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Developers are asking a Franklin County court to strike down Ohio's prevailing-wage law, saying it is unconstitutional to allow labor unions to determine wages paid on public construction jobs. The timing of the motion, filed Monday in Franklin County...
Tags: wages law, Ohio, attorney general, Columbus, Trade union, Prevailing wage, Labour relations, Employment compensation, Wage, Richard Cordray, Labor, Law Crime
United States' largest credit rating agencies deepened on Friday when the Attorney-General of Ohio sued Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, claiming that they had cost state retirement and pension funds about $US457 million ($A499...
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The three major credit-rating agencies benefited from giving better-than-warranted grades to risky mortgage-backed securities, a practice that cost five Ohio retirement funds at least $457 million, state officials said yesterday. Attorney General Richard...
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Ohio’s attorney general sued Standard & Poor’s , Moody’s and Fitch Ratings on Friday, asserting that they provided misleading credit ratings that led to hundreds of millions of losses for state funds. The official, Richard Cordray, filed the lawsuit...
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Callers are posing as representatives of Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's office and demanding personal information, that office said last week. Cordray's office said the calls aren't legitimate and people should not disclose information such as...
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Ohio – Ohio taxpayers are paying for the defense of three former state employees who were sued by "Joe the Plumber." Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher has sued former state employees Helen Jones-Kelley, Douglas Thompson and Fred Williams, alleging that they...
Tags: Columbus, John McCain, Helen Jones-Kelley, Wurzelbacher, Richard Cordray, Mike DeWine, United States presidential election, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Joe the Plumber, Law Crime, Labor
It is hard to believe that Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, with his state facing its own woes, would be hanging around Wall Street looking for a fight. But that is exactly what he has done since being elected Ohio's top lawyer a year ago. He's...
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The games resemble slot machines, but users buy prepaid phone or Internet cards that have "free tokens" to play. | Spinners Cafe owner Steve Cline said the state should go ahead and license the games and charge a fee Huddled over a terminal that beeps,...
Tags: Ohio, Steve Cline, Spinners Cafe, slot machine, sweepstakes machine, Grove City, Gambling, Casino, Richard Cordray, Lotteries, Sweepstakes
The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection...
Tags: lethal injection, Ohio, Columbus, Capital punishment in the United States, Joseph Lewis Clark, Kenneth Biros, Richard Cordray, Social Issues, Law Crime, Romell Broom
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today announced a $400 million settlement in the class action lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Co. Lead plaintiffs in the case included the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, Ohio Public Employees Retirement...
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