AG Pax­ton Announces $116.9 Mil­lion Mul­ti­state Set­tle­ment with John­son & John­son, Ethicon, Inc. for Decep­tive Mar­ket­ing of Sur­gi­cal Mesh Med­ical Devices

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced a $116.9 million multistate settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. for deceptively marketing transvaginal surgical mesh devices.

October 18, 2019 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Leads Mul­ti-State Coali­tion Win in Law­suit to Pro­tect Tex­ans and Physi­cians from Oba­macare Mandate

Attorney General Ken Paxton today applauded the United States District Court for declaring unlawful a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation that redefined discrimination on the basis of “sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy.”

October 15, 2019 | Press Release

AG Paxton’s Child Exploita­tion Unit Makes Child Pornog­ra­phy Arrest in Whar­ton County

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that on Wednesday the Child Exploitation Unit (CEU) of his office arrested 37-year-old Jeremiah Joshua Pace, of El Campo, Texas, on one count of Possession of Child Pornography.

October 11, 2019 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton: The EPA’s Ozone Rule Would Impose Cost­ly and Unnec­es­sary Reg­u­la­tions on San Antonio

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office today argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final action designating Bexar County a nonattainment area for the 2015 national ambient air quality standards for ground-level ozone.

October 09, 2019 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton State­ment on Case Chal­leng­ing Removal of Con­fed­er­ate Mon­u­ments at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin

October 08, 2019 | Noteworthy

Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Argues at Fifth Cir­cuit in Defense of State Laws Pro­tect­ing Women’s Health and the Unborn

Attorneys from Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a U.S. District Court decision enjoining a Mississippi law that generally restricts non-emergency abortions to the first 15 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy.

October 07, 2019 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton: Dis­miss the City of Austin’s Base­less Law­suit Over Imag­ined Future Litigation

October 07, 2019 | Noteworthy

AG Pax­ton Con­grat­u­lates Attor­neys David Ash­ton and Nick Grim­mer on Win­ning Pres­ti­gious NAAG Antitrust Award

September 25, 2019

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton Warns Tex­ans of Price Goug­ing in Wake of Trop­i­cal Storm Imelda

September 19, 2019

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Issues State­ment on Chap­ter 11 Bank­rupt­cy Fil­ing of Pur­due Pharma

Attorney General Paxton released the following statement in response to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Purdue Pharma and all affiliated U.S. companies in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

September 16, 2019 | Noteworthy