AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

March 15, 2021 | Noteworthy

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

AG Pax­ton: Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Divi­sion Recoups Over $2.4 Million

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the Environmental Protection Division has already recovered a staggering $2.4 million in civil litigation for the 2021 Fiscal Year.

March 08, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Expands Win­ter Storm Inves­ti­ga­tion into Nat­ur­al Gas Price Increases

Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to Intercontinental Gas Exchange, a natural gas exchange that saw massive price increases during the February winter storm that swept through Texas.  

March 08, 2021 | Press Release

AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

March 05, 2021 | Noteworthy

Texas Shuts Down Fraud­u­lent Nation­wide Tele­phone Scam

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Texas, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 38 states and the District of Columbia, stopped a massive telefunding operation by Associated Community Services (ACS) and a number of related defendants that bombarded over 67 million Americans with 1.3 billion deceptive calls falsely purporting to raise money for charity.

March 05, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton: Fed­er­al Inter­fer­ence in State Elec­tion Law Vio­lates the Constitution

Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a letter warning United States House and Senate leaders of Constitutional deficiencies within H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021,

March 05, 2021 | Press Release