DES MOINES -- An Illinois law firm did enough business with a client in Iowa to ensure it could be sued there for malpractice in Illinois, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.

HARTFORD, Conn. - With businesses cleaning up in the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the most visible state attorneys general decided to voice his displeasure with a Thursday ruling that struck a 96-year-old antitrust rule.

CLEVELAND - Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann spoke on behalf of investors and against the federal government and two legal reform organizations in a speech he delivered Friday.

OLYMPIA -- If you are sued in the state of Washington you'd best be prepared to appear in court and defend yourself, the state's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company lost some freedom and gained some at the state's Supreme Court of Appeals.

JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri House Minority Leader Jeff Harris has stolen another march on anyone thinking of challenging him for the Democratic nomination for attorney general next year.

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's name recently made it out of the blogosphere and onto youtube.com.

AUSTIN -- A Texas federal court has sustained two major breaches of the Clean Air Act against petroleum refiner and retailer CITGO, owned by the Venezuelan government.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Another day at the U.S. Supreme Court, another decision in favor of business, it seems.

JACKSON, Miss. - Hundreds more Hurricane Katrina-related claims have been settled thanks to an agreement between Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Drug companies cannot escape liability for harmful prescriptions in West Virginia by laying all responsibility on doctors, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is holding fast to its position that it is owed a share of a settlement designed by West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For most observers of the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC), Justice Samuel Alito has been just the newest member of the new USSC conservative majority dominating this term.

SANTA FE -- New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is asking the gasoline industry why his state's retail prices continue to head the national average.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - In his fourth report concerning pharmaceutical marketing, Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell says drug companies spent $2.25 million marketing their products to state physicians, hospitals and universities.

BOISE -- A veteran Boise insurance defense attorney will be Idaho's newest Supreme Court Justice, Republican Gov. Butch Otter announced in a press release late yesterday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A company that recently was sued by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw has fired back.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - When the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was signed in 1998, the attorneys general who signed it intended to use the money it provided to fund health initiatives related to tobacco use.

TOPEKA -- Hard-line local anti-smoking ordinances trump state mandates on workplace smoking, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled late last week.

HELENA -- Montana State Representative John Parker of Great Falls has made official what was unofficially known for months: he is a Democratic candidate for Montana Attorney General in 2008.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An April study by the American Tort Reform Association showed Ohioans overwhelmingly sought transparency from the Attorney General's office.

ATLANTA -- If the United States is going to reach the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 70 percent in the next 50 years, states will find themselves playing an increasingly important role in shaping and enforcing the regulations that will make that reduction possible.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says a crackdown on companies doing business illegally in his state saved taxpayers $1.7 million in the last fiscal year.

AUGUSTA, Maine - The U.S. Supreme Court will review a lawsuit filed against the State of Maine by several motor transport associations that challenges a 2003 law regarding cigarette sales over the Internet.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American business sector's winning record so far this summer at the U.S. Supreme Court must be an embarrassment to the hapless Washington Nationals.

PIEERE -- Republican former South Dakota Attorney General Mark Barnett may be headed for a rapid rise up the state's judicial ranks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A litigation nightmare ended in a dream ruling for Jin and Soo Chung. Now there's the matter of the bill.

GULFPORT, Miss. - The Scruggs Katrina Group, a team of lawyers led by prominent plaintiffs attorney Richard Scruggs, has reached an agreement with Allstate Insurance Co. to create a procedure for settling disputed claims stemming from Hurricane Katrina.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A District of Columbia Superior Court Judge on Monday ruled against Roy Pearson, the administrative law judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million for allegedly misplacing his pants, and ordered him to pay the defendants' court costs.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch has come out the clear winner of his battle with an airport after legislation was passed late Thursday targeted at improving air quality there.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The former manufacturers of lead paint can continue celebrating as they claimed yet another victory Friday in the ongoing saga of public nuisance lawsuits filed against them.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - In response to Marathon Oil's diversity jurisdiction argument, Kentucky's Greg Stumbo recently offered a history lesson from other attorneys general.

DES MOINES -- An Iowa class action lawsuit against the two credit card giants can't stand up because the plaintiffs' injuries are too "remote," the state's Supreme Court ruled today.

