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Hood won't help Bryant in MCI fee recovery
NEW YORK CITY - Most politicians would leap at a chance to win back millions of dollars from attorneys under federal investigation, but Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood must pass up the chance because he hired them. -
Drug deaths lure two state AGs to file pharmacy suit
Greg Abbott AUSTIN -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers landed a one-two punch on a Dallas-based drug maker and distributor in a drug-potency lawsuit. -
Congressman helps launch criminal probe into Halliburton rape case
Two years ago, U.S. Rep. Ted Poe received a call from one of his constituents, a frantic father who said his daughter had been gang raped while working in Baghdad for an American defense contractor. -
Luck runs out for tort king, Scruggs indicted for bribery
OXFORD, Mississippi � Ten years after the Supreme Court of Mississippi turned the Attorney General's office into a mint cranking out easy money for lucky lawyers, the luckiest one of all has dragged the whole state down in disgrace. -
Tips for shopping safely from home
Shopping from home allows the convenience of sitting in jammies with a warm cup of cocoa at 2 a.m. instead of battling crowds, checkout lines and the race to find a parking space. -
Supreme Court agrees driver, not traffic light caused PA wreck
Texas Supreme Court AUSTIN � Yolanda Guidry, whose daughter and unborn grandchild died in a Port Arthur car crash, must give up trying to prove that the traffic lights beamed as green for her daughter as for the driver who hit her. -
Ark. AG's new health-care office will handle lawsuits
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has created a separate health-based agency within his office that will also deal with all medical-based litigation. -
Why is your local DA accountable when your state AG isn't?
When West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw sued drug maker PurduePharma over misrepresentation of its pain killer OxyContin, he petitioned the court saying, "This action involves the impact of State action against one of the most vulnerable and dependant sections of West Virginia society, the elderly and disabled." -
Texas AG's housing-crisis proposals no help: author
AUSTIN -- Recent proposals by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to help alleviate a "looming crisis" in the state's housing market are unlikely to have much impact, according to a prominent property columnist. -
Jury Duty scam just another ID theft trick
News release from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott -
Medical equipment supplier indicted for Medicare fraud
U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe U.S. Attorney John L. Ratcliffe announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a medical equipment supplier with federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. The indictment was returned Oct. 17. -
Pre-teen fury sparks AG action, software injunction
Miley Cyrus A software company is the latest corporate victim of a parental-outrage vendetta over sold-out concerts by teen performer Miley Cyrus, also called Hannah Montana. -
Texas Times: A Texan who helped change the world
Later this month, President Bush will present a Congressional Gold Medal, the legislative branch's highest civilian award, to Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey of Houston. I was proud to join Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the Texas delegation in sponsoring this latest honor for our state's most famous medical doctor. -
Rowan to pay $8 M for polluting Gulf
Rowan Companies Inc., a major oil and gas drilling company, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Beaumont to three felonies in connection with the routine discharge of pollutants and garbage into the Gulf of Mexico from one of the firm's oil rigs, the Justice Department announced Oct. 10. -
Refugio County commissioner pleads guilty to election fraud scheme
REFUGIO � A sitting Refugio County Precinct 4 commissioner pleaded guilty to felony election fraud charges in Refugio County and will also plead to an associated misdemeanor charge next week. -
Local federal prosecutors honored in Washington
BEAUMONT, TX � Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph R. Batte of Beaumont and John Malcolm Bales of Lufkin were honored Oct. 2 at the Justice Department's 55th Annual Awards Ceremony at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., along with 191 Justice Department employees and 26 other individuals. -
Cornyn addresses debate over healthcare
Texas Times: A Weekly Column from U.S. Sen. John Cornyn -
Arkansas AG's lawsuit could deliver $90m jackpot for TX lawyers
Mike Perrin LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has handed over work on what could be a $600 million lawsuit against three "Big Pharma" companies to a Texas law firm. -
La. AG candidate offered to lobby federal officials for campaign cash
Royal Alexander by Tom Herrmann E-mail messages from July show that a Republican candidate for Louisiana attorney general offered to lobby federal officials to oppose proposed cuts in Medicaid and Medicare payments in exchange for campaign contributions, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. -
Car-makers get one down, two to go in triple-suit Cal. GHG attack
Theodore Boutrous SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A departing federal judge has booted California Attorney General Jerry Brown's public-nuisance lawsuit against the Big Six automakers over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.