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Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The intentions of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood were discussed Monday at a hearing concerning his request for information from energy provider Entergy.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has decided not to block Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's investigation into a power company that says he has no reason to do probe it.
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Cuomo ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A pair of administrative law judges in New York told power provider Entergy that information it gave to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo regarding its nuclear plans can be released to the public.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The company that has accused Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood of needlessly probing it for information is asking a federal judge for protection against Hood's demands.
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Jim Hood (D) JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is investigating what some are calling dirty political tactics in the state Supreme Court races.
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Abbott AUSTIN, Tex. (Legal Newsline) - Much like several of his colleagues, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has launched an investigation into price-gouging after his office received hundreds of complaints from consumers in the wake of Hurricane Ike.
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Barbour JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Much like his decision not to file state charges against the attorneys who pleaded guilty to a pair of judicial bribery schemes, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is claiming a conflict of interest prevents him from defending Gov. Haley Barbour in a Medicaid lawsuit.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says his lawsuit against State Farm Insurance made the company pay $74 million it initially refused to give to policyholders affected by 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
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Richard "Dickie" Scruggs ASHLAND, Ky. (Legal Newsline)-Convicted trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs reported Monday to a federal prison in Kentucky.
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Scruggs OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - If famed plaintiffs' lawyer and admitted felon Richard "Dickie" Scruggs of Mississippi committed all the crimes he didn't deny in a July 22 deposition, he will never get out of prison.
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Mike Perrin, Ken Bailey's law partner PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Attorney Kenneth Bailey has inspired a lot of headlines by making money, and a few more by giving it out.
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Dickie Scruggs JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)--Zach Scruggs - the son of a once-high-profile-but-now-disgraced lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs - deserves probation for his role in a judicial bribery conspiracy led by his father, attorneys say.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A new law that will ban the sale of tobacco products over the Internet or phone is "win-win-win," Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said Monday.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Upset with a federal judge's criticism of his relationship with famed plaintiffs attorney and admitted felon Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Friday he is planning to fight back.
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Hood NEW YORK CITY - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez chased criminal lawyers Joey Langston and Tim Balducci of Mississippi out of his court April 2, telling them they must return home to battle taxpayers over $14 million in class action proceeds.
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Scruggs GULFPORT, Miss. - With every twist in the saga of high-profile trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, another turn is made in State Farm Insurance Cos.' attempt to disqualify his former partners from representing Hurricane Katrina victims.
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Dickie Scruggs OXFORD, Miss. - Zach Scruggs became the last of five to plead guilty to a judicial bribery scheme involving Hurricane Katrina attorneys fees Friday, one week after his father did the same.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Monday he hopes that the saga of admitted felon and prominent trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs won't become another reason for Republicans and Democrats to fight.
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OXFORD, Miss. - The man who gave now-troubled trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs state power to fight tobacco companies will help represent Scruggs' son Zach in his battle against judicial bribery charges.
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Hood JACKSON, Miss. - In catching high-profile plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs in a judicial bribery scheme, the federal government's methods of investigation worked perfectly, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Friday.