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Poll: Goddard trails Arpaio in Ariz. gubernatorial race

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Legal Newsline)-Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard may not coast into the governor's office as some political observers have said, a poll indicates Monday. The latest Rasmussen Reports poll on the Arizona gubernatorial race ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Joe Arpaio,  Terry Goddard,  Jan Brewer,  Twitter Inc

Republicans to push for tort reform

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate will have "extensive" debate on health care reform in the coming weeks, with Republicans pushing for tort reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday. The upper chamber narrowly voted Saturday evening to ...

From CHRIS RIZO, The Madison Record,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Mitch McConnell,  Harry Reid

Texas judge tosses state's Vioxx lawsuit

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)-A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general against drugmaker Merck & Co. over its now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx. In a 2005 lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott had sought a refund ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Merck & Company, Inc.,  Greg Abbott,  Food and Drug Administration

Nava: Schwarzenegger should wait to fill Lt. Gov. post

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should not immediately appoint someone to fill the recent vacancy left when Lt. Gov. John Garamendi was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, a candidate for state ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  John Garamendi,  U.S. House of Representatives

Texas SC agrees to rehear long-running Exxon sabotage case

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)- The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a case in the long-running case over whether Exxon Mobil Corp. sabotaged abandoned wells. In March, the high court tossed out an $18.6 million verdict against Exxon, the ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Utah justices uphold strip club tax

SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline)-The Utah Supreme Court has upheld the state tax on strip clubs but said the levy shouldn't be charged to companies providing escort services. Since Utah's Sexually Explicit Business and Escort Service Tax is ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  Department of Corrections

Democrat enters Oklahoma AG race

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - In penalizing the State of West Virginia $2.7 million, a federal appeals board also recently wrote that state Attorney General Darrell McGraw was not representing individual citizens when he sued OxyContin-maker ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Brown, securities regulators in spat over Wells Fargo settlement

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Attorney General Jerry Brown and a group of securities regulators from other states are bickering over who forced Wells Fargo & Co. to buy back $1.4 billion in troubled securities. On Wednesday, Brown and ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wells Fargo,  Jerry Brown,  Los Angeles Times,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  Financial Accounting Standards Board

Senate Republicans to push tort reform

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)- The U.S. Senate will have "extensive" debate on health care reform in the coming weeks, with Republicans pushing for tort reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday. The upper chamber narrowly voted Saturday ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Mitch McConnell,  Harry Reid

Senate health care bill clears major hurdle; Republicans decry plan

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. Senate narrowly moved Saturday night to advance a mammoth health care overhaul bill offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The procedural vote, passed on party lines, was needed to begin formal debate ...

From CHRIS RIZO, Legal NewsLine,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid

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