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Judge tosses Armstrong's lawsuit; Doping case to continue
AUSTIN - A federal judge has dismissed Lance Armstrong's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, allowing the agency's drug case against the seven-time Tour de France winner to move ahead, the Associated Press reported Monday. -
Texas AG says Google withholding evidence
Abbott AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is seeking a court order to force search engine giant Google to hand over documents in an ongoing probe over possible antitrust violations. -
***FOR PRINT*** Texas AG says Google withholding evidence
Abbott AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is seeking a court order to force search engine giant Google to hand over documents in an ongoing probe over possible antitrust violations. -
Texas AG, minority group begin negotiations over redistricting
Abbott SAN ANTONIO (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office and a minority group opposing the state's redrawn redistricting maps are reportedly negotiating a settlement in order to meet an April 3 primary deadline. -
Legally Speaking: Oh, what a year it was (Part 1)
As 2011 draws to a close, I would like to look back at some of the legal system's less than shining moments during the year. -
Wrongful death lawsuit filed in Texas over Reno airshow crash
This photo from The Associated Press shows debris from the crash of a stunt plane into the spectator's seating area at an air show in Reno, Nev. SHERMAN - The wife of a man killed in a deadly crash at a September airshow in Reno, Nev., has filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the stunt pilot and the Texas company that modified the plane. -
Helicopter maker settles La. lawsuits over 2009 crash that killed 8
Sikorsky S-76C helicopter NEW ORLEANS � The maker of a helicopter that crashed into a Louisiana swamp in 2009, killing eight people, has agreed to settlements with families of several crash victims who filed federal suits against the company. -
***FOR PRINT***Governors of Texas, South Carolina sign tort reform into law
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in Houston Wednesday for the ceremonial signing of a new law that will implement a loser-pays system for frivolous lawsuits filed in the state. -
Governors of Texas, South Carolina sign tort reform into law
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in Houston Wednesday for the ceremonial signing of a new law that will implement a loser-pays system for frivolous lawsuits filed in the state. -
Power struggle emerges over oil spill claims procedures
Becnel Leaders in litigation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill grabbed for power over $17 billion without making sure their followers would back them up. -
Abbott investigating Google
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Google's methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas' attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's most dominant search engine. -
Texas sues feds over offshore drilling ban
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday over its new deepwater offshore drilling moratorium. -
Senate Judiciary Committee approves Kagan
Kagan WASHINGTON(Legal Newsline) - Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. -
Business group never behind La. Senate's contingency bill
Chaisson BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) - A Louisiana business group says it refused to support the Senate version of a bill that would have allowed the Louisiana attorney general to hire private attorneys to sue BP on a contingency fee. -
Referendum on Calif. greenhouse law appears headed for voters
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-California voters will likely be asked in the November general election if the state's greenhouse gas law should be put on hold for rosier economic times, a postponement the Democratic frontrunner for attorney general, Kamala Harris, said Monday would be a colossal mistake. -
Louisiana judge awards $2.6 million in Chinese drywall lawsuit
NEW ORLEANS, La. (Legal Newsline)- A federal judge in Louisiana may have set the standards for thousands of homes tainted with sulfur-emitting drywall imported from China. -
West Virginia lawsuit helped spur crib recall
Drop-side crib CHARLESTON, W. Va. � A death of a Fayette County, W.Va., infant helped trigger this week's recall of more than two million cribs, according to a West Virginia attorney. -
Health care bill rests in moderate Democrats' hands
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)�Months ago, the chief lobbyist for U.S. trial lawyers predicted that moderate Senate Democrats could be an obstacle to President Barack Obama's push for a national health care overhaul.
