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Texas AG pushes to avoid interim redistricting maps
Abbott WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the federal Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division is delaying preclearance of his state's redistricting maps.
***FOR PRINT***U.S. SC accepts ObamaCare appeal
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear the appeals in a 26-state lawsuit that challenges President Barack Obama's federal health care reform law.
U.S. SC accepts ObamaCare appeal
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear the appeals in a 26-state lawsuit that challenges President Barack Obama's federal health care reform law.
Texas AG says Obama, EPA need to cool it with regulations
Abbott AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is wondering why the federal government isn't using his state's plan as a model for creating jobs.
Report: Obama nominee, some AGs too close to plaintiffs bar
Cordray NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) � The relationship between plaintiffs attorneys and the man President Barack Obama wants to head a key consumer protection agency is targeted in a new report by the Manhattan Institute.
U.S. SC won't hear appeal of asbestos firm in fraud case
Peirce WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court will let stand a ruling that reopened a fraud case against a Pittsburgh asbestos law firm.
KBR won't get attorneys fees from woman who claimed rape
Jones HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who alleged her employer was at fault for a rape that a jury said never happened, must pay court costs to the company she sued but not its attorneys fees.
Patent company has big case, no office
The directory in Ogma's building LONGVIEW (Legal Newsline) � By some accounts, freshly formed Ogma LLC is a legitimate company in the business of making legitimate patent infringement claims. What the company appears to lack, however, is a legitimate office.
***FOR PRINT*** Patent company has big case, no office
The directory in Ogma's building.
LONGVIEW (Legal Newsline) � By some accounts, freshly formed Ogma LLC is a legitimate company in the business of making legitimate patent infringement claims. What the company appears to lack, however, is a legitimate office.
KBR wants attorneys fees from woman who claimed rape
Jones HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - A former subsidiary of Halliburton wants Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who alleged the company caused her gang-rape, to pay the attorneys fees it incurred defending itself against the lawsuit.
***FOR PRINT***KBR wants attorneys fees from woman who claimed rape
Jones HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - A former subsidiary of Halliburton wants Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who alleged the company caused her gang-rape, to pay the attorneys fees it incurred defending itself against the lawsuit.
***FOR PRINT ***Eleventh Circuit rules against part of ObamaCare
Abbott ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) � A federal appeals court has sided with 26 states in their challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform.
Eleventh Circuit rules against part of ObamaCare
Abbott ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - A federal appeals court has sided with 26 states in their challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform.
Obama, Cordray were co-defendants in prisoner's lawsuit
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Now co-workers, President Barack Obama and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray were once co-defendants.
Woman loses rape case against former employer
Jones HOUSTON � A federal jury in Houston has ruled Jamie Leigh Jones, whose case became a call-to-action for reform in arbitration clauses in contracts, was not raped.
Federal agency ticks off state attorneys general
Abbott WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The nation's state attorneys general, including Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, are claiming the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has been attempting to preempt state consumer protection laws for a decade.
****FOR PRINT **** ATRA lawyer says movie slashed key part of argument
Schwartz WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) � A tort reform advocate who was interviewed for a documentary that debuted Monday on HBO says his comments were taken out of context, though the filmmaker is defending her editing.
ATRA lawyer says movie slashed key part of argument
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A tort reform advocate who was interviewed for a documentary that debuts Monday on HBO says his comments were taken out of context, though the filmmaker is defending her editing.
Judge had 'blatant' conflict on $322M asbestos case, company says
Bowen RALEIGH, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Union Carbide says the judge on a record-breaking asbestos lawsuit excused jurors with family ties to asbestos suits but did not reveal his own.