In December 2023, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated an investigation into the major fundraising platform ActBlue to assess its compliance with applicable laws. ActBlue has faced numerous allegations of illicit activities, including claims that its platform may facilitate fraud. A key focus of the investigation is ActBlue’s previous failure to require donors to provide “CVV” codes when making credit card donations on the platform, a commonly required security measure.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a significant victory against Google, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling that the company’s anticompetitive business practices and monopoly violate the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced several senior staff promotions, appointing Ralph Molina as Deputy First Assistant Attorney General, Joseph Mazzara as Special Counsel to the Attorney General and to the First Assistant Attorney General, Ryan Baasch as Associate Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation, and Amy Hilton as Chief of the Healthcare Program Enforcement Division.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has notified the Biden Administration of Texas’s intent to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a significant victory, halting the Biden Administration’s attempt to redirect funds away from border wall construction. The administration declined to appeal after losing the case in federal court, thus forfeiting any further claims. The court directed the Biden Administration to continue the construction using the funding appropriated by Congress.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a significant victory at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which vacated an injunction that had ordered Texas to remove buoys placed in the Rio Grande to prevent unlawful entry into the United States.
An investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has secured a 60-month federal prison sentence for Rene Fernandez Gaviola, a Houston dentist involved in a $6.9 million fraud scheme. Gaviola will also serve three years of supervised release and has been ordered to pay $4,908,957 in restitution to Medicaid, along with a personal money judgment of $2,996,092.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) to halt the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the required authorization.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced his intention to appeal the dismissal of a lawsuit aimed at closing Annunciation House, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) accused of facilitating illegal immigration.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a significant victory by blocking the Biden Administration’s indefinite ban on approving applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) observed Sanctity of Life Day to commemorate the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a statement in response to the Supreme Court of the United States' (SCOTUS) split decision, which grants the federal government increased authority over states and halts an agreement between Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado that aimed to secure vital water allotments for Texas farmers.
Texas has reached a $10.22 million settlement involving 50 jurisdictions with AT&T Mobility, LLC, Cricket Wireless, LLC, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Cellco Partnership (doing business as Verizon Wireless), and TracFone Wireless, Inc. This agreement resolves investigations by state attorneys general into the wireless carriers' deceptive and misleading advertising practices.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a judgment against Nomad Internet, resulting in $2 million in refunds to customers harmed by the company’s deceptive trade practices.
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 the newly enacted Data Broker Law.
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. Young wrote fraudulent prescriptions for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests for more than 13,000 beneficiaries and received $475,000 in illegal kickbacks from providers.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a stay from the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) halting Harris County's "guaranteed income" program, known as "Uplift Harris," which he claims violates the Texas Constitution.
Judge Grant Dorfman, who served as the Deputy First Assistant Attorney General since December 2020, has left the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) after more than three years of service. He has been nominated by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as a judge on Texas’s newly established Eleventh Business Court Division in Houston.
The Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) has granted a review of the lower court decision that has allowed disciplinary actions by the State Bar of Texas against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster to proceed.
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 sought to abridge Americans’ constitutional right to privately buy and sell firearms.
