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Texas Gov. Rick Perry seems to be threatening to retaliate against grand jurors who indicted him for felony abuse-of-office and is misusing rules to try to toss out the charges before trial, a special prosecutor alleged.
Read More »Voter ID trial seen as test for restoring U.S. oversight
A trial that started Tuesday in Corpus Christi over the legality of a voter ID statute may return the state to U.S. supervision of its treatment of minority voters, restoring what the Supreme Court took away last year.
Read More »Texas gay marriage ban held illegal as judge delays order
A federal judge said Texas’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and should be blocked while opponents seek to overturn it, granting a victory to supporters of gay unions in the nation’s second-largest state.
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Read More »Ex-House leader DeLay’s money laundering conviction tossed
Tom DeLay was convicted in 2010 of violating campaign-finance laws requiring that corporate and individual donations be kept separate and used only for approved purposes.
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Read More »Louisiana levee group sues oil companies over wetlands
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East claims the oil companies degraded storm protections by dredging more than 10,000 miles of canals for pipelines and exploration activities in coastal wetlands.
Read More »BP wants Halliburton to pay all costs from Gulf oil spill
BP seeks to have Halliburton, its cement contractor for the Macondo well project whose blowout set off the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pay all of the oil company’s related costs and damages.
Read More »BP seeks smaller civil fine
BP Plc said the U.S. should calculate its pollution fine for last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill based on how long the damaged well gushed, not on how many barrels of crude it discharged.
Read More »Lawyer said ready to plead guilty in KBR bribes case
British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler will plead guilty to U.S. charges he conspired to bribe Nigerian government officials to help KBR Inc. win contracts for a $6 billion natural gas project, according to a person with knowledge of the case.
Read More »Six charged in insurance scam over fatal boat sinking
Six men were charged in a conspiracy that sold fake insurance policies to operators of the Ethan Allen, a tour boat that sank on New York’s Lake George in 2005, killing 20 elderly tourists.
Read More »Federal judge sentenced to 33 months in prison
U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison Monday after pleading guilty to obstructing a judicial panel’s investigation of charges he sexually assaulted two female employees. Kent, the first sitting federal judge accused of ...
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