CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline)-The Nevada Tax Commission on Monday is expected to decide whether to grant a $70 million tax refund to Southern California Edison Co.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Attorneys general from Colorado and Kansas on Monday will appear before the U.S. Supreme Court to settle a dispute over expert witness fees related to a long-running water dispute.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Legal Newsline)-Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has the highest approval rating of any statewide office holder in the Grand Canyon State, a poll indicates.

MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A Wisconsin state appeals court has rejected the city of Milwaukee's effort to force a former lead paint manufacturer to pay for the cleanup of thousands of contaminated properties.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) -- A recent judicial ruling expected to be appealed soon to the California State Supreme Court could have a dramatic impact on future product innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, according to legal and medical experts.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- Florida's attorney general has joined with the attorneys general of 41 other states in asking the Federal Trade Commission to strengthen notices about used vehicle damage in "Buyer's Guides."

OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline)-Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and Gov. Christine Gregoire plan today to sue the federal government over the cleanup at the Hanford nuclear reservation.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline)-Amid mounting pressure from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the American International Group has announced it will limit executive pay package, with its chief executive, Edward Liddy, receiving only a $1 a year plus equity grants.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) -- A campaign advertisement that falsely claimed the Massachusetts governor's endorsement of a candidate has lead to a civil penalty and stringent control of campaign materials for Governor's Councilor Kelly Timilty.

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline)-Since February, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has been taking dead aim at trucking companies working out of California ports for their abusive treatment of employees.

TUMWATER, Wash. (Legal Newsline)-Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna says he plans to ask state lawmakers next year to ban the shipment of Internet-purchased cigarettes to anyone other than licensed wholesalers or retail stores.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) -- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking the Division of Insurance to review the new auto insurance rates of Worcester-based Premier Insurance, a subsidiary of Travelers Insurance.

DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline)- Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says he will likely remain in Iowa despite talks about him possibly serving in President-elect Barack Obama's administration.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-A settlement between retail giant Wal-Mart and the state of California will give shoppers a few extra bucks this holiday season, Attorney General Jerry Brown said Monday.

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) -- Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal has asked the Department of Utility Control (DPUC)
to reject locally-based United Illuminating's request for an $81.5 million
rate increase.

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) -- Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal has filed a lawuit against Hamden Plains Cemetery for failing to properly mark graves and maintain the
property grounds.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) -- A Pennsylvania man has been permanently prohibited from operating rental properties or acting as a landlord in the state following a consumer protection agreement with the attorney general.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)--As Capitol Hill remains under siege from all sides of America's faltering economy, pressure to stem the tide of foreclosures continued to make inroads as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became the latest to join the foreclosure freeze movement.

NEWARK, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - Ten gas stations cited for violations are getting apologies instead from New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - It looks like a federal judge's suggestion that a group of state attorneys general and a major pharmaceutical company reach a settlement has gone unheeded.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) -- Yogi Berra isn't the spokesman for the state of California, but about the only way to describe the ongoing budget battles is the classic Yogism, "It's deja vu all over again."

While some state attorneys general are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of a landmark tobacco settlement, a free enterprise group is using the opportunity to publicize its stance against it.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - It looks like the feud between West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw and a legal reform group is going to last four more years.

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - The Connecticut General Assembly has appropriated nearly $7 million from funds received through the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement to anti-smoking programs.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The souring U.S. economy is likely to bring a flurry of lawsuit filings, a report says.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) -- The state court Administrator has fired back about accusations made in the press by a recently fired Supreme Court employee.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Legal Newsline)-Arizona needs to overhaul the way ballot measures are handled, the state Supreme Court said in ruling this week.

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)-The state's human trafficking laws need to be strengthened so people are not deprived of their basic human rights, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Beleaguered homeowners received a powerful boost when President-elect Barack Obama said confronting the housing crisis will be one of his first orders of business upon taking office in January.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) - If the Illinois Supreme Court decides to strike down limits on medical malpractice awards it could mean fewer doctors practicing in the state, sources told Legal Newsline Tuesday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Massey Energy's case against the administrative director of the state Supreme Court regarding access to outgoing Justice Larry Starcher's e-mails has been dismissed.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The argument over $14 million in attorneys fees from a $100 million state settlement will be settled in a Mississippi court, and state Auditor Stacey Pickering thinks the decision may come quickly.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-A California-based advocacy group that helped start the grassroots foreclosure freeze movement has taken its appeal to help homeowners to Capitol Hill this week.

OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - More than 11 months later to pleading guilty a judicial bribery scheme involving disgraced former plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, fellow attorney Joey Langston was given his sentencing date.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) A fraudulent debt elimination scheme in Florida that allegedly victimized more than 2,000 consumers has lead to a $240,000 settlement agreement between the state and two individuals.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) -- Massachusetts Attorney General
Martha Coakley has obtained a preliminary injunction against process
server Stokes & Levin, Inc. for allegedly falsifying the service of
legal papers.

DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden apparently will not take over for his father, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, in the Senate.

BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline) -North Dakota's workers' compensation entity kept its surplus illegally high, state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - A former West Virginia Supreme Court employee says the reason he was fired last week is because he is suspected of leaking photographs that might have cost Chief Justice Spike Maynard re-election and that he accused the court administrator of making racial comments in the office.

DETROIT, Mich. - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is trying to raise health insurance rates for the self-insured, Attorney General Mike Cox said Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre will look for new ways to protect homeowners facing foreclosure despite losing a bitter re-election campaign on Nov. 4, he told Legal Newsline.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Confirmation of the District of Columbia's acting attorney general will go to the full City Council after a committee rejected his nomination.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Seven state attorneys general have written to federal lawmakers, urging them to require financially troubled automobile makers to produce more fuel-efficient cars if those companies receive federal help.

TOPEKA, Kansas (Legal Newsline)-Seventeen pharmaceutical companies are being sued by Kansas Attorney General Steve Six on top of the 13 drug companies for allegedly price gouging the state's Medicaid program.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Legal Newsline)-Arizona's attorney general is investigating claims the Arizona Republican Party broke campaign finance laws by failing to identify who provided $105,000 in political contributions.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles T. Wells has notified Gov. Charlie Crist that he will retire from the high court at the close of business March 3.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline)-Citigroup should eliminate bonuses for its top executives, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said after the financial services company announced it was cutting an additional 53,000 jobs.

WOOD RIVER, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-YTB International Inc., the online travel company that is the target of investigation by two state attorneys general, posted meager earnings in the third quarter, corporate filings show.

SANTA FE, N.M. (Legal Newsline)-A $14.9 million jury award to the family of a New Mexico man who was killed in an fiery explosion has been upheld by the state Court of Appeals.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A paralyzed man who has sued hundreds of California small businesses to gain accommodations for the disabled on Monday lost his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to lift an order requiring special permission for him to file new lawsuits.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin should have recused himself from the $50 million case of a heavy campaign supporter.

SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. government, along with Oregon and California, and PacifiCorp have announced an agreement that could resolve the long-running environmental dispute over Klamath River water.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-The Illinois Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal by Sprint Nextel Corp. over its lawsuit with affiliate iPCS Inc.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a decision that held three companies not liable for the injuries of a 13-year-old who was temporarily blinded by mud and rode his bike into three of their wires.

AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - Only a few weeks remain until Maine lawmakers will choose the state's next attorney general.

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Funds from settlements in the pharmaceutical world should go toward an initiative to stop tobacco use, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal feels.

TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) -- New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that the state will be receiving $4 million to pay for the cleanup of what was once one of the nation's worst landfills

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration will resume paying health care providers under a state Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that put a hold on a judge's order to jettison an expansion of the state's FamilyCare program.

IRVINE, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-Foreclosures in October rose 5 percent nationwide, a gain that is 25 percent higher than this month a year ago, according to comprehensive data released on Thursday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - The landmark tobacco settlement of 1998 is good for both the participating states and the tobacco companies that got in on the ground floor, a lawsuit recently filed by the sixth-largest tobacco company in the country says.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Reigning in skyrocketing medical costs and enacting health care reform ought to be a priority for President-elect Barack Obama and the next Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance said.

CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against Las Vegas-based company, claiming it cheated Illinois small business by "cramming" them.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-Being a trial lawyer is the noblest profession in America, some 500 lawyers who gathered here for the annual Consumer Attorneys of California convention heard from one of the nation's most famed plaintiffs' attorneys.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-When San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced her intention to run for state attorney general in 2010 on Wednesday, it came with a caveat that she'll only run if current Attorney General Jerry Brown does not, thus becoming yet another Democratic Party domino waiting to fall in what may be a major California shake-up in 2010

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) -- Citigroup became the latest financial giant to take measures designed to assist troubled homeowners in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure, according to published reports.

