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***FOR PRINT***Dallas doctor arrested for $375M home healthcare fraud
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- A Dallas physician, his office manager and the owners of five home health agencies have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the government for healthcare services. -
Dallas doctor arrested for $375M home healthcare fraud
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- A Dallas physician, his office manager and the owners of five home health agencies have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the government for healthcare services. -
Texas congressman asks Holder about DOJ Countrywide settlement
Smith WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder expressing concern over the Department of Justice's settlement with Countrywide Financial. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) sent the letter Jan. 25 saying the terms of the settlement between the DOJ and Countrywide will permit large sums of money to those with close political ties to President Obama. -
Judge Carl Barbier gets a slapdown
We've often wondered if law schools offer special courses in demeanor to ensure that future attorneys develop that air of superiority so prevalent in their profession. -
DOJ objects to 6% attorney reserve in BP litigation
Barbier NEW ORLEANS � The Department of Justice burst an $840 million bubble for the Plaintiff Steering Committee in Deepwater Horizon litigation, wrecking their plan to reserve 6 percent of settlements at BP's Gulf Coast Claims Facility. -
Androvett Legal Media & Marketing's Top 10 North Texas Legal Stories of 2011
The flagging U.S. economy caught up with several high-profile North Texas companies during the past year, creating a logjam of bankruptcy cases in Androvett Legal Media & Marketing's list of the Top 10 North Texas Legal Stories of 2011. Bankruptcies for American Airlines, Blockbuster and the Dallas Stars earned spots on the annual list of the area's top legal news. Others include the ongoing corruption -
Texas oil company fined $12M for violations in Louisiana
WASHINGTON � Houston, Texas-based Pelican Refining Co. has been fined $12 million for felony violations of the Clean Air Act at its Louisiana refinery. -
***FOR PRINT *** U.S. SC issues stay on interim Texas redistricting maps
Abbott WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court has granted Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's request to stay an interim redistricting plan created by three federal judges. -
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. -
BP and Transocean want evidence of U.S. government's role introduced in oil spill litigation
NEW ORLEANS - Deepwater Horizon operator BP and rig owner Transocean, trading blame for last year's oil spill, aim to drag Uncle Sam into the dispute. -
Senate confirms Obama nominee Bales as US Attorney for east Texas
Bales On Jan. 26, 2003, John Malcolm Bales had just been named chief of the criminal division for the federal Eastern District of Texas Lufkin office. -
**FOR PRINT***The science of asbestos: A variety of definitions
Carbone WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Asbestos litigation has become a multibillion-dollar industry -- bankrupting large corporations, enriching lawyers and courts and providing much needed relief to victims of the deadly diseases that exposure to some types asbestos in specific amounts will cause. -
Government delays document production in BP litigation; Napolitano lacks email is cited as one reason
Napolitano NEW ORLEANS � Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano lacks an electronic mail account, the Obama Administration offers as one of many excuses for delays in producing documents about the Deepwater Horizon explosion. -
Transocean wants claims of five who took Fifth dismissed
Miller NEW ORLEANS - Deepwater Horizon oil rig owner Transocean claims workers hid behind the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their injuries. -
Denton County attorney sentenced for child porn
TEXARKANA � A 65-year-old Double Oak lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. -
Blowout prevention maker, wellhead owner want jury trials in Deepwater Horizon litigation
Barbier NEW ORLEANS � Two lonely voices pleaded for U. S. District Judge Carl Barbier to hold jury trials in litigation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion. -
****FOR PRINT**** States file brief in ObamaCare challenge
Abbott ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - Twenty-six states have filed a brief that urges a federal appeals court to strike down President Barack Obama's federal health care law as unconstitutional. -
Church members seek $4.5M from Cracker Barrel over alleged racial discrimination
Welton SHERMAN - A Dallas pastor and members of her church are seeking $4.5 million in a lawsuit against Cracker Barrel for racial discrimination and assault after a staff member gave them a threatening note.