AUSTIN – Trying to use a previously hired lawyer to bring new litigation on behalf of a Texas local government still requires approval from the Texas Attorney General’s Office, AG Ken Paxton opined yesterday.
HOUSTON – A Valentine’s Day trial has been slated for a man claiming that asking an H-E-B employee to put on a face mask led to a “violent physical assault.”
The news over the past few years has offered little to cheer about, but a recent story reporting an unprecedented 43 percent decline in membership in the Boy Scouts of America from 2019 to 2020—from 1.97 million Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to 1.12 million—was especially dispiriting.
AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a historic $26 billion agreement that will bring desperately needed relief to Texans who are struggling with opioid addiction. The agreement includes Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – and Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured and marketed opioids. The agreement also requires significant industry changes that will help prevent this type of crisis from ever happening again.
HOUSTON – The 14th Court of Appeals recently wiped an award of attorney’s fees to Lamar Texas LP in a lawsuit brought over an attorney’s alleged unpaid billboard advertisements.
AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier, who stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google, has donated $25,000 to Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaign finance records show.
HOUSTON – Today, the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed that Fort Bend County has governmental immunity from lawsuit brought by man who claims he slipped and fell while he was an inmate.
AUSTIN - Determining residency for purposes of the Election Code involves consideration of both a person’s physical presence and current intention to reside in a particular location, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton.
HOUSTON – It’s not a nepotism issue for Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee’s father-in-law to keep providing collection services for the county, according to an opinion issued by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate coalition demanding protection of students from the Biden Administration’s unlawful expansion of the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, GA.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton applauds a recent Supreme Court of Texas ruling that Facebook can be held liable for the actions of sex traffickers who use its platform to recruit and prey on children.
The following cases categorized as "injury or damage - motor vehicle" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on June 28. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a 23-state amicus brief, urging the United States Supreme Court to reverse the disturbing decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that barred the Kentucky Attorney General from defending a state law that prohibits the gruesome abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, which involves dismembering an unborn child in the womb, while still alive.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is applauding the Texas Supreme Court's decision to protect Academy Sports and Outdoors from liability in the devastating Sutherland Springs church shooting in 2017.
AUSTIN – There may be some good news for Texas attorneys who no longer wish to fund the state Bar’s ideological agenda, as a challenge to mandatory Oklahoma Bar dues has been reinstated.
