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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a coalition of 50 Attorneys General has reached a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. as the result of an investigation into a large multi-year data breach of one of its guest reservation databases.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a 22-state coalition of attorneys general in urging a Tennessee court to enforce its orders requiring TikTok to comply with an ongoing multistate consumer protection investigation and to preserve and produce relevant evidence.
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A 32-year old cold case was reopened and a Norfolk jury found Vernon Lorenzo Gay guilty on Wednesday of rape and armed burglary with intention to commit rape. This a 1992 cold case reopened due to DNA testing provided by the Virginia Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
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Virginia’s right to retrieve law marked yet another victory as the Virginia Supreme Court summarily affirmed the ruling of the Court of Appeals that the plaintiffs in this case procedurally defaulted on their appeal.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Virginia court ordered the AJP Educational Foundation, Inc., also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), to produce records requested by a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) issued by his office.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a landscape-changing settlement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that permanently eases restrictions on Division I college athletes who have transferred schools multiple times.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that Michael Donivan White, age 36, originally of Cross, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to first degree murder of Big Stone Gap Police Officer Michael Chandler in the Wise County Circuit Court.
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced several top leadership appointments within the Office of the Attorney General.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a lawsuit to stop the Biden Administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers. A 24-state coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to challenge the Biden Administration’s new regulation of emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of states attempting to stop the Biden administration’s capitulation to illegal immigration activists.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined an 18 state coalition of attorneys general probing whether Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI, Inc.), a large investment company, is embracing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
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Attorney General Miyares joined a 27 state coalition condemning the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule expanding regulations on liquid waste produced by meat and poultry processing plants in the United States to include indirect discharges.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a 26-state coalition calling on the United States Senate to quickly pass the Laken Riley Act.
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Complaint charges Women's Cancer Fund and Gregory Anderson with raising more than $18 million from donors, with only 1% going to financial support for cancer patients.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced that his Unemployment Compensation Fraud Unit has secured another conviction.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Virginia man pleaded guilty to robbing the Old Point National Bank in Hampton while holding a bank customer at knifepoint.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general urging Congress to authorize much-needed 2024 bridge funding for the federal Crime Victims Fund (the “VOCA Fund”).
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a federal appeals court has upheld a court order that Virginia, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and six other states won against convicted criminal Martin Shkreli for engaging in illegal and monopolistic behavior as the CEO of Vyera Pharmaceuticals (previously known as Turing Pharmaceuticals).
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Richmond man was sentenced to two years in prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing a machine gun.
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Attorney General Miyares announced his legislative priorities and goals for the 2024 General Assembly session.
