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Judicial candidate sues to keep name off ballot
The Republican nominee running for the Jefferson County criminal district court judgeship has filed a temporary restraining order against the county clerk and the Texas secretary of state to keep his name off the ballot. -
Capitol Comment: Addressing Border Violence Must Be a National Security Priority
The growing violence in Mexico has become one of the most pressing national security issues in America today. -
Dodd-Frank reform law invites new litigation opportunities against mortgage lenders
Taft WASHINGTON -- Homeowners gained leverage for litigation against mortgage lenders through the financial reform law Congress passed this summer. -
Capitol Comment: Health Insurance Mandates Defy Constitutional Authority
Late last year, when the Senate was debating the health care reform bill, my colleagues and I protested countless objectionable provisions that would undermine the quality and raise the costs of health care in America. -
Bill seeks cash gusher from oil spill
What is it with acronyms? It seems like every other bill coming out of Washington these days has a title with the first letters of every word spelling out a message word. -
Capitol Comment: Preserving Flexibility, Choice, and Cost Savings in Health Care
It has always been my view that Americans are better qualified to make decisions about their own lives than the federal government. -
Trial lawyer tax break attracts attention of two dozen senators
Thune WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - One-quarter of the U.S. Senate has expressed concern that the U.S. Department of the Treasury may be planning to issue an order giving trial lawyers tax breaks on contingency fee lawsuits. -
Changes to maritime laws motivated by politics, lawyer says
Freeman Since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April, some groups, including trial lawyers, see the incident as an opportunity to make changes to the federal statutes that cover injuries and deaths in the maritime industry. -
Senate Judiciary Committee approves Kagan
Kagan WASHINGTON(Legal Newsline) - Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. -
Capitol Comment: Bureaucratic Barriers Must Not Obstruct Oil Spill Cleanup
More than two months have passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, tragically killing 11 workers and causing a leak that is gushing up to 60,000 barrels of oil into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico each day. -
Business group never behind La. Senate's contingency bill
Chaisson BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - A Louisiana business group says it refused to support the Senate version of a bill that would have allowed the Louisiana attorney general to hire private attorneys to sue BP on a contingency fee. -
With substantial changes, La. contingency fee bill passes House
NEW ORLEANS -- After several hours late Friday evening in debate, the Louisiana House voted 71-23 to pass the Louisiana contingency fee bill, which authorizes the state to hire trial lawyers on a contingency fee basis. -
McConnell hearing pushed back
McConnell WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs attorney Jack McConnell will have to wait a few days before the Senate Judiciary Committee debates his nomination to a federal judgeship. -
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. -
A good judge is hard to find
When asked why Southern writers so often write about freaks, Flannery O'Connor responded, "because we are still able to recognize one." -
Cornyn questions McConnell about Texas schools lead paint litigation
Cornyn U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked John McConnell Jr. if it was appropriate for a lawyer to solicit a school board as a client in a lead-based paint remediation lawsuit even if the district is not sure its schools contain lead paint. -
Duke prof: Obama showing 'anti-capitalist bias'
Obama DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - President Barack Obama's fight to regulate automobile dealers like banks could lead to broken knees, a Duke University professor joked Wednesday. -
Lee Parsley named president of Texas Civil Justice League
AUSTIN - The Texas Civil Justice League has named Lee Parsley president and general counsel effective June 1. -
Obama: Regulate auto dealers like banks
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - President Barack Obama says auto dealerships should be subject to the same oversight he is proposing for banks and other lenders in his financial reform package. -
Leading Republican senator questions Kagan nomination
Cornyn (R-Texas) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)�U.S. Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday questioned the experience of President Barack Obama's pick this week to the U.S. Supreme Court.