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Published on June 22, 2024 - 18:28 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Responds to SCOTUS Decision Allowing the Biden Administration to Prevent Resolution of ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a statement responding to the split decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) that grants the federal government even more authority over States and halts the agreement between Texas, New …

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Published on June 20, 2024 - 18:48 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces $10.22 Million Settlement with Major Wireless Carriers Over Deceptive and Mis...

Texas reached a $10.22 million 50-jurisdiction settlement with AT&T Mobility, LLC, Cricket Wireless, LLC, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Cellco Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless, and TracFone Wireless, Inc., which resolves the state attorneys general …

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Published on June 19, 2024 - 18:44 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures $2 Million in Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Internet Company’s Deceptive Trade ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a judgment against Nomad Internet which includes $2 million in refunds to customers harmed by the company’s unlawful and deceptive trade practices. In April 2023, the Consumer Protection Division of the Office …

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Published on June 18, 2024 - 21:35 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Advises Texas Schools on the Application of Title IX After Recent Legal Victory

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an advisory to Texas schools detailing the application of Title IX in light of a recent legal victory that stopped an attempt to force radical "transgender" policies onto state schools in violation of …

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Published on June 18, 2024 - 18:22 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Notifies Over 100 Companies of their Apparent Failure to Comply with the Texas Data Broker ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued letters notifying over one hundred companies of their apparent failure to register as data brokers with the Texas Secretary of State as required by Texas’s newly enacted Data Broker Law. Chapter 509 of the …

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Published on June 17, 2024 - 21:04 GMT

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Takes Down $70 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Dr. David Young, 61, of Fredericksburg, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury for causing the submission of more than $70 million in fraudulent health care claims. Young wrote fraudulent prescriptions for …

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Published on June 14, 2024 - 21:49 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads 19-State Coalition Challenging the Federal Government for Overstepping Authority ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 19 states to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) decision to adopt rules that would force the Biden Administration’s costly and inefficient “green energy” transition onto …

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Published on June 14, 2024 - 21:01 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Stay from Texas Supreme Court Stopping Harris County’s Unlawful “Guaranteed Income” ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has obtained a stay from the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) stopping an unlawful “guaranteed income” scheme by Harris County called “Uplift Harris” that violates the Texas Constitution. In April 2024, Attorney General …

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Published on June 14, 2024 - 20:13 GMT

Texas Supreme Court Grants Review of Politically Motivated Lawfare Against OAG Leadership

The Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) has granted review of the lower court decision that has permitted politically motivated lawfare by the State Bar of Texas against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster to continue. Following the 2020 …

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Published on June 14, 2024 - 17:43 GMT

Deputy First Assistant Attorney General Grant Dorfman Departs Texas Attorney General’s Office and Receives Judicial ...

Judge Grant Dorfman, who served as the Deputy First Assistant Attorney General since December 2020, left the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) after more than three years of dedicated service. He has been nominated by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as …

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Published on June 12, 2024 - 20:05 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Injunction Stopping the Biden Administration’s Unlawful Attempt to Ban Private ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured an injunction halting a new rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) of the U.S. Department of Justice that unlawfully sought to abridge Americans’ constitutional right to …

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Published on June 11, 2024 - 20:28 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Win Blocking Biden Administration’s Attempt to Force “Transgender” Policies ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a major victory against the Biden Administration’s Department of Education (“DOE”), stopping its attempt to rewrite Title IX to force Texas schools to adopt radical “transgender” policies in violation of state and …

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Published on June 11, 2024 - 20:28 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Department of Labor to Prevent Attempt to Grant Foreign Laborers More Rights than ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of state attorneys general have sued the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (“DOL”) over a new regulation that aims to override longstanding federal law and give foreign nationals working in …

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Published on June 11, 2024 - 17:59 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads Multistate Coalition Reaching Landmark $700 Million Settlement Against Johnson & ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 42 other attorneys general reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. Texas, …

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Published on June 11, 2024 - 14:18 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services to Stop Rule Forcing Healthcare Providers ...

Texas and Montana have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and other members of the Biden Administration for adopting a new rule that forces states to pay for “gender transition” procedures through …

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Published on June 7, 2024 - 01:09 GMT

Statement from Attorney General Ken Paxton on Border Litigation Against Biden Administration

Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement after today’s argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas’s concertina wire lawsuit against the federal government. “Today, Texas made an outstanding case for our …

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Published on June 6, 2024 - 19:00 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Reminds Governmental Entities that Personally Identifiable Information on Ballots ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released a legal ruling in response to a request for records under the Public Information Act reiterating that governmental entities have a legal duty to redact any personally identifying information on voters’ ballots …

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Published on June 6, 2024 - 16:22 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Opens Investigation into Car Manufacturers’ Collection and Sale of Drivers’ Data

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into several car manufacturers after widespread reporting that they have secretly been collecting mass amounts of data about drivers directly from their vehicles and then selling that data to …

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Published on June 4, 2024 - 17:27 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Successfully Stops Unlawful Attempt By The Biden IRS To Impair Texas Child Support Programs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ended a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) after the agency walked back its planned enforcement of an unlawful policy change that would have drastically interfered with the …

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Published on June 4, 2024 - 15:38 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Department of Labor for Attempting to Revive Illegal Obama-Era Mandate

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") to stop a final rule issued by the agency that violates the law and attempts to usurp authority not granted by Congress. Further, courts have already ruled …

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