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Checks go out to hundreds who settled Katrina lawsuits against State Farm
AP - More than 100 Mississippi policyholders who sued State Farm Insurance Cos. for refusing to cover damage from Hurricane Katrina have been paid this week as part of a multimillion dollar settlement with the insurer, attorneys for the homeowners said.State Farm agreed last month to pay about $80 million to settle lawsuits filed by 640 policyholders whose claims were denied after the Aug.As trial begins, investors wait for repayment
R. Allen Stanford's investors, after waiting three years to see the Texas financier go to trial on charges of leading a $7 billion fraud, must hold on even longer before learning when they will get some of their money back.Stanford's customers have received nothing since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission closed his businesses in February 2009.Could Heery v. DeKalb Schools Suit Be Put To Rest Tuesday?
The special master who recently chopped tens of millions of dollars from massive litigation claims between the DeKalb County School District and its former construction management firm will consider a bid Tuesday to put an end to the seven-year legal odyssey.Lawyer Payback Fund Finally Gets First Donations
Julia D. [email protected] Public Interest Lawyers Fund has collected its first $5,500 for a program that would forgive education loan payments for most lawyers working in the public sector in Georgia.The General Assembly passed Senate Bill 465, the legislation creating the program, last April but didn't provide funding.Experts: Campaign money ruling to have little impact in Georgia
Election lawyers in Georgia say that despite warnings that last week's landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will give corporations significantly more power in elections, including judicial contests, the case will have little impact here. In his dissent to the decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority decision "unleashes the floodgates of corporate and union general treasury spending" in judicial elections.View more book results for the query "*"
Sherwin-Williams GC continues creative streak
Cathy Kilbane is continuing her in-house creative streak: The new general counsel of The Sherwin-Williams Company recently landed at the paint-maker from greeting card firm American Greetings Corporation, where she served as general counsel for nine years.Image access sought in porn case
A man accused of possessing child pornography is asking that 45 felony counts against him be dropped because he hasn't been able to examine the evidence outside the Gwinnett district attorney's office.Firms, lawyers persuade judge to vacate sua sponte sanctions
A federal judge in Texas has vacated $35,000 in sanctions he had imposed sua sponte against four firms and seven lawyers, including a firm and a lawyer from Atlanta, doing away with his previous finding that they had engaged in "attorney misconduct" while litigating a patent case.U.S. District Judge Terry Means of Fort Worth on April 1 issued a 56-page opinion and order in Highmark v.GOP lawyer against voter citizenship legislation
Opponents to a Republican measure that would require people registering to vote to prove they are U.S. citizens have gained an unlikely ally: the general counsel to the Georgia Republican Party.J. Randolph Evans said Thursday that the bill, filed in both houses of the General Assembly and backed by Secretary of State Karen C.Street's success doesn't reflect weakness in U.S. economy
THE STOCK market's stunning gains in the last year make it easy to assume these must be the best of times for the U.S. economy. But government GDP figures tell quite a different tale.It's a good lesson in economics. Wall Street's surge is being fueled by stronger-than-expected corporate profits, which assess how business is going here and abroad.Trending Stories
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