Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Takes Down $70 Mil­lion Health Care Fraud Scheme

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Dr. David Young, 61, of Fredericksburg, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury for causing the submission of more than $70 million in fraudulent health care claims.

June 17, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Leads 19-State Coali­tion Chal­leng­ing the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment for Over­step­ping Author­i­ty and Forc­ing Cost­ly Green Ener­gy” Tran­si­tion on States

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 19 states to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) decision to adopt rules that would force the Biden Administration’s costly and inefficient “green energy” transition onto states.

June 14, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Stay from Texas Supreme Court Stop­ping Har­ris County’s Unlaw­ful Guar­an­teed Income” Scheme

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has obtained a stay from the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) stopping an unlawful “guaranteed income” scheme by Harris County called “Uplift Harris” that violates the Texas Constitution.

June 14, 2024 | Press Release

Texas Supreme Court Grants Review of Polit­i­cal­ly Moti­vat­ed Law­fare Against OAG Leadership

The Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) has granted review of the lower court decision that has permitted politically motivated lawfare by the State Bar of Texas against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster to continue.

June 14, 2024 | Press Release

Deputy First Assis­tant Attor­ney Gen­er­al Grant Dorf­man Departs Texas Attor­ney General’s Office and Receives Judi­cial Appointment

Judge Grant Dorfman, who served as the Deputy First Assistant Attorney General since December 2020, left the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) after more than three years of dedicated service.

June 14, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Injunc­tion Stop­ping the Biden Administration’s Unlaw­ful Attempt to Ban Pri­vate Firearms Sales

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured an injunction halting a new rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) of the U.S. Department of Justice that unlawfully sought to abridge Americans’ constitutional right to privately buy and sell firearms.

June 12, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden Depart­ment of Labor to Pre­vent Attempt to Grant For­eign Labor­ers More Rights than Amer­i­can Workers

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of state attorneys general have sued the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (“DOL”) over a new regulation that aims to override longstanding federal law and give foreign nationals working in American agriculture more rights than American citizens.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Major Win Block­ing Biden Administration’s Attempt to Force Trans­gen­der” Poli­cies Into Schools, Secur­ing Nation­wide Relief Against Unlaw­ful Agency Actions

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a major victory against the Biden Administration’s Department of Education (“DOE”), stopping its attempt to rewrite Title IX to force Texas schools to adopt radical “transgender” policies in violation of state and federal law.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Leads Mul­ti­state Coali­tion Reach­ing Land­mark $700 Mil­lion Set­tle­ment Against John­son & John­son Over Mis­lead­ing Safe­ty Claims Regard­ing Its Talc-Based Baby Powder

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 42 other attorneys general reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. Texas, Florida, and North Carolina led an executive committee that included Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Maryland, New York, and Washington.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden’s Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices to Stop Rule Forc­ing Health­care Providers to Per­form Gen­der Tran­si­tion” Procedures

Texas and Montana have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and other members of the Biden Administration for adopting a new rule that forces states to pay for “gender transition” procedures through their Medicaid programs and requires healthcare providers to perform these procedures even when doing so would violate state law.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release