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5 Aug 2013, 10:16 am
Here it is: Texas Attorney General -- and gubernatorial candidate -- Greg Abbott sat down with the Texas Tribune last week for a candid conversation about his personal injury settlement stemming from the tragic 1984 accident that left him a paraplegic. [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 5:52 am by Editor Charlie
Billboard: Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has submitted a letter of opposition to the Dept. of Justice regarding its recent decision to change how performance rights organizations (PROs) are required to treat the licensing of some songs with multiple authors. via @marcps: Texas Governor Greg Abbott to Attorney General Loretta Lynch: Don’t Mess With Song Licensing — Artist Rights Watch [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 8:18 pm by Adam Kielich
Last Wednesday the state’s newspapers (including our own Fort Worth Star Telegram) reported on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s appellate brief before the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Texas ban on gay marriage. [read post]
13 Sep 2014, 9:19 am by John Floyd
Many Texans have now seen Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s ad about his herculean effort to re-build his strength following an accident in 1984 that left him permanently… read more → [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 2:58 pm by Editor Charlie
Texas Governor Greg Abbott calls on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to reconsider DOJ’s position on 100% licensing. via @govabbott: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Urges U.S. [read post]
28 Jul 2013, 8:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott is singing a tired tune on border security, pretending that it's possible to finance a massive border security expansion based on asset forfeiture funds. [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 4:14 pm
In a news release on October 11, 2007, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott proposed a series of foreclosure prevention measures to three of the largest mortgage lending and loan servicing companies - Countrywide Mortgage, Litton Loan Servicing (which is based in Houston) and Dallas-based EMC Mortgage. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 10:03 am by Tom Smith
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, romped to victory over Democratic state Sen. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 7:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Strangely, given that he has no role in criminal cases unless he's invited by local prosecutors (unless you consider his motives political, in which case it's not strange at all), Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott sought to have the CCA re-hear the case. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 4:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
After Attorney General Greg Abbott asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to grant re-hearing on their 9-0 decision to invalidate Texas online solicitation of a minor statute as unconstitutional, the CCA today in another unanimous ruling not only told him "no" but expressly limited his authority, striking down a 2011 statute on which he based his post hoc intervention. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 1:51 pm by John Floyd
Abbott would prefer that this “right to bail” be reserved for people like his political accomplice and indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 5:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"However, "Between 2003 and 2008, when the requests to the attorney general spiked, the staffing levels of the office issuing the opinions stayed relatively flat, said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for Attorney General Greg Abbott. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 4:18 pm by Susan I. Nelson
Dallas Morning News Theodore Kim reports "Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's decision to support Arizona in a battle with the federal government over immigration runs counter to beliefs he expressed years ago, Democratic opponent Barbara Ann Radnofsky has alleged. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 11:15 am
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a $28 million civil settlement with Abbott Laboratories Inc.The settlement resolves the state's claims that the drug manufacturer falsely reported drug prices to the state and federal Medicaid programs. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 10:26 am by slemberg
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit against third-party debt collector First Integral Recovery for alleged violations of the state’s Finance Code. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 9:00 am by Adam Faderewski
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and served as counsel to the attorney general of the Department of Justice. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 10:26 am by Howard Bashman
” Guzman resigned in June 2021 to run for Attorney General of Texas. [read post]
31 May 2007, 10:18 am
Good news: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is standing down, for now, on the demand that Google turn over information that could help Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald identify anonymous dissidents on his staff who want to start a labor union. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Paxton is known to spend his days picking random fights on Twitter with transgender adults—people who have no connection to him personally, to the State of Texas, or to his work as the state’s attorney general. [read post]