Dembe PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania is known as the Quaker State and Philadelphia as the Quaker City because both were founded by William Penn, who was a member of the Society of Friends - also called Quakers.
Coakley BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - The Wall Street Journal slammed Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in an editorial Tuesday, claiming her lawsuit against five national banks is politically motivated.
Mukasey WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A former U.S. attorney general says the entire U.S. Supreme Court, including Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas, should hear the multistate challenge to President Barack Obama's federal health care law.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Nearly half of registered voters surveyed think it's time for someone other than Darrell McGraw to be West Virginia's attorney general.
Sparks LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - After years of litigation, The Dole Food Co. Inc. and the Provost Umphrey Law Firm have reached an agreement to settle litigation the firm filed on behalf of more than 5,000 foreign farm workers claiming injuries from pesticides.
Spitzer NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Internet magazine Slate are being accused of defamation, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last week.
Catherine Cortez Masto CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) -- Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has ordered UnitedHealth Group Inc. to pay a $1 million fine for violating an antitrust agreement with the state.
Judge Richard Posner calls cy pres awards "purely punitive." The use of unclaimed funds from class action settlements to fund non-profit organizations is a common legal practice.
Shurtleff SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) -- Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, in a letter to a Bank of America Corp. executive last week, said a unit of the bank was illegally processing foreclosures in Utah.
McConnell WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing for a vote on one of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, Rhode Island plaintiffs attorney Jack McConnell.
McConnell CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The court battle over the alleged theft of confidential documents by plaintiffs firm Motley Rice is stagnant as Sherwin-Williams attempts to make the firm respond to its discovery requests.
McConnell WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Wall Street Journal does not believe plaintiffs attorney Jack McConnell is fit to be a federal judge and says Democrats should not be surprised if his nomination leads to a Republican filibuster.
McCollum WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum recently wrote in an op-ed that more transparency is needed when state attorneys general hire private attorneys to represent the state.
Kaplan NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has delayed his decision on whether to grant an injunction to stop the collection of more than $8 billion from Chevron Corp.
Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says his office may be forced to take legal action against Google after the company failed to meet a deadline.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - An employee of the New York Attorney General's Office is leaving to work as an associate general counsel at Goldman Sachs, according to a Wall Street Journal blog.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Wal-Mart's challenge to a class-action lawsuit alleging discrimination against female employees.
Troy King WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A tort reform group says, in a new report, that some plaintiffs attorneys have used their relationships with state attorneys general as "a litigious cash cow."
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by several drug makers, including Pfizer Inc., to have three lawsuits alleging a link between hormone-therapy medications and breast cancer moved to federal court.