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27 Aug 2018, 6:33 am
In case you missed it, five states that had sued the previous administration over an illicit tax have finally been vindicated, to the tune of almost a billion dollars:"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [led] a five-state coalition that on Thursday won an $839 million judgment against the federal government ... joined by Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, and Louisiana"The states had sued because even though ObamaCare explicitly exempted states from this tax, his administration… [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 3:55 pm
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton characterized the allegations in this latest settlement as “especially disturbing because the well-being of children and the integrity of the state hospital system were jeopardized. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm
In case you missed the in-depth coverage of Employment Law Daily for July, here’s a recap of some key developments in the L&E community. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 9:55 am
Nearly a year after being urged to do so by a 17-state coalition of Attorneys General led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Department of Labor has rescinded the so-called 2016 “persuader rule. [read post]
23 Jun 2018, 3:39 pm
See this summary of the analysis compiled by The Open File.Paxton sides against local GOP judges in bail litigationPositioning himself opposite the Republican judges who've spent more than $6 million fighting bail reform in Harris County, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to have lawsuits dismissed which were filed by Harris County magistrates against the State Commission on Judicial Conduct after that agency had sanctioned them. [read post]
24 May 2018, 3:19 pm
The reference is to Attorney General Ken Paxton joining a lawsuit against opiod manufacturers. [read post]
16 May 2018, 12:46 pm
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses [press release]... [read post]
12 May 2018, 7:07 am
"AG pitch on revenge porn a PR moveMark Bennett has written how some folks simply can't believe the US Supreme Court meant what it's said in rulings about protected speech, and apparently Attorney General Ken Paxton is one of them. [read post]
4 May 2018, 10:30 am
In February of this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimmel, lead a 20-state coalition in a federal lawsuit[3] against defendants, HHS and the IRS, to invalidate ACA on constitutional grounds since, beginning next year, the individual mandate will no longer serve as a mechanism to raise tax revenues. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 12:14 pm
The Houston Chronicle reported on April 2, 2018 that Texas’s current attorney general, Ken Paxton, has made a request to U.S. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 8:15 am
Earlier this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a new voter fraud initiative. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 8:15 am
Earlier this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a new voter fraud initiative. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 11:39 am
A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official profile], filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is now unconstitutional after the passing of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 [statutes, PDF] removed the tax penalty present in the ACA. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 2:30 pm
A new comprehensive training video introduced by Attorney General Ken Paxton aims to educate Texans about and combat against human trafficking. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 11:49 am
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]
25 Jan 2018, 1:51 pm
The article is part of the Regulatory Review's symposium on "Regulation in the Trump Administration's First Year," which also includes contributions by Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin, Texas AG Ken Paxton, and law professors Dan Farber (UC Berkeley), Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania), Richard Pierce (George Washington) and Mark Nevitt (Penn). [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 9:30 pm
What A Difference A Year Makes January 23, 2018 | Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas In the two years that my term as Texas Attorney General overlapped with the Obama presidency, I sued his Administration 22 times to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, preserve states’ rights, and stop it from bypassing Congress. [read post]
31 Dec 2017, 5:12 pm
TAGS: amicus-curiae, CFPB, federal-enforcement-actions, National-Collegiate-Student-Loan-Trusts, private-student-loans, SLABs, Transworld-System-Inc – posted on 11/30/17Friend of the Court from Texas: Ken Paxton's bid to join the fight over CFPB leadership temporarily rebuffed. [read post]
31 Dec 2017, 5:12 pm
CFPB, federal-enforcement-actions, National-Collegiate-Student-Loan-Trusts, statute-of-limitations, Transworld-System-Inc – posted 10/6/17CFPB: The Toxic Vegetable in the Beltway Alphabet Soup National-Collegiate-Student-Loan-Trusts, private-student-loans - 10/5/17CFPB Payday Loan Rule Issued (10/5/2017) CFPB, federal-regulation, payday-loans-and-lenders – posted 10/5/17Interim Final Rule re Mortgage Servicer Communications with Borrowers at risk of foreclosure -Posted 10/5/17Collecting… [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 5:48 am
[Texas Lawyer] * Solicitor General Francisco and Texas AG Ken "Facing Felony Charges This Month" Paxton are hoping to cover up their own docket management incompetence by asking for sanctions against the ACLU. [read post]
