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AG: BP Trying To Get Alabamians To Give Up Right To Sue Over Spill
Zachary Roth | May 3, 2010, 10:56AM
An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig
BP has been offering $5000 payments to residents of coastal Alabama areas, in exchange for essentially giving up their right to sue the oil giant over its deadly Gulf Coast spill, according to the state's attorney general.
AG Troy King last night urged BP to stop the effort, and told Alabamians to be wary. "People need to proceed with caution and understand the ramifications before signing something like that," King said, according to the Alabama press.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (59) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: BP, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Oil, Troy King
Health Care
Law Prof: GOP State AGs' Objection To Health Bill Is 'Crazy Talk'
Justin Elliott | December 28, 2009, 1:03PM
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC)
The arguments of a group of Republican state attorneys general who are talking up a constitutional challenge to the "Cornhusker Kickback" provision of the health care bill are "strictly political" and do not have legal merit, a law professor tells TPMmuckraker.
"If a private individual brought the suit, the court might assess a fine for bringing a frivolous suit," says Timothy Jost, a health law specialist at the Washington and Lee University School of Law who favors the reform bill.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (63) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Ben Nelson, Health Care, Henry McMaster, Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham, Medicaid, Mike Cox, Nebraska, Timothy Jost, Tom Corbett, Troy King
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