  • Alabama wins water war

    By Keith Loria |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - After a 19-year legal battle, the State of Alabama has prevailed in a lawsuit stopping Georgia from what it says was excessive and unauthorized use of water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier.

  • King hoping for permanent decision against debt settlement provider

    By Ashley Stinnett |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King and the Alabama Securities Commission are awaiting a judge's ruling in a suit that alleges a debt settlement scheme involving over 15,000 customers.

  • King: Rethink GM bankruptcy plan

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King is appealing a part of General Motors' bankruptcy plan that he says will harm former GM employees on workers' compensation.

  • King's attorneys go to court in pharmaceutical suit

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The trial in one of Alabama Attorney General Troy King's lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry began Tuesday amidst the controversy over where any money recovered by a verdict will go.

  • Another $89M for King and feds to fight over

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Six more defendants have settled Medicaid fraud charges with Alabama Attorney General Troy King, currently in a fight with the Federal Government over to whom part of the money is owed.

  • Prosecutors subpoena Ala. AG's records

    By Chris Rizo |
    Troy King (R) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Legal Newsline)-Federal investigators have subpoenaed Alabama Attorney General Troy King's travel records and information about gifts he might have received while in office, officials said.

  • Ala. AG's race gets Strange

    By John O'Brien |
    Strange BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Birmingham attorney Luther Strange has decided to challenge Alabama Attorney General Troy King in 2010.

  • United Mine Workers' president blasts Alabama AG

    By Chris Rizo |
    Cecil Roberts, Jr. FAIRFAX, Va. (Legal Newsline)-An call by the Alabama attorney general to get his counterparts around the nation to oppose the appeal Hugh Caperton and Harman Mining have before the U.S. Supreme Court against Massey Energy has drawn the ire of the president of the United Mine Workers.

  • King laments voter fraud in Alabama

    By Chris Rizo |
    Troy King (R) MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline)-Alabama Attorney General Troy King said Sunday that absentee ballots are being routinely sold in the Yellowhammer State.

  • Birmingham Water Works will not be sold to City

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama Attorney General Troy King is happy that there will be no more litigation over the selling of a water system in the Birmingham area.

  • AG King: Felons can't use fame for profit

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Thursday was celebrating the success of a bill that prevents felons from using their notoriety for profit.