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AUSTIN - The Harris Health System, previously known as the Harris County Hospital District, has submitted a contingent contract to the Office of the Attorney General for approval in order to pursue e-cigarette and vaping litigation.
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AUSTIN - A court would likely conclude that the common-law incompatibility doctrine does not bar a Nueces County commissioner from simultaneously serving as the general manager of the South Texas Water Authority, states an opinion released by Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday.
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HOUSTON – Former Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack has voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit he filed against Harris County Commissioners Court alleging Commissioners Court violated the Open Meetings Act during county redistricting.
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HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee, along with the Attorney General of Texas, resolved an environmental enforcement action against Sesco Cement, Corp. for violations of state environmental laws at a cement packaging and distribution facility in East Harris County, a press release states.
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HOUSTON — Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee advocated for residents and voiced concerns about Texas's noncompliance with ozone standards at a virtual public hearing with the Environmental Protection Agency regarding Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), a press release states.
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HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee has announced Joseph D. Lawson as the new Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library, a press release states.
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HOUSTON – The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee (HCAO) announces the launch of its first annual Summer Legal Academy (SLA), a legal training and educational program designed to expose high school students to the path to becoming an attorney, a press release states.
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MCKINNEY – Attorney General Paxton successfully secured $1.167 billion for Texas out of the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, a press release states.
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HOUSTON — On Friday, a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Longoria v. Paxton, a lawsuit in which Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other officials over the provision in Texas’s new voting law (SB1) that make it a crime for public officials or election officials to solicit people to apply to vote by mail, a press release states.
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AUSTIN - A county does not have the authority to place a sign in a state highway right-of-way without approval of the Texas Department of Transportation or an agreement with the Texas Transportation Commission, Attorney General Ken Paxton opined yesterday.
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HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee today announced a new database that—for the first time in the County’s history—will organize and catalogue Commissioners Court orders and County policies and make those records readily viewable to the public, a press release states.
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HOUSTON – At a special meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, the Court voted to direct Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee to negotiate a temporary stay of the county’s lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) over the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP).
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AUSTIN - A trial judge cannot refuse a surety’s affidavit to surrender a principal, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opined today.
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HOUSTON – Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas denied a petition for mandamus filed by Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in Harris County’s lawsuit challenging the governor’s ban on mask mandates, allowing Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria to keep in place a policy stating election workers must wear masks in polling places during early voting.
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HOUSTON — Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee and dozens of District Attorneys and former Attorneys General, U.S. Attorneys, and law enforcement leaders across the country filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday opposing the Texas abortion law.
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HOUSTON – Many Texas politicians are up in arms over Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting vaccine mandates by any entity. However, one Houston attorney says the order isn’t exactly stopping businesses from requiring the jab.
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HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee sent the Office of the Texas Secretary of State a demand for documents under the Texas Public Information Act regarding the SOS’s purported “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election in certain counties, including Harris County.
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AUSTIN – Texans are free from local government mandates requiring face coverings and any official denying that immunity may be in violation of the Penal Code, Attorney General Ken Paxton recently opined.
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HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee, who has sued the Texas governor and attorney general over the ban on mask mandates, addressed Ken Paxton's statements that neither he nor Greg Abbott can enforce the prohibition of mask mandates (GA-38), a press release states.
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HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee earned another victory for Harris County in its lawsuit challenging Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s prohibition on mask mandates.
