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AG Paxton: San Antonio agrees to deliver records over city’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A from airport
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton recently announced that his office reached an agreement with the City of San Antonio regarding an April 11 open records request for documents related to the City’s decision to exclude Chick-fil-A from the San Antonio International Airport based on the restaurant chain’s donations to religious ministries. -
Former Office of Attorney General worker fails to prove she was victim of retaliation
BEAUMONT -- A lower court did not err when it granted the Office of the Attorney General a plea to the jurisdiction in a human rights claim against it, the Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas determined Aug. 8 as it affirmed the ruling. -
Texas AG Office makes Hidalgo County release settlement records on construction defect suit, congressman entitled to a cut
McALLEN – The Texas Attorney General’s Office recently ruled that Hidalgo County must release a settlement agreement on a construction defect lawsuit. -
AG Paxton Announces Historic $600 Million Data Breach Settlement with Equifax
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that a coalition of 50 attorneys general reached the largest data breach settlement in history with Equifax, resolving an investigation into a massive data breach first disclosed by the company in September 2017. -
Texas AG announces $600M data breach settlement with Equifax
AUSTIN – On July 22 Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that a coalition of 50 attorneys general reached the largest data breach settlement in history with Equifax, resolving an investigation into a massive data breach first disclosed by the company in September 2017. -
TEXAS OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL: AG Paxton Tells Fifth Circuit Obamacare is (Still) Unconstitutional; Encourages Real Reform and Experimentation to Address Health Care Access
Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of 18 states, Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urging that court to uphold a U.S. district court’s ruling declaring Obamacare unconstitutional in its entirety. During arguments. -
New state bar president ‘withdraws’ question
Lawyers are taught not to ask questions in court that they don’t know the answer to, lest they get an unexpected answer: one that blows the case they were making, pro or con, to smithereens. -
Dropped: AG opinion request over Texas Bar dues, election process
HOUSTON – By remaining silent, Randy Sorrels, the new president of the State Bar of Texas, declined to continue an opinion request made by his predecessor, which tasked the attorney general to answer whether the collection of mandatory dues is constitutional. -
Re-Imagining Legal Education
Why shouldn’t law schools be run as trade schools? -
Paxton co-leads 27 attorneys general effort to protect against potential class-action abuse in opioid MDL
AUSTIN – In a June 24 letter he co-authored with California from a bipartisan group of 27 states and territories, Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a U.S. District Court judge presiding over all the federal cases involving opioid lawsuits to delay a ruling that could potentially result in class-action abuse and confusion regarding a proposed novel settlement structure. -
AG Paxton applauds SCOTUS decision protecting cross at veterans memorial
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a cross may continue to mark a World War I veterans memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland -
Storm unleashed over Dallas district attorney announcement continues
Dallas County District Attorney John Cruezet has faced strong push back, and even calls for his resignation, following his bombshell announcement last month that he would decline certain offences. -
Texas opioid MDL: proposed attorney fee protocol would delay release of billing records
HOUSTON – A status hearing is slated in the state opioid multidistrict litigation court on Friday, during which a proposed plaintiff attorney fee protocol will be considered – a proposal that, if adopted, would delay the release of billing records. -
Paxton tells education commissioner that civil remedies still exist for violations of Texas Open Meetings Act
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in a recent response to an inquiry from Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath regarding the state's Open Meetings Act, said a governmental body is in violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA) if it “deliberates about public business within the jurisdiction of the body outside of a meeting authorized by the (TOMA) through multiple communications each involving fewer than a quorum.” -
Texas AG sues for access to public records on San Antonio’s ‘discriminatory exclusion’ of Chick-fil-A from its airport
AUSTIN – On Monday, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a petition in Travis County District Court against the City of San Antonio as part of his office’s investigation into the city’s exclusion of Chick-fil-A from an airport concession contract. -
Attorney general: Municipalities can't regulate firearm, ammunition transactions through zoning
AUSTIN – Texas municipalities do not have the authority to regulate firearm and ammunition sales through zoning and other regulations, Attorney General Ken Paxon said in an opinion issued May 24. -
Brooks County hires its own county attorney for opioid suit, law prohibits paying fees to salaried officers
SOUTH TEXAS – David Garcia, the county attorney for Brooks County, signed a contingency fee agreement with his employer to represent the county in an opioid lawsuit – a relationship that seemingly comes into conflict with the Texas Local Government Code. -
TEXAS OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL: AG Paxton: HHS Proposes Rule that Would Protect Healthcare Conscience Rights, and Undo Unlawful Obamacare Rule that Texas Successfully Challenged
Trump administration opened the public comment period on its potential repeal of an unlawful Obama-era health care regulation that redefined sex discrimination to include gender identity and abortion. -
Texas Bar launches counterattack in legal fight to stop collection of mandatory dues
AUSTIN - The State Bar of Texas has launched an all-out offensive, firing a barrage of filings yesterday in hopes of killing a lawsuit brought by three attorneys who contend paying mandatory dues violates their First Amendment rights. -
AG Paxton’s Office files suit against operator of crowdfunding scheme
AUSTIN – On May 5, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the Consumer Protection Division of his office filed a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction preventing Douglas W. Monahan and his company, iBackPack of Texas, LLC, from participating in deceptive crowdfunding schemes in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act.