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W.Va. Chamber: Coal regulations will increase health care costs

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce says the state's two long-standing senators should refuse to vote on health care reform until it is assured regulations on the coal industry will be eased. Chamber President ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Legal NewsLine,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Robert Byrd,  Jay Rockefeller

Scruggs book coming Dec. 2

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Throughout the downfall of famed plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, visitors to Mississippi political Web site Y'All Politics noted that the saga would make a good book. Site operator Alan Lange must have ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Legal NewsLine,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mike Moore,  Jim Hood

Swap agreements not working in Pa., auditor general says

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner wants local governments and school districts to stop entering into swap agreements with investment firms. Wednesday, Wagner called on the state's General Assembly to outlaw ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Legal NewsLine,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jack Wagner,  Andrew Cuomo,  Goldman Sachs,  Morgan Stanley

Appeals Board: McGraw wasn't representing West Virginians

CHARLESTON - 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 Purdue Pharma. Instead, the ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, West Virginia Record,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Darrell McGraw,  Department of Health,  Jonathan Miller

Workman: Former justice's e-mails should be released

CHARLESTON - State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman has filed her dissent in a public records case, arguing that 13 e-mails written by former Justice Spike Maynard should have been released to the public. Workman's dissent, released Wednesday, ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, West Virginia Record,  18 Nov 2009

McGraw's OxyContin case causes $2.7M Medicaid hole

WASHINGTON - The federal government will withhold more than $2.7 million from its next Medicaid appropriation to the State of West Virginia because of a settlement engineered by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw. An Oct. 29 decision by the ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, West Virginia Record,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Darrell McGraw,  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,  Department of Health,  Jonathan Miller,  U.S. Republican Party

N.C. deputy AG nominated to FTC

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - President Barack Obama has nominated a member of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's staff to the Federal Trade Commission. Obama on Tuesday nominated Julie Brill, who came to the North Carolina Department of ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Legal NewsLine,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Roy Cooper,  Federal Trade Commission,  Patrick Leahy

Scruggs' judge gets 18 months

ABERDEEN, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Former Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter received an 18-month prison sentence Friday, becoming the latest Mississippi legal figure to be punished for his role in a judicial bribery scheme. DeLaughter ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Legal NewsLine,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bobby DeLaughter,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Senate,  Trent Lott,  William Roberts (politician)

Mayor-Elect Miner picks two Republicans for transition team

Syracuse Mayor-elect Stephanie Miner has announced an 81-person transition team to help her set policy and fill jobs at City Hall before she takes office Jan. 1. Miner, a Democratic common councilor, chose Republicans as two of the three co-chairs of ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Syracuse.com,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John Feinblatt,  Michael Bloomberg,  U.S. Democratic Party

Firefighters Battle Blaze in Cayuga County

Firefighters from nine departments were called to a house fire in Cayuga County early this morning, according to a 911 dispatcher. The fire was reported at 4:04 a.m. at 9640 Oakland Road in the town of Brutus, the dispatcher said. Firefighters were ...

From JOHN O'BRIEN, Syracuse.com,  14 Nov 2009

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