News from July 2011
Ind. AG sues foreclosure consultant company
Zoeller SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (Legal Newsline) - Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a California-based foreclosure consultant company over alleged consumer protection law violations.
Bank settles over misplaced data
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a settlement on Friday with Belmont Savings Bank following a data breach that could have affected more than 13,000 Massachusetts residents.
Report: Two spots on Va. SC filled
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - The Virginia General Assembly filled two state Supreme Court vacancies on Friday.
Kansas senators block Obama-appointee
Six WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has blocked former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six's nomination to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Utah SC rules in eminent domain issue
Durrant SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - The Utah Supreme Court said this month that a portion of land cannot be condemned under a statute that permits eminent domain for construction projects around mineral deposits.
Tenn. SC rules for termite company
Koch NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last week that a termite control company is eligible to receive a portion of the proceeds from a county's settlement with a competing vendor.
Conn. AG settles with pastor impostor
Jepsen HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen announced a settlement on Friday with a man who posed as the pastor of a church and transferred the title and property rights of the church property to another church he founded.
Hormone therapy drugs didn't cause cancer, jury rules
Copenhaver CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) -- A federal jury on Thursday found that hormone therapy medicines manufactured by two Pfizer subsidiaries were not a cause in the development of a woman's breast cancer.
Settlement bans debt relief services
Suthers DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced a settlement on Thursday banning a Westminster, Colo.-based company from selling, marketing or advertising any debt relief services.
Ky. AG sues Daymar College
Conway FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the owners and operators fo Daymar College for allegedly violating the state's Consumer Protection Act.
Conn. AG settles with former CEO
Jepsen HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen announced a $250,000 settlement on Thursday with the former CEO of a financial products and services firm in Great Neck, N.Y.
Pa. SC: Woman can keep her workers' comp benefits
Todd HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week reversed the decision of a lower court, awarding workers' compensation benefits to a woman whose painful hand condition forced her to leave her job.
Fla. lawmaker, nonprofit want investigation into Bondi's firings
Bondi TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- A Florida lawmaker, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, says he wants more information on the two assistant attorneys general who were recently fired by her office.
Tenth Circuit: $358M case against Utah amounts to little
Shurtleff SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Only a recent Utah Supreme Court decision prevented the claims of two former financial advisers who say regulators ruined their professional lives from being dismissed entirely.
Sitting justice attacks W.Va. cap on non-economic damages
Workman CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia's limits on non-economic damages for victims of medical malpractice violate the state Constitution, Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson argues against a Supreme Court majority that reached the opposite conclusion.
Decision for new trial before Texas Supreme Court
Floyd AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Supreme Court must decide whether Jefferson County District Judge Donald Floyd fully explained why he overturned a verdict from jurors who rejected an injury claim after watching victim James Levine wash a red Corvette.
Mo. high court affirms utility merger
Stith JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) -- The Missouri Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, upheld the approval of a merger of two utility companies by the state's Public Service Commission.
Mo. SC rules defendants added too late to wrongful death case
Wolff JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last week that the state's statute of limitations bars a lawsuit for wrongful death against a group of physicians.
Brown picks failed Obama-appointee for Calif. SC
Brown SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - California Gov. Jerry Brown apparently has the same taste in judges that President Barack Obama has.
W.Va. attorney to be nominated for Fourth Circuit opening
Thacker CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston attorney Stephanie Thacker is President Obama's pick to fill an opening on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.