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GOP signals rough path to AG for Holder
The disagreement on the Senate floor last week was ostensibly over timing.While congressional leaders negotiated behind closed doors over proposed loans to Detroit automakers, several Republicans took the floor Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Covington Burling's Eric Holder Jr. They called for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.SEC hands lawyer lifetime ban on grounds of unethical conduct
Japan loves Wal-Mart as samurai debt cuts U.S. costs
Corporate borrowers are turning to Japan for cash that is becoming increasingly hard to get anywhere else in the world. Debt sales in Japan by overseas issuers from Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, to Zurich-based bank UBS AG rose 37 percent to 2.03 trillion yen $18.5 billion this year from the same period of 2007, data compiled by Bloomberg show.Wrongful death suit to be filed in fatal police shooting of woman, 92
ATLANTA AP - Attorneys for the niece of a 92-year-old woman who was shot and killed by police during a botched drug raid have filed a wrongful death claim with the city as a precursor to a lawsuit.Word of the planned lawsuit came as a civil rights activist flew to Washington on Wednesday to meet with congressional leaders as part of an effort to raise awareness of what he calls the misuse of police informants.Justice's former voting rights chief now in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP - The former chief of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section, who stepped aside in December after apologizing for remarks about minority voters, is now working on election-related issues for the Alabama Law Institute.John Tanner, who is being paid by the Justice Department under a federal program, also will teach at two Alabama law schools.Minorities in real estate urged to build relationships
NBCUniversal's GC stays in the limelight
Richard Cotton, the executive vice president and general counsel of NBCUniversal Media LLC, doesn't mind the limelight. He goes on talk shows like "Charlie Rose," testifies before Congress, and often meets journalists for breakfast at the caf overlooking the ice skating rink at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.Management guru 'Doe' wins partial victory over Regents
By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter"John Doe" is suing Georgia's Board of Regents over allegations that it breached a contract to give him the deanship of Georgia Tech's management school in 1997.The Court of Appeals of Georgia ruled March 29 that Doe had a contract with the Board of Regents, but the question of whether the board breached the contract should go to a jury-a partial victory for the plaintiff.Trending Stories
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