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  Jay Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nixon is a native of De Soto, Missouri.
Nixon was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1986.
Nixon was first elected as Missouri's Attorney General on November 3, 1992, on a platform of fighting crime, cleaning up government corruption, and protecting consumers and the environment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_Nixon   (590 words)

  
 Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon is serving his fourth term as Attorney General of Missouri.
Nixon was first elected Attorney General on Nov. 3, 1992, on a platform of fighting crime, cleaning up government corruption, and protecting consumers and the environment.
Nixon also has led the fight to protect the state’s interests in the management of the Missouri River as well as to preserve some of the state’s most valuable natural resources, such as Church Mountain and the waterways of the White River basin.
www.ago.mo.gov /nixonbio.htm   (567 words)

  
 Fulton Sun
Nixon went on to explain that any time a suit is filed against the state, it is the attorney general's name that is put down on the paperwork.
Nixon said he felt Missouri's current policy - requiring county sheriff's departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol to maintain sex offender databases and Web sites that are accessible to the public - was sufficient.
Nixon's most popular answer with his student audience was the one he gave when asked how he felt about deer hunters who carried their guns in their vehicles.
www.fultonsun.com /articles/2004/12/14/news/018news13.txt   (795 words)

  
 Missourinet.com: Nixon Threatens Lawsuit Over Boonville Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Nixon says historic protection and economic development representatives in Boonville have told him the bridge is important for continued development on both sides of the Missouri River.
Nixon says the Natural Resources Department's action to let the Union Pacific Railroad remove the bridge violates the railbanking agreement that allowed the KATY Trail to be established.
Nixon, the state's top legal officer, says he was not contacted by the Department of Natural Resources or by the Blunt Administration before DNR decided to let the railroad have the bridge.
www.missourinet.com /gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=2790BADC-59A6-4C00-BA3C20F9953A62FE&dbtranslator=local.cfm   (189 words)

  
 Missouri Democrat's Senate Drive Is Clouded By Desegregation Case - June 16, 1998
Nixon, the likely challenger to two-term Republican Sen. Christopher S. Bond, tells the Democratic faithful that, unlike the GOP, which he says thrives on racial, religious and ethnic divisions, the Democratic Party is a party that unites.
When Nixon, who is white, offered $304 million to build new schools and renovate existing ones as a means of settling the case last fall, some African-Americans said he was pushing the plan to win points in the white community in the rest of the state.
Nixon points out that the same desegregation case was an issue during his 1996 attorney general re-election campaign, and he won that race handily, receiving 83 percent of the tally in St. Louis and more votes statewide than either Gov. Mel Carnahan or Clinton.
edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/16/cq/missouri.html   (2183 words)

  
 FYI Nixon sues “nonprofit” AmeriDebt for defrauding
Nixon says the employees with whom consumers consult on the phone are salespeople, not trained credit counselors, and they provide no significant help with budgeting or education and training about personal or household finance.
Nixon also says the statements AmeriDebt makes that it will “negotiate” with a consumer’s creditors to obtain the best terms and lowest interest rate are false as well.
Nixon also is asking that the defendants pay civil penalties of up to $1,000 for each violation of Missouri consumer protection laws, as well as pay all investigative, attorney and court costs to the state.
www.cardreport.com /wwwboard39/messages/23333.html   (786 words)

  
 Nixon Redress, Inc.
Nixon argued on Oct. 5 in front of the high court in favor of keeping Missouri's contribution limits, which were passed by the general Assembly in 1994.
Valeo and reaffirms its previous position that the government is entitled to enact such limits to prevent corruption and the perception of corruption, Nixon said.
Furthermore, Nixon said, the court clarified that the $1,000 contribution discussed in Buckley is neither a floor nor a ceiling for future campaign finance reform.
www.redressinc.org /Nixon.html   (401 words)

  
 STLtoday.com Blogs » Mo GOP calls Nixon “pro-abortion”
Using very colorful language, the state GOP questions Nixon’s effectiveness in previous cases involving state restrictions, and concludes that he can’t be trusted in defending the state’s new laws.
Nixon spokesman Scott Holste replied that Nixon has consulted with the Missouri Catholic Conference and Campaign Life Missouri’s director, Sam Lee, as he prepares to defend the state’s new laws.
Jay Nixon will have to answer the direct question of whether he supports “Roe vs. Wade” over and over, if he runs for Governor.
www.stltoday.com /blogs/news-politicalfix/2005/09/mo-gop-calls-nixon-pro-abortion   (970 words)

  
 Nixon calls on state legislature to help cut high youth smoking rate - 2004-11-30 - St. Louis Business Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon and health organizations from across the state are calling on the General Assembly to use tobacco settlement money to address the high rate of teen smoking in the state.
Nixon proposes that the state legislature create a commission, to include the directors of several state agencies, state legislators, members of health-care organizations and Nixon, to choose programs designed to reduce youth smoking.
Nixon cited statistics that show more than 30 percent of Missouri high school students smoke, which is more than the 26.6 percent of Missouri adults who smoke.
www.bizjournals.com /stlouis/stories/2004/11/29/daily27.html?t=printable   (285 words)