Oakland, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Just a month ago, when the terms of the largest settlement in home mortgage history were announced, many hailed the settlement as the first significant step to providing needed relief to homeowners buried in rising interest rates and declining property value.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Money from a settlement with the nation's largest power provider will be used in New York to help low-income households cut their home heating costs.

ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court recently disbarred an attorney whose former firm represented the State of West Virginia in litigation against the manufacturer of the prescription painkiller OxyContin.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Legal Newsline) - The Minnesota Supreme Court will welcome back incumbent justices Lorie Skjerven Gildea and Paul Anderson following their wins in Tuesday's elections.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A court-ordered audit of an insurance brokerage firm in Massachusetts has resulted in an additional $410,000 for customers and the Commonwealth, Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, said Friday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the state's Check-Cashers Act of 1999 was unconstitutional because of the triple-digit interest rates it allowed lenders to charge consumers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio's Attorney General Office has experienced differing measures of success against two Columbus home improvement contractors recently.

BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) - A home-building company will pay $925,000 in restitution to consumers who had their contracts canceled as a result of a settlement engineered by Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Eliot Spitzer might have lost his job as New York's governor because of a prostitution scandal, but he apparently won't lose his freedom.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)--It's been called a bailout and a boondoggle, a market correction and a rescue plan, a savior and a swindle. But the impact of the recent $700 million given by Congress to strengthen the country's lending institutions remains completely unclear, leading financial analysts say.

WASHINGTON D.C. (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will argue before the United States Supreme Court Monday in a case over drug analysis certificates and a defendant's right to confront his accuser.

ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) -- Alexandria, Va.-based Goal Financial has reached a $350,000 settlement agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

HOUSTON, Tex. (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday that small-business owners in Texas will benefit from his settlement with the credit company that purchased a now-defunct company.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King is upset with new demands made by the federal Medicaid agency seeking to claim what it feels is its share of funds recovered from legal actions against pharmaceutical companies.

BOSTON, Mass. (Legal Newsline) -- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a settlement agreement with Pittsfield-based Berkshire Gas Company that resolves an investigation into the company's handling of a gas supply contract in 2004.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett outlined the goals for his second term at a news conference today in Harrisburg

Advertising for erotic services on the Web site craigslist will require posters to provide a phone number and credit card, thanks to an agreement reached by the company and 43 state attorneys general.

RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - Republican incumbent Bob Edmunds retained his spot on the North Carolina Supreme Court Tuesday with a close win over Suzanne Reynolds.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - Fifteen states and the federal government have blocked a proposed advertising agreements between Google and Yahoo, Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said Wednesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-Justice Ann Hannaford Lamar defended her seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court by a wide margin on Tuesday.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline)-Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna on Tuesday handily won a second term as the Evergreen State's chief legal officer.

LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline)-Diane Hathaway on Tuesday became the first challenger to unseat an incumbent Michigan Supreme Court justice since 1984.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline)--After spending more campaign money than any other state Supreme Court election, Republican Greg Shaw claimed victory over Democrat Deborah Paseur for an open seat on the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday morning.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Menis Ketchum's strong showing Tuesday night in the race for two open spots on the West Virginia Supreme Court even surprised him.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline)--Hundreds of people were crammed into a ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel in Columbus with Democratic attorney general candidate Richard Cordray when he was projected the winner of the race.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Another close race, another win for West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - After an early scare, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett overtook his Democratic opponent Tuesday and will keep his job.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline)-After just narrowly winning the Missouri Democratic primary, Chris Koster went on Tuesday to trounce the Republican AG nominee, Michael Gibbons.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - President Bush won't have to worry about being tried for murder in Vermont.

SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline)-Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff handily won a third term Tuesday night, early results show.

RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The people of North Carolina have elected Roy Cooper to be their attorney general for a third time.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline)--In the state that has become a national poster child for the problems of contested judicial elections, 2008 brought relative stability.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania incumbent Tom Corbett has pulled out in front of Democratic challenger John Morganelli in the race for attorney general.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - In the race for Ohio Attorney General, Democratic state Treasurer Richard Cordray is holding a 19-percent lead over his two opponents with 38 percent of precincts reporting.