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Recent News About Wall Street Journal

• Karl Rove to speak at Texas Energy Museum fund raiser

  By Staff reports | Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010 @ 2:25am

  Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, will speak at Blowout 2011, the Texas Energy Museum's annual fund raising dinner. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, 2011, at the Beaumont Civic Center.

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• WSJ touts Perry's 'loser pays' plan

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 @ 8:00am

  Perry In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal praised Gov. Rick Perry for his plans to expand Texas' "impressive tort reform record."

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• PRINT ONLY-Motives questioned in Texas AG's Google inquiry

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Tuesday, Sep 14, 2010 @ 6:38pm

  Abbott SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A Seattle-based blogger and Google's general counsel are questioning whether Microsoft is pulling the strings in the Texas attorney general's office.

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• Financial reform passes

  By John O'Brien | Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 @ 4:58am

  Miller WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general are excited that President Barack Obama signed federal financial reform legislation into law Wednesday.

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• Texas Times: Honoring Generations of Texas Heroes

  By U.S. Sen John Cornyn | Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 @ 10:55am

  On Memorial Day, we honor the heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our land of liberty.

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• Parsley named new president of Texas reform group

  By The SE Texas Record | Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 12:00pm

  (Austin, TX) TLR is delighted that our friend and colleague

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• Duke prof says AG Cuomo helped cause financial crisis

  By John O'Brien | Thursday, Mar 4, 2010 @ 5:27am

  Cuomo DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The way Duke University professor and former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger sees it, there can be only two reasons New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Bank of America -- and neither of them are good.

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• Avoiding the appearance of impropriety

  By The SE Texas Record | Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 @ 8:13am

  A person in a position of public trust is expected to avoid not only impropriety, but even the appearance of it.

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• Reform group praises Abbott for steering clear of pension fund litigation problems

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Friday, Feb 5, 2010 @ 1:54am

  Abbott (R) Attorneys general of several states have been getting negative press lately for hiring campaign donors as outside counsel in public pension fund shareholder litigation. Texas, however, has remained above the fray.

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• Senate rejects Obama's NLRB nominee

  By Chris Rizo | Monday, Dec 28, 2009 @ 6:16am

  WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. Senate has rejected one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.

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• Capitol Comment: The Right Reforms to Our Health Care System Will Do No Harm

  By U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison | Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 @ 6:35am

  During medical school, aspiring physicians are often taught the principle of primum non nocere, more commonly known as "first, do no harm."

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• Texans know tort reform works

  By The SE Texas Record | Saturday, Oct 17, 2009 @ 5:16pm

  All educated Americans are familiar with the concept of checks and balances.

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• Nicaraguan doctor tells WSJ that Provost Umphrey faked lab results in Dole cases

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:42am

  Lawsuits against Dole on behalf of Nicaraguan banana pickers allegedly exposed to pesticides have been in the news this summer after a California judge ruled that some of the plaintiffs' attorneys committed fraud.

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• National article prompts revisit to Jefferson County silicosis case

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, May 14, 2009 @ 8:59am

  Jefferson County has been in the national news recently,not for hurricane coverage but in an article about tort reform that named a local court as the first place a major company lost a silica trial.

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• Legally Speaking: Lawyers Behaving Badly Again

  By John G. Browning | Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009 @ 5:27pm

  As regular "Legally Speaking" readers know, the subject of ethical lapses by lawyers and judges is a recurring one.

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• Critics see former Beaumont attorney's contract with Pennsylvania governor as 'pay to play'

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Monday, Apr 13, 2009 @ 10:27am

  A former Beaumont attorney may lose out on millions in legal fees if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court removes him from a suit against a pharmaceutical company on allegations his contract for legal fees has the appearance of a "pay to play" scheme.

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• Class action alleges Netflix, Wal-Mart conspiracy created monopoly in DVD rental market

  By Michelle Massey, East Texas Bureau | Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 @ 4:36am

  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. � A recently filed class action alleges a conspiracy between Netflix and Wal-Mart allowed Netflix to create a monopoly in the DVD rental market.

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• Wage legislation called a potential 'bonanza' for trial lawyers

  By Chris Rizo | Monday, Jan 12, 2009 @ 3:10am

  WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Legislation called a potential "trial lawyer bonanza" by the Wall Street Journal is winding its way through Congress.

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• Deep pockets: Asbestos lawyers spend millions on favored candidates

  By The SE Texas Record | Monday, Oct 27, 2008 @ 3:40am

  Plaintiffs lawyers like Walter Umphrey, Wayne Reaud, John O'Quinn and Fred Baron rose from their humble, blue collar beginnings in Texas to build some of the most successful firms in the country.

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• Legally Speaking: A Class (Action) Act

  By John G. Browning | Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 @ 6:44am

  It's all over but the shouting � and, of course, the prison visits.

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