  
 CBS News | mo_home | December 13, 1999 07:40:54
Nixon charged it was, "influence-peddling, pure and simple." Some fls, most of whom already supported Bond, complained Nixon was fostering stereotypes by emphasizing that fl criminals were among the inmates released.
Nixon backers argue that Bond's voting record, most notably his opposition to the 1990 civil rights bill, is just election rhetoric.
Nixon rejected BondÂ’s idea of donating $10,000 to a ChildrenÂ’s Hospital, n exchange for an end to the dirty campaign.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/10/15/politics/main20126.shtml   (863 words)

  
 Missouri Attorney General's Office
Attorney General Nixon announced that his office will hold the first of a series of statewide public hearings on the proposed sale of $2.4 billion in assets by the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, and the subsequent proposed transfer of those sale proceeds to state government.
Nixon said the plan not only has left many seniors without needed medication, it also will saddle Missouri taxpayers with $400 million in additional costs over the next five years and infringes dramatically on state sovereignty.
Nixon investigation identifies $306,000 owed to Missouri Medicaid for improper coverage for inmates
www.ago.mo.gov   (1065 words)

  
 Attorney General Jay Nixon Plans to Run for Governor in 2008
Chuck Hatfield, treasurer of the Nixon for governor campaign, said Nixon is starting early because he wants to comply with campaign finance laws that require a state official to show reports when they are raising money for candidacy.
"Jay Nixon's perspective is the old way, spend money you don't have, tax the public beyond their desire and govern irresponsibly, it is the old way that state government was run under the previous administration and that's about the only thing Jay Nixon has to offers to the voters."
Nixon was elected last year and is serving his fourth year as attorney general.
mdn.missouri.edu /2005/STORIES/FGDFG.HTM   (394 words)

  
 Missouri Democrat Statewide Officials
Nixon introduced new aggressive defenses to frivolous inmate lawsuits and has reduced the lawsuits by almost 90 percent at a savings to the state of $19 million in legal fees.
In another significant case, Nixon's work on the settlement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield resulted in the formation of the Missouri Foundation for Health, the state's largest health care foundation, to help provide health care services to underserved areas of the state.
Nixon's actions against fraudulent telemarketing and sweepstakes companies that prey on the elderly have put telemarketers in prison and sweepstakes companies out of business.
www.missouridems.org /Elected_Officials/nixon.asp   (557 words)

  
 Columbia Missourian - Byrd questions Nixon’s record, focus and judgment
Browning: Criticizes Nixon's “refusal” to represent the Child Support Division of the Attorney General’s Office, his “tendency” to farm cases out to outside counsel and the unnecessary expansion of government regulation.
“Jay defended the concealed-and-carry law even though he is on record saying he is personally against it,” Brown said.
Nixon’s record on consumer protection is unmatched by any attorney general in the history of the state, Brown said.
www.digmo.org /news/story.php?ID=10257   (912 words)

  
 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Jay Nixon is a partner at Waller Lansden and practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, general corporate, healthcare and venture capital financing.
Nixon represents clients - both public and private - in a wide variety of capital raising and merger and acquisition activities, including public and private securities offerings (equity and debt), acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture transactions and venture capital financings.
Nixon advised the company on compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, reporting obligations of publicly traded companies, responsibilities of the company's board of directors and board committees, and other issues related to the company's transition to a reporting company.
www.wallerlaw.com /attorney.cfm?currkey=168   (443 words)

  
 SC85399: State ex rel. Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Respondent v. QuikTrip Corporation, Appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Respondent v.
This slip opinion is subject to revision and may not reflect the final opinion adopted by the Court.
Nixon, 37 S.W.3d 237, 241 (Mo. banc 2001), is to prevent predatory pricing, which otherwise would drive competitors from the market and allow the formation of monopolies, which results in higher prices in the long run.
www.courts.mo.gov /Courts/PubOpinions.nsf/0/b729f6270fd8babd86256e660059b56b?OpenDocument   (4142 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Missouri AG files lawsuits under new anti-spam law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed two lawsuits Thursday claiming violations of Missouri's new law aimed at curbing unsolicited commercial e-mail, the first such suits since the law became effective Aug. 28.
One lawsuit names Phillip Nixon of Palm Beach, Fla. The suit claims Nixon (no relation to Jay Nixon) sent at least five unsolicited e-mails soliciting the sale of an architectural plan to the e-mail address nospam@moago.org, which is maintained by the attorney general's office.
Jay Nixon said the message was not labeled as required, and continued to be sent even after reply messages asked that they be stopped.
usatoday.com /tech/news/techpolicy/2003-10-09-mo-spammers-sued_x.htm   (416 words)

