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Texas AG announces temporary injunction against alleged timeshare scammers
DALLAS (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a temporary injunction and an ongoing asset freeze Friday against a local firm that allegedly defrauded timeshare customers. -
U.S. SC to answer question of federal jurisdiction in lawsuit filed by Miss. AG
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether federal courts have jurisdiction over lawsuits filed in state courts by state attorneys general on behalf of consumers. -
Galveston Co. judge arrested, charged with alleged abuse of office
GALVESTON - A Galveston County judge who has been in the midst of controversy for quite some time was recently arrested and indicted by a local Grand Jury. -
Texas AG files lawsuit against BP for oil spill damages
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a lawsuit on Friday against BP America and other defendants for their contributions to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil spill. -
Texas AG obtains judgment against legal services provider
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Friday announced a judgment against an Austin-based legal services provider that allegedly provided unauthorized legal advice, document preparation and other immigration-related services. -
Hood files suit against BP over 2010 spill
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Houston's Parker Drilling settles Nigerian influence lawsuit
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Legally Speaking: Who's teaching your children? You might be shocked
The recently-released movie “The Company You Keep,” directed by and starring Robert Redford, examines what happens when an investigative journalist reveals the hidden Weather Underground past of a mild-mannered Albany attorney implicated in a botched bank robbery in the 1970s during which a security guard was killed. -
Texas AG announces court order against Florida-based tax preparer
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced an asset freeze and a temporary restraining order on Monday against a Florida-based tax preparation service that allegedly violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. -
Abbott supports legislation to modernize Texas open meetings law
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday came out in support of legislation that would modernize the state’s Open Meetings Act. -
Legally Speaking: They blazed a trail-The first African American lawyers
In February 2013—African-American Heritage Month—it’s easy to grow complacent about the strides made by blacks in the legal profession. After all, the president of the United States is African-American and a former president of the Harvard Law Review. The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, is African-American, as is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. -
The secret ballot should be sacred – at the polling place and the workplace
Imagine going to the polls on election day and being told that you could no longer cast a secret ballot as you always had in the past. Instead you would have to reveal your choices for mayor, state and federal legislators, governor, president or other ballot issues to election officials and other voters. -
BP trial day one: Ala. AG contends oil company was ‘blinded by their bottom line’
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says it is oil giant BP’s greed that has “devastated” the Gulf Coast states. -
Texas AG supports law to strengthen right-to-work
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott joined state Sen. Kel Seliger and state Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson on Wednesday in expressing support for legislation to strengthen the state’s right-to-work laws. -
Eight states join challenge of Dodd-Frank
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Eight state attorneys general, including Texas AG Greg Abbott, have joined a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. -
Texas AG announces Medicaid settlements of $10.9 million with drug manufacturers
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced two settlement agreements Wednesday with two drug manufacturers that allegedly misreported the prices of various drugs to the Medicaid program. -
La. AG files second suit against GlaxoSmithKline
BATON ROUGE (Legal Newsline) — Louisiana Attorney General James “Buddy” Caldwell last week filed a second suit against British health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC. -
Dietz: Texas school funding system unconstitutional
The system used by the state of Texas to fund its public schools is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Austin declared Monday. -
Discovery continues in religious discrimination suit against Lamar
Discovery continues in litigation brought by an instructor who alleges Lamar University discriminated against her after she failed to attend a stage performance with a homosexual theme.
