AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

March 29, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Announces $188.6 Mil­lion Mul­ti­state Set­tle­ment with Med­ical Device Man­u­fac­tur­er Boston Sci­en­tif­ic Corporation

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced a multistate settlement with Boston Scientific Corporation (Boston) regarding deceptive marketing of its surgical mesh products for women.

March 23, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Sues La Quin­ta BCB for Price Goug­ing Dur­ing 2021 Win­ter Storm

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Everyoung Hospitality LLC, d/b/a La Quinta San Antonio Brook City Base, accusing them of price gouging during the February 2021 winter storm emergency.

March 18, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Leads Mul­ti­state Com­plaint Against the Biden Admin­is­tra­tion, Demand­ing the Rein­state­ment of the Key­stone XL Permit

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Texas and Montana are filing a multistate complaint against the Biden administration for revoking the 2019 Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. 

March 17, 2021 | Press Release

Pur­due Phar­ma Files Bank­rupt­cy Plan, Estab­lish­ing Trust for Nation­wide Opi­oid Abate­ment Efforts

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Purdue Pharma filed its estimated $7 billion bankruptcy plan, which places the value of the company into a trust set up to allocate funds toward opioid abatement efforts across the nation.

March 17, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Ensures For­give­ness of $29 Mil­lion in Elec­tric Bills for 24,000 Tex­ans After Suing Grid­dy Ener­gy, LLC

Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement in response to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Griddy Energy, LLC.

March 16, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton: Alas­ka, Flori­da, Mon­tana, Neva­da and Puer­to Rico Join Texas-Led Bipar­ti­san Antitrust Law­suit Against Google

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amended complaint alleging antitrust violations and deceptive acts by Google in its lucrative online display advertising business. Attorneys General from Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada, and Puerto Rico joined the lawsuit originally filed by a coalition of 10 states, led by Texas, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 15 states and territories in this landmark case. 

March 16, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton: Fifth Cir­cuit Issues Sanc­tions Against Perkins Coie

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered sanctions against Marc Elias and other attorneys at Perkins Coie.

March 12, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Announces Mul­ti­state Set­tle­ment with AMCA Over 2019 Data Breach

Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas joined a coalition of 41 attorneys general in an Agreed Judgment against Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), resolving an investigation of AMCA’s  2019 data breach that exposed the personal information of over 7 million individuals, including approximately 1.4 million Texans.

March 12, 2021 | Press Release