News & Events

December 20, 2018 - State attorneys general from Maine to South Carolina joined a lawsuit filed by conservationists seeking to block the Trump administration from allowing seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean that could harm marine mammals and lead to drilling off the Eastern Seaboard for the first time in decades. New York State Attorney Barbara D....

December 10, 2018 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a bipartisan coalition of 43 state attorneys general urging the Social Security Administration to comply with a new provision of federal law intended to protect Americans from the growing problem of synthetic identity theft. Such fraud occurs when criminals use real Social Security numbers...

December 7, 2018 - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has joined a group of attorneys general to fight robocalls. The bipartisan group is comprised of 40 state attorneys generals. Their goal is to stop or reduce annoying and harmful robocalls. The group is reviewing the technology that major telecom companies are pursuing to combat illegal robocalls....

November 28, 2018 - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress should not pass a relatively weak online privacy bill to protect consumer data and use it to take precedence over a new California law. Big tech companies are pushing for a federal bill to preempt California’s law, which Governor Jerry Brown signed...

November 19, 2018 - Five people are interested in succeeding Janet Mills as Maine's attorney general now that she's been elected governor. Lawmakers are expected to pick the new attorney general on Dec. 5. They'll also fill treasurer and secretary of state posts. The five candidates for attorney general are Mike Carpenter, himself a former attorney...

November 15, 2018 - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Wednesday that he won’t challenge Gov. John Bel Edwards in next year’s governor’s race, choosing instead to run for re-election as the state’s chief legal officer after significantly raising the profile of the job. The Republican attorney general ended speculation about his 2019 election plans...

November 13, 2018 - Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that state Treasurer Eric Schmitt would become Missouri attorney general when current Attorney General Josh Hawley resigns in January to become a U.S. senator. Schmitt, a Republican, earned his law degree from the St. Louis University School of Law in 2000. He served two terms in the state Senate...

November 5, 2018 - Indiana’s attorney general and a federal prosecutor in Kentucky have reached a nearly $5.2 million settlement with two dental firms accused of Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Curtis Hill announced the settlement Monday with U.S. Attorney Russell M. Coleman of the Western District of Kentucky. The settlement resolves claims that...

October 31, 2018 - The sales tax lawsuit that brought South Dakota all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court has been settled, Gov. Dennis Daugaard's office said Wednesday. South Dakota v. Wayfair pitted the state against three major online retailers who challenged South Dakota's sales tax on e-retailers. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of...