Recent Updates
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Obama Commerce pick hits fed fight with Boeing
Legal News Feed 06/22/2011President Barack Obama's pick to head the Commerce Department criticized a federal labor board's lawsuit against the Boeing Co. on Tuesday over the aerospace giant's decision to locate a new plant in South Carolina.The nominee, John Bryson, recently ...
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Senate confirms Obama lawyer as solicitor general
Legal News Feed 06/07/2011The Senate has confirmed White House lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. to succeed Justice Elena Kagan as U.S. solicitor general.With the 72-16 vote, Verrilli will fill a post that has been vacant since the Senate voted Kagan to her Supreme Court seat last A...
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House passes $42.3B homeland security funding bill
Legal News Feed 06/03/2011The GOP-controlled House on Thursday passed a $42.3 billion budget for the government's homeland security efforts after a debate that demonstrated resistance for some of the spending cuts required under austere budget times.The measure passed 231-188...
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Bauer leaving, Ruemmler in as White House counsel
Legal News Feed 06/02/2011President Barack Obama's top lawyer at the White House is resigning to return to private practice and represent Obama as his personal attorney and as general counsel to Obama's re-election campaign. Bob Bauer will be replaced by his top deputy, Kathy...
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Court puts Carl Lewis back on NJ primary ballot
Legal News Feed 05/06/2011Track and field legend Carl Lewis finally found a court willing to help him get into the race for the New Jersey state Senate — but there's a chance his run will be fleeting.A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appe...
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Supreme Court to hear another arbitration argument
Legal News Feed 05/02/2011The Supreme Court will consider a plea from companies that cater to people with bad credit to keep disputes with their customers out of court and in the more business-friendly forum of arbitration. Days after handing businesses a huge victory by limi...
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Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point
Legal News Feed 05/01/2011Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of "economic liberty" that young Americans face today as a "flash point of history" in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it. In a speech to New Hampshire...
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Kan. House debates forcing lawsuit over casino
Legal News Feed 04/28/2011The Kansas House is debating whether it should force the attorney general to file a lawsuit over a proposed state-owned casino south of Wichita. A resolution being discussed Thursday would require Attorney General Derek Schmidt to sue the state Racin...
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House Democrat files suit forcing donor disclosure
Legal News Feed 04/22/2011A top House Democrat is taking legal steps to force the names of political donors to be disclosed.Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission Thursday, challenging a regulation allowing independent groups sp...
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Democrats criticize hiring of firm for House remap
Legal News Feed 04/18/2011Democratic lawmakers are raising complaints about Republican House Speaker Jim Tucker's decision to hire a law firm with national GOP ties to submit the state House remap to federal officials. The head of the House redistricting committee, Democratic...
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Liberals Press Obama to Dump GE CEO From Economic Panel
Legal News Feed 03/31/2011Jeffrey Immelt, the head of GE, is facing backlash from left-leaning groups who say that he shouldn’t be on the White House Jobs Council or any other panel in light of reports that the company last year made $14.2 billion in profit, paid zero in corp...
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NH, RI, NJ Buck Trend, Propose Cigarette Tax Cut
Legal News Feed 03/18/2011Bucking a national trend of raising cigarette taxes, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island have considered reducing theirs, hoping to draw smokers from other states and increase revenue.Supporters argue reducing the tax by a dime would make New ...