Using computerized measuring equipment, the AGS verified that each stone was cut and polished to rigorous standards.
In exchange, the AGs would agree to release the banks from potential liabilities that states might pursue.
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Ags are also in the mix, the leaders being CF Industries (CF), Monsanto (MON) and Agrium (AGU).
In many instances, state AGs essentially relinquish authority over the course of litigation to the private lawyers hired.
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Specifically, there is no easy way to output from AGS to mobile formats.
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Since McCain had barred the tobacco companies from the negotiations, Moore and the other AGs found themselves serving as reluctant surrogates.
The AGs haven't gotten together again on anything as big as tobacco.
However, what AGS gives with one hand, it takes with the other.
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State AGs have used outside lawyers for a wide variety of similar cases, some with more than a whiff of entrepreneuralism about them.
Finally, he asked Moore to fly to Washington to serve as a sounding board, along with a team of other AGs and trial lawyers.
The settlement also specifies that in most states, the money will go to the AGs, who will have sole discretion how it will be spent.
HUD, Treasury, FTC and the Justice Department, along with state AGs, are working together and in close communications on the best ways to protect consumers.
Craigslist, by all appearances, complied with the state AGs recent demand.
Unless the AGs have gotten a better understanding of economics, unlikely.
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What would the AGs accept as substantiation for a health claim?
The federal regulators slap on the wrist against banks has now put AGs in a position to wrap up their own investigation in a similar matter.
Spitzer was also willing to take on large industries rather than settling for run-of-the-mill frauds that were often the typical focus of state AGs, explained C.
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Even if Schneiderman wanted to go after banks in the matter he would have a hard time doing so because of the lack of evidence and documents the AGs have managed to gather.
Using computerized measuring equipment, the AGS verified that each stone was cut and polished to rigorous standards, which can take up to four times longer than normal cutting and, in the wrong hands, result in a ruined stone.
The ags and the refiners had a spirited move to start the third quarter and continued well: CF Industries (NYSE:CF), Monsanto (NYSE:MON), Agrium (NYSE:AGU), Mosaic (NYSE:MOS), the ones we focus on for the Pricepoint Sheet and Off the Charts.
The good news for BofA is that an agreement with with the rest of the states attorneys general (Bloomberg reports that there may be a few other AGs may hold out) may be a little less severe than initially feared.
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The 1998 master tobacco settlement between the state AGs and the tobacco industry created a legal (according to some) cartel that protected Philip Morris and the other dominant cigarette manufacturers against competition, something they could never accomplish on their own.
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The dominant tobacco companies, especially Philip Morris (now Altria) got a virtual cartel that allowed them to immediately raise cigarette prices without facing competition from smaller companies, since the AGs wrote into the pact clauses that required new companies to pay into the settlement even though they had nothing to do with the alleged behavior behind the lawsuits.
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For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.
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