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11 Dec 2020, 9:37 am by Jonathan H. Adler
[Roll credits] Post-credits scene: The Austin-American Statesman reports: Federal agents served at least one subpoena Wednesday on the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in an ongoing investigation into allegations that Paxton abused his authority by helping a friend and campaign donor. . . . [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 8:29 am by Scott Bomboy
 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had threated to amend that lawsuit to include the 2012 DACA program. [read post]
” The court did this after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the court in response to the TRO. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 11:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
AND MORE: Check out the Texas snapshot from a 50-state debtors-prison reform tool created by the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School.De-funding Paxton special prosecutors may impact indigent defenseA Texas Observer report on the Court of Criminal Appeals decision in on payment of Attorney General Ken Paxton's prosecutors raised the same issue about indigent defense as did this Grits post.8-year sentence for improper voting upheldThe Second Court of… [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 1:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Fair Defense Project, ACLU of Texas, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Governor Greg Abbott over his executive order (GA-13) related to pretrial jail releases in response  to the coronavirus, as well as Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has vowed to aggressively enforce it. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 7:00 am
In fact, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a chief architect of the litigation, admitted that he hadn’t spoken with any transgender students or their families before bringing the case. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 12:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The dynamics surrounding this case imply a lot of backroom drama, even if there's not much paperwork to document it.Paxton prosecutor legal-fee decision may impact indigent-defense casesThe case over legal fees for special prosecutors in the Ken Paxton indictments perhaps predictably was decided based on political rather than legal considerations, with significant unintended consequences potentially resulting. [read post]
24 May 2018, 3:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The reference is to Attorney General Ken Paxton joining a lawsuit against opiod manufacturers. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 6:21 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court limits federal law requiring enhanced sentences for repeat offenders (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Indiana Supreme Court Finally Puts an End to the Timbs Asset Forfeiture Case — “Reminiscent of Captain Ahab’s Chase of the White Whale Moby Dick” (Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy) Texas AG Ken… [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 7:30 am by Don Cruse
San Jacinto River Authority and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas (No. 18-0989) Homer Hillis v. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 11:49 am by Walter Olson
I’ve got a write-up at Cato at Liberty noting the parallels with Model Rule 8.4 (g), adopted by the ABA in 2016, which makes a vaguely defined category of discriminatory conduct, including speech, the subject of discipline as “professional misconduct,” and which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warns would be unconstitutional if adopted into state regulation. [read post]
Later, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a statement declaring that the order applied to all types of abortions. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 7:22 am by Keegan Boyle
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton disagreed with the ruling, stating that the mail-in rule should be based upon a diagnosed disability. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 6:27 am by James Romoser
Supreme Court refuses to hear Ken Paxton’s challenge to California law banning state-funded travel to Texas (Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune) The post The morning read for Tuesday, April 27 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 6:24 am by Jim Sedor
Kay Ivey” by Paul Gattis for AL.com Texas: “Texas AG Ken Paxton Faces New Investigation Under Bribery Statute over $100K Gift” by Lauren McGaughy for Dallas News [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:50 am by Tom Smith
 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Aylo Global Entertainment Inc. and Aylo USA Inc. [read post]
16 May 2022, 10:06 am by Jon Brodkin
But the law was reinstated last week by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's motion to stay the preliminary injunction. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 1:41 pm by Kate Cox
The investigation is being led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said last month that the probe would first focus on the company's advertising business, which continues to dominate the online advertising sector. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 7:57 am by Don Cruse
GLENN HEGAR, COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND KEN PAXTON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, No. 14-0743 oil and gas Chosen for future argument by order issued January 22, 2016 CROSSTEX NORTH TEXAS PIPELINE, L.P., N/K/A ENLINK NORTH TEXAS PIPELINE, LP v. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 8:12 am by Staff Writer
”   Ken Paxton agreed with those sentiments, telling Fox & Friends, “I think our laws in Texas need to be stricter for this. [read post]