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... ready to knock heads with anyone challenging his legacy as attorney general. In a statement published on CNNMoney.com today, Lockyer blasts critics who accused him of "cobbling" together a weak pretexting case against Hewlett-Packard executives to ... specifically banned by the laws on the book at the time. "The Hewlett-Packard pretexting case certainly has culprits," Lockyer wrote. "Neither I nor lawyers at the Department of Justice are among them." As a political candidate last fall, Lockyer didn ...

"The battle over same-sex marriage: Lockyer won't oppose review; State's high court likely to take case." Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "State Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office, which successfully defended California's ban on same-sex marriage in an appellate court, said Tuesday it won't oppose gay rights advocates' requests that the state Supreme Court review the case."

The California stem cell agency has a new member on its board of directors, a cardiologist from San Jose who once treated former state lawmaker John Vasconcellos. The new member of the CIRM Oversight Committee is Robert Quint, who was appointed to the post by state Treasurer Bill Lockyer. A spokesman for Lockyer said Vasconcellos had recommended Quint. "We were highly impressed with Quint's

"Maria Eagle has made a statement about the publication of the Lockyer Service Review into Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners." Full press release Ministry of Justice, 14th July 2008 Source: www.justice.gov.uk

BILL LOCKYER, CALL YOUR OFFICE! THE NATIONAL PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION COMMISSION has released its report. I hope we'll see some action here.

ProPublica was launched to much fuss and applause as a new institutional backer of investigative journalism of the sort getting scarcer at major news outlets. Now it's placed a new article in the L.A. Times showcasing complaints by California state...

... was never criminally charged, and senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker, who was - that the investigatory techniques were lawful. Nevertheless, Lockyer, who was then running for state treasurer, evidently theorized that ignorance of the law was no defense, which is, indeed ... 29, 2006, long after the events at issue had occurred. When that law finally was enacted, it was a misdemeanor. Nevertheless,Lockyer charged each defendant with four felonies under preexisting laws that he theorized could be applied to ...

... move away from the rating system currently used for municipal bonds, California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has proposed using state pension funds to form a state-owned bond insurer ... crisis, many municipalities have begun foregoing bond insurance altogether. Mr. Lockyer argues that his proposal would solve this problem by increasing capacity while also avoiding the double-rating system he opposes. Tom Dresslar, Mr. Lockyer's spokesman, has stated that the California Treasury "won't have any interest ...

... , Mobile Sierra accommodates buyer's remorse, but not seller's. It is in the panel's expansion of the earlier Lockyer decision that the market-pricing program is dealt what will surely be a fatal blow unless the decisions are overturned. For over a ... market-based sales for the preceding quarter, and triennially demonstrates anew that it continues to lack market power. The Lockyer panel held that a market-based seller who aggregates sales information in its quarterly report is in violation of its ...

... Circuit has partially revived a part of California's erstwhile Financial Information Privacy Law. In American Bankers Association v. Lockyer, the Court held California Financial Code §4053(b)(1) has non-preempted applications and reformed that section to sever its preempted portions. American Bankers v. Lockyer is a preemption dispute that is as old as the 2003 California Financial Information Privacy Act, California Financial Code §4050 et seq., commonly known ...