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• EXAMINING THE MIND OF A CHARITY REGULATOR: THE L.B. RESEARCH FOUNDATION SETTLEMENT IS REVEALING

  
  Charity Governance — Authority: 395
  DATELINE: December 7, 2009, Chicago The California Attorney General settled its lawsuit against L.B. Research Foundation, Gerald Buckberg and five other directors earlier this month. The case involved allegations that the defendants abused their authority, committed fraud, diverted funds, and...
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• Deputy Attorney General to Step Down in February

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  David W. Ogden said tensions did not prompt his decision.
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• Biltmore Estate The National Attorney General Conference – Puggal Latest News and events

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  MyFox Phoenix Biltmore Estate The National Attorney General Conference Puggal Latest News and events The winter conference of The National Association of Attorneys General will be held this week at Arizona Biltmore Resort. The agenda is to establish a ... Attorneys general home in on ...
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• Cole Attack Trial Will Test Tribunal System

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 162
  The decision to use a military commission to prosecute Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the bombing of the destroyer, instead of a civilian court has set off a debate.
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• Affiliate Marketing in the Regulators’ Cross-Hairs – By Thomas A. Cohn

  
  Affiliate Marketing Magazine — Authority: 413
  Advertising claims by merchants have long attracted the attention of state Attorneys General (AG) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but recently these regulators have signaled a willingness to pursue advertising cases against a new target: online affiliate marketers. Until recently, affiliates have operated ...
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• Trial Without Major Witness Will Test Tribunal System

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Investigators examined the Navy destroyer Cole after it was attacked by two Qaeda suicide bombers on the southern coast of Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000.
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• In Supreme Court Spotlight, Challenges to Criminal Justice

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Conservatives and libertarians are joining civil liberties groups in saying that the criminal justice system is an aspect of big government that must be contained.
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• Wells Fargo Settles Lawsuit Over Auction-Rate Securities

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The bank said on Wednesday that it had agreed to buy back $1.4 billion in auction-rate securities it sold to investors before the market dried up last year. The decision settles a lawsuit brought against the firm by Californias attorney general.
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• Vonage Reaches $3 Million Settlement With 32 States [Refunds]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 803
  If you had trouble canceling your Vonage account in recent years and ended up getting charged for services you didnt want, you might be eligible for a refund under an agreement Vonage just made with the attorneys general of 32 states. At issue were incentive programs Vonage offered to CSRs for retaining ...
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• Buzz Kill: The FDA Wants to Regulate How You Party.

  
  Big Government — Authority: 812
  Many remember a creation, or rather concoction of The Drew Carey Show , Buzz Beer. The delightfully titled beverage was a mix of coffee and a presumably dark beer… stout perhaps. Buzz Beer almost became a character of its own, as it evolved into an ongoing enterprise, run out of Drew’s garage. If the show were ...
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• Another Craigslist housing-ad crackdown

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 631
  Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley nails twenty property owners and real estate agents over “no kids”, “no Section 8″ language in Craigslist ads [ Legal NewsLine ] Tags: attorneys general , Craigslist , housing discrimination , Massachusetts Related posts Updates – May 31 (11) ...
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• MISSOURI TAKES UPMIFA FOR A TEST DRIVE: DENIES STANDING TO A DONOR

  
  Charity Governance — Authority: 395
  Dateline: November 11, 2009, Chicago Yesterday, the Missouri Court of Appeals (Western District, Division III) affirmed a trial court’s dismissal of lawsuit filed by a donor against a charity for lack of standing. Hardt v. Vitae Foundation, WD 70525 (Nov....
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• The Lottery That Elected Bob McDonnell

  
  Ballot Box — Authority: 515
  posted by Josh Goodman Republican Bob McDonnell won a smashing, 345,000-vote, 17-point victory in the Virginia governors race last week -- and he wouldnt have won had it not been for the luck of the draw. Three months ago, Larry Sabato wrote a column about how the order in which candidates are listed on the ...
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• Mortgage Fraud Deserves Jail Time

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 433
  Fraudulent actions must have consequences. How is it that with trillions in financial losses and a variety of financial frauds readily apparent, very few individuals have been held accountable? FL, a loyal reader of Sense on Cents , has banged this drum repeatedly. Why hasn’t this fraud been more aggressively ...
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• States Are Pondering Fraud Suits Against Banks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Unable to do much about runaway foreclosures, the states’ top lawyers are thinking of suing banks for fraudulently marketing mortgages.
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• EVT America Delivers Slow, Inaccurate Scooter, No Lemon Law Refund [EVT America]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 803
  Brett wants the EVT America electric scooter he was promised. A scooter that was supposed to have a top speed of 40-45 mph, and required a motorcycle license. Unfortunately, while at top speed the speedometer reads 45 mph, he claims that reality differs. Brett lives in upstate New York, and sent this letter to ...
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• Latest SC Euphemism for Sex...

  
  Ballot Box — Authority: 515
  posted by Alan Greenblatt ... is " going to the cemetery ." Roland Corning, a former South Carolina state legislator, was fired from his job as a deputy assistant attorney general this week after being caught in his SUV, parked in a "secluded" part of a downtown Columbia cemetery, with a stripper and sex ...
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• What to Watch in Virginia, Even as Republicans Sweep

  
  Ballot Box — Authority: 515
  posted by Josh Goodman Barring some dramatic turn of events, Republican Bob McDonnell will be elected governor of Virginia Tuesday. Polls show the Republicans running for lieutenant governor and attorney general also leading by double digits. I wouldnt completely rule out a last-minute ticket-splitting impulse ...
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• Not Running Against Wall St.

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, right, is the current New York attorney general. Eric R. Dinallo, left, said he would abort his campaign if Mr. Cuomo ultimately ran again for attorney general.
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• Speaking at Columbia Law tomorrow

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 631
  The Federalist Society chapter at Columbia Law School is having me in for a lunchtime talk there tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 29) on problems with the changing (and seemingly ever-more-aggressive) role of state attorneys general. James Tierney, former attorney general of the state of Maine and director of Columbia’s ...
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