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8 Jul 2016, 7:53 am by LaJuana Davis
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]
16 Nov 2020, 10:00 am by Ana Popovich
Four whistleblowers filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a November 13 article from The Texas Tribune. [read post]
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]
27 Jan 2015, 11:36 am by Addison Morris
[JURIST] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official website] announced [press release] on Monday that both Nevada and Tennessee have joined the state-led coalition in its suit against the Obama administration [official website] over November's executive action [text] on immigration. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Thursday sued Google for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 12:20 pm by Ana Popovich
A former senior official who worked at the Texas attorney general’s office said that a second whistleblower has been fired after reporting Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, to law enforcement “for crimes including bribery and abuse of office,” according to an October 22 article from The Texas Tribune The official who reported the whistleblower’s firing wants to remain anonymous… [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 5:44 pm by Howard Bashman
“Disbar Ken Paxton — And Then Some: The Texas Attorney General’s ridiculous, malevolent suit to throw out the ballots in four other states makes him more than a Trump stooge; He’s a legal menace. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 10:14 am by Eric Fruits & Geoffrey Manne
Having just comfortably secured re-election to a third term, embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is likely to want to change the subject from investigations of his own conduct to a topic where he feels on much firmer ground: the 16-state lawsuit he currently leads accusing Google of monopolizing a segment of the digital advertising business. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 5:08 am by Thomas J. Crane
So, it is perhaps not surprising that some 150 Texas lawyers have threatened to file a complaint about the Texas Attorney General. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 7:29 am by Keegan Boyle
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas will be leading the bipartisan investigation, which will focus on Google’s monopoly of online advertising markets. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 8:02 am by Ana Popovich
Two senior staff members who worked for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office have been fired, according to a November 2 article from The Texas Tribune. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 1:16 pm by Akira Tomlinson
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official website], who is confident the court will rule for the state, said [press release], "Texas values the dignity of the remains of the unborn and believes that fetal tissue should be... [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 11:08 am by Howard Wasserman
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a non-binding opinion letter about implementation of Obergefell. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 4:54 am by Thomas J. Crane
Not a Public Employee On appeal, the Office of Attorney General argued that as Attorney General, Mr. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint with the US Supreme Court Tuesday against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn their 2020 presidential election results. [read post]
In August 2022, numerous abortion funds, pro-choice groups and non-profit organizations brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 11:39 am by Patrick Sherry
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]
24 Nov 2019, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the District Court of Tarrant County in support of a nine-month-old baby girl after Cooks Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas denied the baby’s mother’s request to continue life-sustaining treatment for her.Texas law currently allows a hospital’s “ethics” committee to vote to remove life-sustaining treatment against a… [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 5:27 pm by Howard Bashman
” Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial that begins, “Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, seems intent on developing a name for himself as the patron saint of lost legal causes. [read post]