Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures $2 Mil­lion in Refunds to Con­sumers Harmed by Inter­net Company’s Decep­tive Trade Practices

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a judgment against Nomad Internet which includes $2 million in refunds to customers harmed by the company’s unlawful and deceptive trade practices.

June 19, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Advis­es Texas Schools on the Appli­ca­tion of Title IX After Recent Legal Victory

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an advisory to Texas schools detailing the application of Title IX in light of a recent legal victory that stopped an attempt to force radical “transgender” policies onto state schools in violation of existing law.

June 18, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Noti­fies Over 100 Com­pa­nies of their Appar­ent Fail­ure to Com­ply with the Texas Data Bro­ker Law that Pro­tects Con­sumer Privacy

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued letters notifying over one hundred companies of their apparent failure to register as data brokers with the Texas Secretary of State as required by Texas’s newly enacted Data Broker Law.

June 18, 2024 | Press Release

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