MADISON -- E-mails written within a company could be dragged into public light should the venture end in tears, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court gave publicly-traded companies two big reasons to pop the bubbly with a key decision Wednesday.

RICHMOND, Va. - All Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell wanted was a little more time, but the House of Representatives just wouldn't give it to him.

Richard Scruggs, a nationally known trial lawyer with close ties to the Mississippi Attorney General's office, may soon be facing criminal contempt charges as a result of his handling of confidential documents regarding State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.'s handling of Hurricane Katrina-related claims.

TRENTON -- Anne Milgram and Stuart Rabner are now all-but-installed in their new offices as New Jersey's attorney general and Supreme Court Chief Justice.

LINCOLN -- Nebraska Attorney General Jon C. Bruning has had an astonishingly rapid rise through the state's Republican ranks.

OLYMPIA -- The original definition of "blogging" looked to be further undermined yesterday when Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna published his office's first effort.

SACRAMENTO -- California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George has put his own judicial stamp on the state court system's main policy-making body.

AUSTIN -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has apparently decided that it's Big Generic Pharma's turn for some legal heat.

OLYMPIA -- Attorney General Rob McKenna hailed victory in last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on union dues. But Washington's Supreme Court, and ultimately its voters, could wind up the real losers.

AUSTIN -- The Texas Supreme Court has postponed further court action on a class action lawsuit alleging long-term noxious chemical exposure by almost 2,000 plaintiffs.

SACRAMENTO -- The citizen representatives who decide the salaries of California's public officials must think first-term Attorney General Jerry Brown is doing okay for a rookie.

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has charged the biggest two medical clinic chains in the college twin-towns with breaching anti-trust laws.

NASHVILLE -- The unseemly bun-fight leading to the appointment of Tennessee's newest Supreme Court Justice has prompted one commentator to call for judicial elections.

LANSING -- Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox could soon be a big electoral beneficiary of the state's ruling Democratic malaise.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The three law firms hired by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson to sue "big chicken" look set to collect plenty of golden eggs.

TRENTON, N.J. -- The rapid rise of New Jersey's Democratic Attorney-General Stuart Rabner through the Garden State's judicial ranks has hit a political speedbump.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court finally has a full complement of justices with the Friday addition of former Court of Appeals Judge William Koch Jr.

TRENTON, N.J. - It became a landmark week for the future of lead paint litigation Friday when the New Jersey Supreme Court became the second High Court in four days to rule in favor of paint companies in their battles against public nuisance claims.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said a laboratory testing company overcharged his state's Medicaid program and recently announced the settling of those charges.

The Supreme Courts of New Jersey and Ohio will soon make their decisions on the viability of public nuisance lawsuits against paint companies that once produced lead paint.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut recently decided to implement a new bill that is designed to protect consumers who have their health insurance abruptly cancelled.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An emotional trial that has $54 million on the line wrapped up in Washington D.C. Superior Court Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorneys General Marc Dann of Ohio and Greg Abbott of Texas say they were standing up for the rights of investors when they filed a friend of the court brief Monday in a U.S. Supreme Court case.

The manufacturer of the oral contraceptive product Ovcon have settled antitrust allegations with 35 state attorneys general, with several of them making the announcement Wednesday.

JACKSON, Miss. - His decision to file another suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. was "not about money or lawyers," Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood stated Monday.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled today that evidence of social liability was not sufficient in a developer's attempt to seize "blighted" properties in a wealthy St. Louis area.

The Missouri Supreme Court has narrowly rejected an appeal from the city of St. Louis over its public nuisance suit against former manufacturers of lead based paint.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has decided to back up Attorney General Darrell McGraw during the state's battle with federal Medicaid officials, claiming it was never entitled to any of the disputed funds from a settlement.

JACKSON, Miss. - With an agreement settling allegations that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. unfairly treated its customers after 2005's Hurricane Katrina still not reached, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday charged the company with breaching the terms of a settlement that was rejected by a federal judge.