  
 Jay Nixon moves to halt Matt Blunt's bridge giveaway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Attorney General Jay Nixon sued the Department of Natural Resources on Thursday to try to stop the dismantling of an old Missouri River railroad bridge that historic preservationists hope could someday become part of the Katy Trail State Park.
And Nixon claims that losing the rights to the bridge could open the entire 200-some-mile stretch of the Katy Trail biking and hiking path to legal challenges by private property owners.
If Nixon's suit is successful, it stands to reason that Blunt would go to the General Assembly for approval to give the bridge away.
www.firedupmissouri.com /node/1636/print   (266 words)

  
 News Tribune
In a lawsuit filed in St. Louis city court, Jay Nixon alleged that Dey Inc. and rival Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corp. plotted to inflate reported prices for Medicaid reimbursement.
Nixon alleged that because the AWP reported by Dey and Warrick was intentionally and artificially inflated, Missouri's Medicaid program paid at least $15 million too much in provider reimbursement over a period potentially dating to 1994.
Nixon said his office's investigation found that Dey reported an AWP of $14.99 for a certain container of Albuterol Sulfate at the same time the inhalant could be bought by providers for $5.91 or less.
www.newstribune.com /articles/2005/05/12/news_state/0051205007.txt   (674 words)

  
 Cattle Today: In loving memory of Jay Nixon 1936-1999
I've known Jay Nixon for 30 years, from the time we started at the American Polled Hereford Assn., and then working together again when he started The Outfit, to just here recently on several marketing projects.
Jay has been taken away from us, this business and his friends are going to miss him, Rest in Peace Jay.
Jay Nixon was one of those writers that other writers read twice — once for sheer pleasure and a second time to see how he did it.
www.cattletoday.com /archive/1999/October/Cattle_Today41.shtml   (1967 words)

  
 Nixon pushes for renewal of tire surcharge for cleanup
Nixon made visits this week to both the burning dump sites.
Nixon stopped yesterday at a waste tire dump in western Ray County that has been burning since Monday.
On Tuesday, Nixon visited a massive tire fire in Polk County near Bolivar, where up to 1 million burning tires have filled the air with heavy smoke and the smell of burning rubber.
www.showmenews.com /2005/Mar/20050318News007.asp   (287 words)

  
 Nixon sues man over disputed porn site access charges - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed a lawsuit against a man he accused of charging Missourians for accessing pornographic Web sites they never visited.
Nixon said it appeared the charges sometimes came from auto-dialing software installed on people's computers without their knowledge.
Nixon wants the Jackson County Circuit Court to order the people wrongly charged be paid back, to block Walczak from engaging in unfair trade practices and to impose a fine of $1,000 per violation.
www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/09/27/nixon_sues_man_over_disputed_porn_site_access_charges   (221 words)

  
 Attorney General Jay Nixon will run for Governor in 2008
Nixon's campaign treasurer confirmed the Attorney General plans to run against Blunt in 2008.
Contents: "Jay Nixon's perspective is the old way, spend money you don't have, tax the public beyond their desire, and govern irresponsibly."
Nixon's campaign filed a change with the Missouri Ethics Commission saying he's running for Governor.
mdn.missouri.edu /2005/STORIES/NIXONGOV.HTM   (376 words)

  
 Nixon schedules another hearing on Health Midwest sale - 2002-12-23 - Kansas City Business Journal
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has scheduled a third public hearing on the proposed sale of Health Midwest to HCA Inc.
Nixon held hearings on the Health Midwest sale on Nov. 18 in Kansas City and Nov. 26 in Independence.
Nixon filed a Dec. 5 motion with the Cole County Circuit Court in response to Health Midwest's lawsuit against the attorney general that asked the court to approve the sale of Health Midwest to for-profit health system HCA, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., for $1.13 billion.
www.bizjournals.com /kansascity/stories/2002/12/23/daily6.html?t=printable   (297 words)

  
 In The Courts | Missouri Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over State Family Planning Funds; Separate But Related Case to Begin ...
Kinder also requested that Nixon's office pay a $7,000 fee for a legal expert who was hired by Kinder to study the case.
Nixon then appointed a special assistant attorney general, Jordan Cherrick, to represent the Legislature in arguing the state's case in support of the appropriations bill restrictions, while Nixon defended the health director's right to enter into contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates.
After a court told Nixon in January that he had a "conflict of interest" in the case because his office was defending both viewpoints, Nixon dismissed Cherrick and announced that he was dropping the case, believing that the decision would clear the way for the Planned Parenthood affiliates to receive state funding.
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=13114   (460 words)

  
 Gone Mild: Why Jay Nixon Makes Me Nauseated
Nixon asserted that the Democratic Party needs more candidates, nationally and in the state, who reflect mainstream America.
Nixon is one of those Democrats who keep me from voting the straight ticket.
Well Nixon certainly didn't need your vote and a little dissent is good for the system.
www.gonemild.com /2004/12/why-jay-nixon-makes-me-nauseated.html   (375 words)

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