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- Ex-inmate accuses prisons of consumer fraud for charging too much for cigarettes
Illinois prison officials charge inmates too much for cigarettes, according to a lawsuit filed by a former inmate.Timothy Giancana, who did time at the downstate Vandalia Correctional Center from 2007 to 2009, alleges the prison system is guilty of consumer fraud for marking up tobacco and non-tobacco commissary goods beyond the 25 percent and 35 percent, respectively, allowed by law. In making ...
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Hood Seeks Transparent Claims Process
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and other Gulf states attorneys general will meet today with Ken Feinberg, BP claims administrator for the Obama administration, to present a protocol for residents filing claims against the oil giant for damages due to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Group: Rescind K-2 laws by locals
JONESBORO Throughout Northeast Arkansas, cities and counties have passed ordinances in recent months banning the sale of synthetic marijuana and making its use illegal.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Dan Snyder Uses Smoke and Mirrors, Hold the Mirrors, to Sell Club Seats?
For the cha-chingy print platform of Washington City Paper , I wrote this week about the "cigar bar" that Dan Snyder uses to sell club seats. Pick up a copy, read the story, respond to every paid personal ad, do the right thing.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Steuben County Attorney Fred Ahrens stepped down this week after nearly 30 years in the post.
Bath, N.Y. As Steuben County Attorney Fred Ahrens prepared to step down this week, he recalled his appointment as the countys chief legal officer came during a bitterly cold February day in 1981.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Mark V. Vlasic: The Next Financial Reform Floodgate
A lot can turn on an active verb. Hamlet said, "To be or not to be--that is the question." The same applies to the new...
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Why Pimco likes stocks
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tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Michigan
Michigan Michigan falls short on legislative remedies to fight cancer, though it received top scores for its law banning smoking in workplaces and increasing taxes on tobacco, the American Cancer Society said in a report Thursday.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - By Hiring Gulf Scientists, BP May Be Buying Silence
For months now, local scientists have been out on Gulf waters, advising the cleanup and measuring the damage. But there is growing concern that some of the best minds are being sidelined, since they've signed on as paid consultants to BP.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010 - Why a flounder gigger's suit against BP is one to watch
Although it's probably not BP's top priority at the moment, an ominous lawsuit was filed against it last month in state court in Mobile, Alabama, by a man named Obie F. Carlisle.
tobacco litigation 31 Jul 2010
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