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Montana Supreme Court defies Citizens United ruling
Rejecting a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to make independent campaign expenditures, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that banning such spending is justified given Montana's long history of businesses corrupting the state's political process.The state high court ruled on Dec. 30 that the U.THE INFLUENCE GAME: NFL players lobby Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON AP - NFL players are blitzing Capitol Hill, meeting with about a dozen members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to build political support in a possible labor showdown with team owners.About 20 current and former players were sitting down with lawmakers Wednesday, fanning out in three teams, following a negotiating session a day earlier between players and owners on a new collective bargaining agreement.Bad year or good, AIG employees got big bonuses
NEW YORK AP - A Wall Street firm loses billions of dollars, nearly destroying its business and crippling the nation's economy. But top executives still receive huge bonusesAs crazy as that sounds to most Americans, paying such bonuses even after a company suffers big losses is common practice on Wall Street, and it's at the heart of the outrage surrounding insurer AIG.Proposed rule would unseal some grand jury records
For months, the U.S. Justice Department vigorously opposed the unsealing of former president Richard Nixon's 1975 testimony in the Watergate investigation, saying that disclosure would undermine the secrecy of grand jury proceedings.DOJ lawyers argued judges don't have the authority to craft exceptions to the federal criminal procedure rule that governs grand juries.Arnall Golden Closes Macon Office
Meredith [email protected] 20 years, Arnall Golden Gregory has closed its Macon office. Its three attorneys, Jerome L. Kaplan, Ronald C. Thomason and James P. Smith, have joined the Macon firm Stone Baxter as partners.Arnall Golden in 1985 recruited the three lawyers, who practice bankruptcy and business litigation, because it had no bankruptcy practice at that time, Kaplan said.
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Tax foe takes aim at nuclear prepayment
The sole practitioner whose lawsuit upended the funding mechanism for the Atlanta BeltLine has taken aim at Georgia Power Co.'s plan to pay for two nuclear reactors.At issue is Senate Bill 31, which lawmakers passed this year. It lets Georgia Power increase residential and small business owners' power bills, starting in 2011, to offset costs for the $6.Looking Behind the IRS Scandal
In December 2008, six weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, I participated in a panel on campaign finance at the annual conference of the Council of Governmental Ethics Laws in Chicago.DJs on 99X Spark Suits Over Divorce, Defamation
Court: No liability for motel owner
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4�????3 that a motel doesn't have a legal duty to check on a guest's welfare at his worried wife's request.The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah.TRENDING STORIES
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