"The filing of endless litigation in an effort to obstruct the will of the people of Texas is what we have come to expect from Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama," Mr. Perry said.
The documents, filed as part of litigation relating to business disputes at the company, say that when Mr. Gordon could not pay his partners back, they removed him.
As part of a flood of litigation filed ahead of a court deadline on Saturday, Mr. Picard filed a complaint seeking $905 million from Frank Avellino and Michael Bienes, accountants who set up the first informal feeder fund for Madoff investors as early as the 1980s.
The Act's proposal would narrow the venue to logical venues where the owner resides with little room for "venue-shopping" in advance of filing litigation suits.
Later that afternoon, Harcourt filed yet another piece of litigation on Hamm's behalf, focussing on the challenge of obtaining "central venous access".
The civil complaint against Ms. Kohn was part of a fusillade of litigation filed in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan during the last month by Irving H. Picard, the trustee trying to recover assets for victims who sustained cash losses in the fraud.
The hearing marked another step in a battle that has been waged for more than a year — first over school closings, the subject of litigation filed in February 2010, and now over both the closing and the opening and expansion of charter schools.
Lawyers will recognize this as a "qui tam" procedure, of the sort that has led to a growing body of litigation filed by freelance bounty hunters against universities, defense contractors and others alleged to have overcharged the government.
Judith has worked tirelessly to protect survivors of Hurricane Katrina, filing critical litigation on behalf of displaced survivors and working to stop the exploitation of immigrant reconstruction workers.
It is common in class-action suits for lawyers to make broad accusations when first filing and in the course of litigation to try to develop supportive information.
