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Illinois AG set to ask state supreme court to force Blagojevich from office

December 11, 2008 05:04:00 PM

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan told CNN Thursday that she would go before the Illinois Supreme Court to have Governor Rod Blagojevich declared unfit to hold office if he did not...

December 10, 2008 04:06:00 PM

Melanie Sloan : "Federal prosecutors face some difficult hurdles in making a criminal case against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. The first half of the criminal complaint against the governor involves allegations of a "pay to play" system. Forty...

December 9, 2008 10:00:00 AM

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on charges of corruption . They have both been charged [DOJ...

September 25, 2008 10:32:00 AM

Thirteen state attorneys general urged the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Wednesday to withdraw a proposed rule that they said could threaten women's access to abortion and birth control....

May 1, 2008 04:01:00 PM

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday dismissed an appeal of an injunction suspending a Washington state law that would require pharmacists to dispense Plan B emergency contraceptives [product backgrounder; JURIST news...

April 24, 2008 09:45:00 AM

Former White House advisor Karl Rove was allegedly involved in a 2004 scheme to have Chicago-based US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald fired, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. According to the prosecutor, a witness at the...

November 9, 2007 10:28:00 AM

A federal judge Thursday issued an injunction suspending a Washington state law that would require pharmacists to dispense Plan B emergency contraceptives , the so-called "morning-after pill." US District Judge Ronald Leighton's injunction effectively creates a...

October 12, 2007 06:44:00 PM

Brigid Leahy : "We are pleased with the outcome of the settlement in Menges, et al v. Blagojevich. Our concern has always been for the woman who needs her prescription for contraception...

October 11, 2007 09:35:00 AM

Illinois pharmacists who morally object to dispensing Plan B, the "morning-after" pill, will be permitted to refuse to fill prescriptions for the drug but must work with another pharmacist by phone to dispense the contraceptive, under a settlement submitted...

September 25, 2007 01:05:00 PM

The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois Monday filed a federal lawsuit against state of Illinois in an effort to invalidate a state law that wold prevent employers from...

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