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10 Mar 2021, 2:12 pm
Twitter launched a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday, alleging he “abused his authority as the highest law-enforcement officer in the state” by unconstitutionally retaliating against the social media site for its decision to permanently ban former president Donald Trump from its platform following the January insurrection in Washington, DC. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 4:31 am
.The Attorney General does not violate any law in doing so. [read post]
26 Feb 2023, 10:22 am
In August 2022, numerous abortion funds, pro-choice groups and non-profit organizations brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 6:22 am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas asking the court to invalidate the DOL’s expansion of the definition of “spouse” for purposes of the FMLA to include same-sex spouses when the marriage has been performed in a state that recognizes same-sex marriages. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 12:35 pm
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has signed onto an amicus brief aimed at the US Supreme Court to argue that carrying a firearm in a state where that's legal does not justify a "Terry frisk" based on officer safety. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 4:10 am
In a press release yesterday, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced that he has requested a formal opinion from state attorney general Ken Paxton on the constitutionality of a volunteer Justice Court Chaplaincy Program created by Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
In a press release announcing the filling, the Attorney General's office said in part:Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Annunciation House, a nongovernmental organization (“NGO”), to revoke their registration to operate in Texas. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 5:11 am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday sued Biden-appointed officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop an executive action pausing deportations for 100 days. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 2:22 am
Texas Governor Greg Abbott released an executive order banning all “non-essential and elective” surgeries to preserve medical supplies to fight COVID-19 on Sunday evening, and Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an order on Monday declaring that abortions fell under the ban, excluding abortions performed to preserve the life of the mother. [read post]
15 May 2022, 1:49 pm
On February 18, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion stating that many forms of gender affirming care “can legally constitute child abuse” under Texas law. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 6:49 pm
Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted the complaint claiming that Planned Parenthood improperly avoided reimbursement of Medicaid funding after it was terminated from the program. [read post]
31 Oct 2023, 9:20 am
The suit was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 9:55 am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking reinstatement of a Trump-era public charge inadmissability rule. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 1:44 pm
Abbott acted after Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a Feb. 18 opinion saying treatment such as puberty-suppressing drugs, hormones and sterilization can constitute child abuse. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 9:05 pm
After a push from (among others) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, one elaborate scheme using dummy litigants and deceptively staged court orders to get Google to de-index some articles appears to have been knocked offline. [read post]
27 Mar 2021, 11:27 am
A Texas district judge denied the Texas attorney general’s request for a temporary injunction against the city of Austin’s mask mandate on Friday. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 12:24 pm
Multistate Google Adtech Litigation Continues: A coalition of seventeen states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sued Google in December 2020 alleging antitrust and deceptive trade practice violations over the dominant role Google plays in the adtech market. [read post]
6 May 2020, 2:38 pm
Ken Paxton's 'lonely and misguided crusade' against Rosa JimenezAttorney General Ken Paxton won't drop his federal appeal in Rosa Jimenez's habeas corpus writ, even though DA Margaret Moore has finally, belatedly, acknowledged that the evidence used to convict her was flawed and she deserves a new trial. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 2:02 pm
In an amicus brief filed yesterday, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and R Street, urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to take the case “en banc” and protect Twitter from a retaliatory investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 9:38 am
Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to reporters in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2022. [read post]
