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News · AR
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced a settlement valued between and over environmental contamination claims involving PCBs.
News · NY
Attorney General Letitia James will lead a criminal investigation into allegations that a former Cornell student was drugged and assaulted.
News · MN
The complaint targets Minnesota judges’ criticism of Metro Surge and begins a review process rather than deciding the matter.
News · IN
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita alleges disciplinary officials retaliated against him because of political speech.
News · TX
Fair Park’s former private operator seeks more than, alleging Dallas failed to meet funding and other contractual commitments.
News · FL
The attorney general’s lawsuit opens a court dispute over claims connected to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
News · MT
The ruling stops enforcement of a Montana law linked to thousands of rejected absentee ballots last year.
News · CA
The new California law changes the legal landscape for lawsuits involving pen registers, without a directly linked election or candidate race.
News · AZ
Arizona failed to stop the scheduled start of a court-ordered takeover of health care in its state prisons.
News · CO
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop an ICE detention center in Hudson.
News · HI
The former Trump prosecutor told the Senate that the threat of prosecution would not stop him from speaking.
News · IN
The lawsuit creates a court dispute among the attorney general, a state court commission and the Lake County prosecutor.
News · SD
Attorney General Jackley says a federal appeals court will hear a dispute involving a South Dakota ballot question.
News · FL
The judge found the federal restriction at issue in the Miami case unconstitutional, opening the door to further court proceedings.
News · CA
The states accuse the Trump administration of withholding money that Congress approved.
News · TN
The U.S. Supreme Court later allowed Tennessee to proceed, but the execution attempt did not result in Christa Pike’s death.
News · NY
The state’s lawsuit centers on ticket refunds and vendor fees that Evolutions Festival allegedly failed to return.
News · FL
The governor signed a death warrant for a man who killed his cellmate while confined in a Florida state prison.
News · AR
The lawsuit brings 29 defendants into a court dispute involving abortion pills sent through the mail.
News · LA
The city is challenging a Louisiana ruling that upheld the elimination of an elected criminal court clerk’s office after an election.
News · AR
The attorneys general of Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama announced a multistate lawsuit involving laws tied to mailed abortion pills.
News · OK
A Winter Storm Uri gas case is headed to trial, the state high court has ruled on a birth certificate law, and insurance pressures are growing.
News · LA
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas say laws in New York, California and Massachusetts obstruct investigations into mailed abortion pills.
News · MN
The Justice Department’s misconduct complaint concerns interviews by Minnesota’s former chief federal judge and other federal judges.
News · IN
The state office announced cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, a government action not directly connected to an election.
News · LA
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas announced a federal lawsuit against three states over shield laws tied to mailing abortion pills.
News · IN
The Indiana attorney general has entered into an agreement with ICE, marking a new state-federal administrative action.
News · AL
Alabama’s attorney general has announced a settlement with TikTok valued in the millions of dollars.
News · MD
An appellate court rejected Baltimore’s request for a protective order, finding that the requested court action did not appear necessary.
News · AR
Griffin says abortion pills shipped into Arkansas are illegal and has announced a lawsuit over the shipments.