Miscellaneous

More Possibles for AG
From the Post: Among those who are said to be under serious consideration are Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, whom Bush picked to serve as acting attorney general after Gonzales’s Sept...

Report on U.S. attorney firings answers questions on Carol Lam's firing
A nearly 400-page government report blames former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, over the controversial removal of nine U...

Coast Guard Agrees To Vaccine Exemption, Ending Lawsuit
Cath News reports today that the U.S. Coast Guard has now agreed to grant an exemption from its Hepatitis A vaccination requirement to Lt. Cmdr. Joseph J. Healy who has refused the vaccine on religious grounds...

Firms Say No to Bush Yes Man: Alberto Gonzales Having Difficulty Finding Full-Time Job
According to the New York Times, former attorney general Alberto Gonzales can’ find a job after been rebuffed by law firms who are not eager to add a name now synonymous with incompetence and blind partisanship - not to mention torture...

Faking Death to Avoid Court . . . .
Steven Haun was facing charges related to exposing himself to two girls.  So he did what any industrious, boat-owning criminal defendant with a snowball's chance in hell of winning his case would do: he took some unsuspecting friends out on the boat, had them tow him on a raft with a 100 foot line in the middle of the night in the Gulf of Mexico, shed his life vest to trick the friends into thinking he had fallen from the raft, swam to a nearby island where he had stashed a jet-ski, and went on the lam for a bit...

Gonzales aides politicized hirings, investigators find
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Aides to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales improperly considered political affiliations and ideologies in hiring, but Gonzales was unaware of those actions, according to results of an investigation released Monday by the Justice Department internal watchdog...

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Grandparents Visitation Rights
Every state lets elderly grandparents petition to visit grandchildren

Living Wills and Powers of Attorney
Laws effecting the elderly

Lawyer Jokes
Law Humor

How to Select a Divorce Attorney
Select a counselor carefully

US Coast Guard
Switlik Marine Life Rafts Recalled

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

State Farm
Settles with Mississippi Attorney General

Ticketmaster Entertainment
Settles with New Jersey Attorney General

Inflated Drug Prices
Dey LP pays $198,000 settlement to Montana Attorney General.

Hurricane Claims
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. reaches settlement deal with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.