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	<description>The AEI Federalism Project’s Eye on Attorneys General</description>
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		<title>Alcoholic Energy Drinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut does not seem to like unhealthy drinks either. The Connecticut AG and twenty-eight of his colleagues are now targeting alcoholic energy drinks, concerned that these drinks may “appeal to underage drinkers.” It seems that energy drinks are popular among teenagers. Unlike alcohol. Anheuser-Busch even has the audacity to sell these drinks in attractive, bright [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=119</link>
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		<title>It Couldn&#8217;t Possibly be Our Fault</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a decade it has been illegal to raise electricity rates in Illinois. When this freeze expired in January Illinois residents got to enjoy ten years of rate increases all at once. This was not very popular with the voters, naturally, so the legislature is considering making those rate hikes illegal too. The only problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Too Good to be Missed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AGs are not the only state officials who do not understand the principles of federalism--the New Mexico legislature has decided to dabble in interplanetary politics. This Tuesday they declared that Pluto is still a planet when passing over New Mexico. Terrestrial observers suspect that the fact that Pluto was discovered by a native of New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Slimming Down Business in Connecticut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state of Connecticut seems to have a problem with health drinks. Last year their AG went after one which claimed to help prevent colds, and this year they are launching an investigation into Coca Cola and Nestle’s new green tea drink Enviga—which claims to cut calories. The drink makers have to produce all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Look Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State Farm's settlement in Mississippi will catch most AG-related headlines today, but another settlement deserves attention as well.  In 2001, Bayer voluntarily removed Baycol, a "statin" cholesterol-lowering drug, from the market after learning that the drug carried higher risks than other statins.  Bayer notified FDA.

Six years later, 30 state AGs led by Vermont's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=113</link>
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		<title>The Moral of the Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Chicago Tribune, Mississippi will soon settle with State Farm insurance regarding Katrina damages.  Mississippi AG Jim Hood, with some assistance from Dickie Scruggs, has a civil suit against State Farm about the fine points of the fine print in the insurance contracts Mississippians held.

Hood has also filed criminal charges alleging fraud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=112</link>
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		<title>At Least Know the Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One argument in favor of hyperactive AGs runs, "AGs have a special insight regarding the affairs of their particular state's constituents."  While we doubt that pharmaceuticals or SUVs act any differently in each state, we'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment.  However, it is becoming terribly clear that AGs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=111</link>
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		<title>No More Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[S.M. Oliva has a wonderfully depressing story about the Wisconsin Avenue theater after the District of Columbia Attorney General got big antitrust ideas in his head.

The best that can be said for this is that fewer people witnessed the crime that was Jackass Number Two. ]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Consider Us Ahead of the Curve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, the Washington Post's Kirstin Downey summarized the big players in Watters v. Wachovia Bank, which the Supreme Court will hear on November 29th.  Banks and AGs figure prominently, of course.  But the Federalism Project's Federal Preemption event also had a hand, it seems.

The AEI Liability Project will hold an event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=109</link>
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		<title>SCOTUS Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In just two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments in Massachusetts v. EPA, the first in what might become a series of AG-led global warming suits.

On November 21, the Federalism Project will host a panel discussion of the case.  The panel will include Jonathan Adler and Lisa Heinzerling, who authored briefs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalismproject.org/agwatch/?p=108</link>
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