A class action suit against Motorola for its manufacture and distribution of Bluetooth headsets is set for an initial status conference on June 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

AUSTIN -- An agency that placed temporary workers at a construction site "furnished labor" under state statute, the Texas Supreme Court ruled today.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Now that Ohio's new predatory lending law is in effect, Attorney General Marc Dann has filed complaints against 10 companies for violating consumer protection laws.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Armed with a report and a statewide ad campaign, a watchdog group is urging legislators to rein in some of West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw's practices.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Restitution checks are being sent out in Kentucky to the alleged victims of a check soliciting scheme, Attorney General Greg Stumbo said Friday.

HELENA -- The Democrat field for next year's Montana Attorney-General race was already competetive. Until yesterday, though, the Republican side wasn't even a race.

OLYMPIA -- There's more to full compensation in insurance cases than mere money, the Washington Supreme Court re-affirmed in a decision yesterday.

HARTFORD, Conn. - A West Hartford apartment leasing and management company will pay $200,000 to settle with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who alleged the company imposed illegal heat and hot water surcharges.

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's legislature paid attention when Supreme Court Justice Clifford Taylor urged Gov. Jennifer Granholm to delay the appointment of a few judges.

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he would sue those gas companies that wouldn't settle with him, and on Thursday he made good on that promise.

WASHINGTOM, D.C. -- The insurance industry is probably about as happy as insurers ever get following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this week.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - During a juror examination in 2005, Dr. Edward Polack was asked why he wrote that he had a bias against personal injury attorneys.

NEW YORK - A group of 18 state attorneys general is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen the Clean Air Act.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's House of Representatives on Tuesday refused to approve Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's proposal that would have taxed state power plants and provided a refund to ratepayers.

TRENTON, N.J. - Exxon has to pay compensatory damages related to the alleged destruction of a natural resource, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided Wednesday.

HOUSTON -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed action against an Illinois finance company already in legal hot water in its home state over disputed accounts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California Attorney General and Oakland resident Jerry Brown got plenty of Bayside help fending off an intra-party challenge to his efforts to crack down on tailpipe emissions.

JEFFERSON CITY -- Disputed 2007 payments initially withheld by some tobacco companies are gradually trickling into the coffers of state attorneys-general.

MADISON -- A crucial sales tax question for Wisconsin business is now in quadruple overtime before the state's Supreme Court.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann on Monday used a recently reached prevailing wage settlement to springboard his efforts to make those laws more stringent while claiming previous attorneys general have failed to regulate businesses properly.

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan Supreme Court Justice Clifford Taylor says recent cuts to the state's judicial budget are already being felt.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Proving that his controversial efforts to disperse money from a settlement gained on behalf of the West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources are indeed statewide, Attorney General Darrell McGraw last week spread $95,000 between the state's two panhandles.

LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has temporarily appointed to the state Supreme Court a campaign contributor and well-known Arkansas personal-injury lawyer.

AUSTIN -- For Southwestern Bell, it was a case of third time lucky.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- One of the original eight state attorneys-general to settle with 'Big Tobacco' in 1998 is still tracking down transgressors wherever they are.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - After faltering in his plan to distribute an automobile consumers' guide, West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has been the subject of intense scrutiny.

BOSTON - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley recently issued emergency regulations to deal with foreclosure rescue schemes, which she says are plaguing the Commonwealth.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - At the behest of Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, the retail drug store chain Rite Aid will sell four of its stores in the state.

OLYMPIA -- Another Washington Supreme Court election could be headed for the campaign-finance record books.

A class-action suit predicated on the allegedly fraudulent use of gluten in McDonald's french fries was dismissed in part on May 30 in an Illinois federal district court.

DENVER -- Colorado's mortgage brokers could be forgiven for locking the doors and drawing the curtains whenever Attorney General John Suthers passes by.

CARSON CITY -- Nevada's Supreme Court Justices are due for pay increases that will soon place their earnings well above those of neighboring Justices in more populous Arizona.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner is expected to be moving behind the bench when Gov. Jon Corzine announces his nomination for a vacant Supreme Court spot.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - With the first day of hurricane season arriving in Florida, so, too, did another first -- the first consumer advisory.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch recently expressed his desire for greenhouse gas legislation in a letter to Rep. Peter Ginnait.

CHICAGO -- A premises liability suit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County alleges that Wal-Mart negligently placed a push/pull cart near a plant display, leading to a plaintiff's fall and damages upwards of $30,000.