Rep. Rangel Sets Up Defense Fund to Pay Legal Fees: Report - FOXBusiness (LAW)

Rep. Rangel Sets Up Defense Fund to Pay Legal Fees: Report - FOXBusiness
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) set up a defense fund to help pay the mountain of legal bills from his unsuccessful effort to beat congressional ethics charges, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The representative for Harlem -- who was punished with a
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Kansas Dem's plan would block Kobach's legal work - Kansas City Star
The top Democrat in the Kansas House says he'll pursue legislation to prevent Republican Secretary of State-elect Kris Kobach from representing legal clients in immigration cases. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Wednesday that House Minority Leader
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Court ruling puts Obamacare on legal life support - The Oakland Press
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” unconstitutionally imposes a requirement that everyone carry health insurance or be taxed for not doing so, has placed the law on
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Patrick finds one-month lifeline for legal immigrant health plan - Abington Mariner
Although the Patrick administration had warned that a health coverage program that serves about 22,000 legal immigrants would run out of money by the end of December, Gov. Deval Patrick now says funding exists to keep the program alive through January
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Plan aims to cut state legal costs - Olympian
Attorney General Rob McKenna says Washington taxpayers pay too much for the negligent acts of their government, and he's drawing up proposals for the 2011 Legislature that might lower future costs. Washington paid more than $50 million in judgments and
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IHOP restaurant chain drops legal case against International House of Prayer - Seattle Times
LOS ANGELES — The International House of Pancakes (or IHOP) has dropped its trademark-infringement lawsuit against a church, agreeing to resolve its dispute with the International House of Prayer out of court. The restaurant chain sued the church in
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Officials' legal claims an insult to taxpayers - AZCentral.com
The spectacle now unfolding within Maricopa County government - that of county-elected officials, judges and managers lining up to sue the taxpayers for whom they work for "damages" - is not quite on a par with the abuses of law and decency we have
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Much happened on 2010 legal front - San Jose Mercury News
While the state budget and construction projects in the Superior Courts around San Bernardino County captured attention in 2010, a number of significant cases also drew headlines this year. Monthly court closures and furloughs ended locally in June - after
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