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13 Oct 2016, 5:00 am
Nelson, J.D.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may have won a reprieve last week in the SEC’s federal securities fraud case against him, but he appears to have run out of luck in his effort to get the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to hear his pretrial habeas claims about the state case against him. [read post]
8 Oct 2016, 9:56 am
Mazzant III on Friday conditionally dismissed [opinion] the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) [official website] suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official websites]. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 12:18 pm
According to news reports, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton points to the significant burdens on both private businesses as well as state and local governments that will result from the new overtime rule as reasons behind the lawsuit. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 9:44 am
The Ethics Commission is unsure if Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office will defend the agency in future litigation, according to the commission’s appropriations request. [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 4:03 am
That Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is cheating by making lawful, ethical and smart legal choices. [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]
25 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm
District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction in response to a lawsuit brought by eleven states, blocking the guidance because the federal government failed to fulfill the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act and because the guidance is not a legal directive under Title IX—a decision hailed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who called the guidance an “illegal federal overreach,” but criticized… [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 4:05 am
They eagerly provide comprehensive care to society’s most vulnerable populations, but their religious beliefs will not allow them to perform medical transition procedures that can be deeply harmful to their patients.....Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit, and saying in part:This is the thirteenth lawsuit I have been forced to bring against the Obama Administration’s continued threats on constitutional rights of… [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 4:10 am
Aside from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, there’s little support for using a seven-prong test divined from a fiction book as a clinical standard for execution. [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 4:15 am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday issued Attorney General Opinion No. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 4:51 pm
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued an opinion today that the First Amendment's Establishment Clause is not violated if court were opened with a prayer. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 4:10 am
Texas Tribune reports that in an Aug. 3 notice, the State Bar of Texas announced that it is dismissing an ethics complaint signed by over 200 Texas lawyers claiming that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "violated his own official oath of office" last summer when he issued an Opinion and statement on the right of public officials to assert religious objections to issuing marriage licenses or performing same-sex marriages. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 10:01 pm
Dan Flynn has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton if an apparent crackdown on raw milk couriers by the Texas Department of State Health Services and city health departments is legal. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 6:57 am
David Goodman for New York Times Texas: “Ken Paxton’s ‘Family Friends’ Help Foot Legal Bill, Disclosure Shows” by Jim Malewitz for Texas Tribune Utah: “Are Utah Taxpayers Footing Bill for Land-Transfer Lawyers’ Lavish Travel? [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 7:53 am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking a nationwide preliminary injunction to stop the enforcement of the Department of Education's Dear Colleague letter to schools directing them not to discriminate against transgender students, particularly in students' choice of bathrooms. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
The decision was praised by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a move in support of the “sanctity of attorney-client confidentiality. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
While the decision was hailed as a victory for “those who believe in the separation of powers” by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, President Obama spoke critically of the decision, calling it “frustrating for those who seek to grow our economy and bring a rationality into our immigration system. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 12:37 pm
The same Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas who spearheaded this hateful lawsuit (and filed it in a district where he knew the judge was anti-immigrant) also filed to block the resettlementof Syrian refugees. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 6:06 am
[Corporate Counsel] * Texas AG Ken Paxton's still gonna have to face those criminal fraud charges. [read post]
27 May 2016, 6:02 pm
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton boasted on Wednesday that 10 states have joined the Lone Star State in challenging President Barack Obama’s directive that transgender students be allowedThe post Transgender-Bathroom Hysteria Is the Distraction of the Month appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
