Attorney General Ken Paxton Distributes Over $100,000 in Payments to Relieve Effect of Border Crime Through New Landowner Compensation Program
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued more than $100,000 of disbursements to Texans affected by border-related crimes through the new Landowner Compensation Program.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Defeats Biden-Harris Administration’s Attempt to Force Texas Health Entities to Illegally Provide Minors with Contraceptives Without Parental Consent
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory against the Biden-Harris Administration after suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) for unlawfully adopting a rule to nullify state laws that secure parents’ rights to consent to their children’s medical care.
Nationwide Injunction Blocks Unconstitutional Law That Imposed Massive Costs on Small Businesses
Attorney General Ken Paxton applauded a major victory for Texas small businesses as a federal judge granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against an unconstitutional federal law that would have imposed major costs on tens of millions of small businesses through illegal and burdensome regulations.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Death Sentence For Murderer Who Killed a Police Officer While Carrying Drugs Across State Lines
Gregory Newson has been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in 2019.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for Illegally Conspiring to Manipulate Energy Markets, Driving Up Costs for Consumers
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Austin Taxpayer-Funded “Homeless Navigation Center” for Facilitating Public Drug Use and Violent Incidents Next to Elementary School
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Austin-based Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center for operating as a common nuisance in violation of Texas law. Activities permitted by the center are drastically harming quality of life in the area and endangering neighborhood residents, local businesses, and the students of a nearby elementary school.
At SCOTUS, Attorney General Ken Paxton Defends Texas Law Requiring Age Verification Measures for Pornography Sites; Dozens of States, Lawmakers, and Experts File Briefs In Support
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”), asking it to uphold House Bill 1181, a Texas law requiring pornography companies to institute reasonable age-verification measures to safeguard children from obscene online material. Texas will argue the case before SCOTUS on January 15, 2025.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden-Harris Administration for Unlawful Regulations Against Cryptocurrency Markets
Attorney General Ken Paxton, as part of an 18-state coalition, sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and members of the Biden-Harris Administration for unlawfully promulgating sweeping new regulations on cryptocurrencies without any legal authority.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Investigation Results in 10-Year Prison Sentence and Over $34 Million Restitution for North Texas Doctor
Daniel Ramiro Canchola, 54, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a $54 million health care fraud scheme.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Obtains 55-Year Sentence for Child Sex Offender in Nueces County
A jury in the 117th District Court of Nueces County, Texas, sentenced Lowell Williams to 40 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child and to 15 years for Sexual Assault of a Child, to be served consecutively.