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	<description>The AEI Federalism Project’s Eye on Attorneys General</description>
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		<title>L&#8217;etat c&#8217;est AG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zurich American Insurance Company and a hodgepodge of AGs have reached a settlement.  The AGs tacked on an extra $20M---11% of the $171.7M deal---in this nifty clause: "the monies may be, at the sole discretion of the Settling Attorney General in each signatory state, applied for any of the following purposes: (i) payment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Only Two Things in Life Are Certain: Death and Spitzer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eliot "I Triple Dare You" Spitzer has sued H&#038;R Block.  The suit was filed in Kansas City federal court because H&#038;R Block is a Kansas City-based company.  Eliot Spitzer is the Attorney General of New York.  There are about nine or eleven states between Missouri and New York, and we'd bet that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=63</link>
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		<title>3 Ways of Looking at an AG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I
At least one AG sees the light.  Trey Walker, spokesman for South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, described the Master Settlement Agreement: "one of the most disgraceful abuses of the legal system that [McMaster has] ever seen."  Mr. McMaster, who stepped into the office five years after the MSA was signed, understands that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=62</link>
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		<title>The Pot of Gold is Only Make Believe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Attorneys General used its "Meeting of the Minds" to take full credit for the nationwide drop in cigarette sales.

While the NAAGers were busy patting themselves on the back, the rich got richer.  The #1 effect of the Master Settlement Agreement is to cartelize government and Big Tobacco.  Fewer cigarettes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Gosh, That Henry Fonda Sure Is Something</title>
		<description><![CDATA["And, of course, I'd like to thank the jury for their service, their attention to the facts and evidence that led them to this moment, and their courage in rendering a historic verdict that, ultimately, will help make Rhode Island a safer and better place to live."---Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch

It was a dark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=60</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s an unintended consequence of the global settlement.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That statement from Samuel Jones of Trillium Asset Management underscores the thrust of the Reuters article "Wall St research suffers since Spitzer deal."

Mr. Spitzer's rough-n-ready litigulation of Wall Street gives the stock market a superficial glow of "fairness."  But, as Gianonne and Kahn find, the fairness is a fairy tale; Spitzer's overhaul puts the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Litigulation Loophole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Minnesota AG Mike Hatch, the methamphetamine problem in the Midwest is caused by Sudafed and other cold medications that contain pseudoephedrine or ephedrine.  Fantastic!  We have isolated the problem.  Now, how do we fix it?  

Does Mr. Hatch

(A) press state lawmakers to regulate Sudafed in Minnesota?

(B) press federal lawmakers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Fibbies (Sorta) Follow AG Watch Tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most days, AG Watch does not get the jump on the Federal Bureau of Investigation; yesterday, we did.  And we're bragging about it.

On May 31, 2005, we pointed to the connection between Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro's campaign fund and state contracts for legal services.  Now the FBI is investigating the corollary: folks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Update: Is Eliot Spitzer Good for America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know where AG Watch stands on that question.

On Monday, January 23rd, Professor Richard Epstein and Professor James Tierney debated this topic on the Columbia Law School campus.  We now have the audio!

This debate was a rematch of a debate held in September 2005.  You can listen to that first debate by clicking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Feed A Stray Dog Unless You Want a Pet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony BMG and Warner Music threw Eliot Spitzer some scraps a few months ago, and now he's pawing at the screen door again.

Mr. Spitzer's Payola investigation of the recording industry pried open the honeypot; now he's after the airwaves, lobbing subpoenae at nine radio conglomerates, including Clear Channel, CBS, and ABC.  Of course, his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=55</link>
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