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Hood happy with Entergy ruling
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - An administrative law judge for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has found that electricity provider Entergy Corporation did not sell its lowest cost power to benefit its affiliated companies. -
La. jury reaches $258M verdict in Risperdal case
Caldwell BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - A Louisiana jury has ordered Janssen Pharmaceutica to pay $258 million in a lawsuit brought by former state Attorney General Charles Foti and continued by his successor, Buddy Caldwell. -
Hood, State Farm settlement includes venue stipulation
Hood HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood will now have to get the approval of a federal court if he ever decides to bring Hurricane Katrina-related claims against State Farm Insurance Cos. again. -
Hood wanted advice from Scruggs on WSJ op-ed
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Recently released documents show that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood asked for the advice of plaintiffs attorneys who later became felons when crafting a rebuttal to a 2007 Wall Street Journal editorial. -
Mississippi begins receiving diaper money
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has turned over to Medicaid the first $100,000 of a June 9 settlement with a home care company that was charged with incorrectly billing Medicaid. -
Time runs out on twice-changed La. contingency bill
Caldwell BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - A bill that would have allowed Louisiana Attorney Buddy Caldwell to hire private attorneys on a contingency fee to sue BP died Monday before the House could vote on changes made by the Senate. -
La. contingency bill now only for oil spill lawsuit
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - A Louisiana House committee has amended a bill that allows the attorney general to hire private attorneys on a contingency fee to only apply to litigation concerning the BP oil spill. -
La. Senate narrowly passes contingency fee bill
Caldwell BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - The Louisiana Senate voted Tuesday to grant the state's attorney general the power to hire private attorneys on a contingency fee basis. -
La. contingency fee bill introduced after oil spill
Caldwell BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - The BP oil spill might play a role in changing the way the Louisiana attorney general does business. -
In wake of BP spill, AG Hood pleads for rules change
Hood WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood urged members of the House Judiciary Committee to keep lawsuits, including a potential one over the BP oil spill, out of federal court Thursday. -
Rice piling up money from personal injury heavyweights
Rice NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Contributions from four major personal injury law firms are a significant portion of New York Attorney General-hopeful Kathleen Rice's campaign fund. -
State Farm indifferent about unsealing of Hood settlement
Hood HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - State Farm Insurance isn't making any arguments to keep the settlement in its case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood sealed. -
Miss. Bar worried about unethical lawyers
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Bar is cautioning those affected by the recent British Petroleum explosion and oil spill about attorneys acting inappropriately. -
Gulf Coast AGs seek coordinated state-federal response to BP spill
Barack Obama (D) AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)-A bipartisan group of attorneys general from the five Gulf Coast states asked President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to help ensure a unified state-federal response to the oil spill spreading off their coastlines. -
Hood wants settlement to stay sealed
Hood HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is again opposing the unsealing of the settlement in State Farm Insurance's lawsuit against him. -
Gulf State AGs meet to talk strategy over BP oil spill
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. -
Sealed info requested in State Farm v. Hood
Hood HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Four media outlets have asked a federal judge to unseal a settlement in State Farm Insurance's lawsuit against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. -
Mississippi SC rules state can sue Bayer
James Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-The Mississippi Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit against Bayer AG, ruling the state can refile a claim the pharmaceutical giant defrauded its Medicaid program. -
Hood: No need to join health care challenge yet
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood recently told Gov. Haley Barbour that he has no current plans to join the challenge to federal health care reform, but Barbour's position will be well-represented by those AGs who are. -
Entergy happy with outcome of audit
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Entergy Corp., facing a lawsuit from Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, said Thursday it has been cleared of any improper charges to customers by an independent agency.