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Private lawyers won't be cashing in on contract given to them by former Mississippi AG

By John O'Brien | Monday, May 11, 2020 @ 6:35am

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - It doesn’t look like private lawyers who scored a contract with former Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood will get the payday they were seeking when he hired them in October 2015.
St. Louis attorney sues foreign banks alleging they helped Iran sponsor terror; Suit modeled after case filed in May

By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Nov 29, 2016 @ 4:46pm

EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyers who for 12 years have pursued claims that banks helped Iran sponsor terror attacks have earned the high compliment of imitation.
Deutsche Bank deflects blame in suit claiming it financed terror that killed, maimed local men

By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Aug 2, 2016 @ 3:57pm

EAST ST. LOUIS – Deutsche Bank of Germany, defending a claim that it provided Iran with material support for attacks on U.S. troops, argues that the theory behind the claim would implicate the United States itself.