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Castille PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided not to rule on whether using private attorneys to represent the State violates a defendant's constitutional rights.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - The California Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in a group of paint companies' challenge of the contingency fee contracts entered into by the lawyers and governments suing it.
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Jack Panella HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline)-The race for the lone vacant seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seat is heating up with Democrat Jack Panella only slightly ahead of Republican Joan Orie Melvin, a poll indicates.
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McMaster COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - As the State of South Carolina's case against Eli Lilly & Co. nears trial, state Attorney General Henry McMaster's relationship with the private attorneys he hires to pursue lawsuits is being questioned.
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Rendell HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - A contingency fee contract awarded to a Houston firm by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is the ultimate example of "pay-to-play," the Washington Legal Foundation recently argued.
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Rendell HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - A trade association says government agencies that were lured by the "siren song" of plaintiffs attorneys seeking state contracts have jeopardized balanced government decision-making in parens patriae litigation.
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Rendell HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a pharmaceuticals company that says a major plaintiffs firm hired by Gov. Ed Rendell should not be allowed to sue it.
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King SANTA FE, N.M. (Legal Newsline) - New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is the latest state official to catch flak from the Wall Street Journal over his relationship with Houston-based plaintiffs firm Bailey Perrin Bailey.
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Reichley HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Three of Pennsylvania's Republican lawmakers are using the recent attention Gov. Ed Rendell has received over a controversial legal contract to again push for more transparency in their government.
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Corbett HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Houston-based plaintiffs firm Bailey Perrin Bailey had its chance to impress Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett but could not and never tried again.
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Rendell PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Janssen Pharmaceutica is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to disqualify the firm hired by Gov. Ed Rendell to sue it.
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Bob Barr (L) HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline)-The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has said Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr can be on the Keystone State's Nov. 4 ballot, alongside Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
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Cappy HARRISBURG, Pa. - Too many cases, not enough justices.
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Debra Todd HARRISBURG -- The future majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court could still go either way after only Democrat Seamus P. McCaffery was confirmed to one of two new seats at yesterday's general election.
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Seamus P. McCaffery (L) HARRISBURG -- One of the two Democratic candidates for today's Pennsylvania Supreme Court elections accused a Republican rival of being disingenuous over TV ads that have boosted her candidacy.
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Baldwin PITTSBURGH - Just when Victor Sackett thought his fight with Nationwide Insurance was over, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to give the company one more shot to prove its case.