Pax­ton Files Brief with U.S. Supreme Court to Pro­tect Tax­pay­ers from the Sky­rock­et­ing Costs of Ille­gal Immigration

Attorney General Paxton is leading a 14-state coalition that has filed a cert-stage brief in the U.S. Supreme Court after the Biden Administration took unprecedented action to quietly abolish a federal immigration rule designed to protect American taxpayers.

September 13, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Con­tin­ues Fight for Med­ical Free­dom by Fil­ing Peti­tion Against San Anto­nio ISD in the Texas Supreme Court

Attorney General Paxton filed a petition for review requesting the Texas Supreme Court to reverse Texas’s San Antonio-based Fourth Court of Appeals’ ruling in favor of San Antonio ISD and issue an injunction against the district’s unlawful vaccine mandate. 

September 13, 2022 | Press Release

Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Defense Divi­sion Wins Major Tri­al in Case that Went Up to U.S. Supreme Court

A jury sided with a law enforcement officer represented by Attorney General Paxton’s Law Enforcement Defense Division in a case that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 09, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Joins Ami­cus Brief to Defend Col­lege Ath­let­ics and Pre­vent Dis­as­trous Out­comes From New Fed­er­al Court Rul­ing on Title IX

Attorney General Paxton has joined an Ohio-led cert-stage amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing back against the wrongly-decided Title IX ruling from the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

September 08, 2022 | Press Release

CON­SUMER ALERT: Beware Scam­mers Using Attor­ney Gen­er­al Paxton’s Name and Sig­na­ture to Steal Per­son­al Information

Attorney General Paxton today warned Texans of scammers attempting to use Attorney General Paxton’s name, signature, and the Office of the Attorney General seal to get their personal data.  

September 08, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Signs Women’s Bill of Rights to Affirm Basic Bio­log­i­cal Truths and Fight Back Against the Left’s Attempts to Rede­fine the Term Woman”

Attorney General Paxton has signed on as a supporter of the Women’s Bill of Rights, a document developed by the Independent Women’s Voice urging codification of the common sense and reality-based definition of a woman.

September 07, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Announces $439 Mil­lion Mul­ti­state Set­tle­ment With JUUL for Decep­tive Mar­ket­ing and Sales Prac­tices; Texas to Recov­er $42.8 Million

Attorney General Paxton has secured a $438.5 million agreement in principle between JUUL Labs and 34 states and territories, resolving a two-year bipartisan investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer’s marketing and sales practices.

September 06, 2022 | Press Release

Jury Sides with AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Defense Divi­sion Team in Case Con­cern­ing Texas Depart­ment of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Officers

In the case of Bourne v. Gunnels, et al., in the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, a jury returned a verdict in favor of six Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) officers defended by Attorney General Paxton’s Law Enforcement Defense Division (LEDD) team.

September 02, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Joins Ami­cus Brief to Pro­tect Amer­i­can Ser­vice Mem­bers’ Reli­gious Free­dom from Biden’s Uncon­sti­tu­tion­al Vac­cine Mandate

Attorney General Paxton has joined a Mississippi-led amicus brief in the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to prevent American service members from being forced to take a vaccine that goes against their religious beliefs.

September 02, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Sends Let­ter to Morn­ingstar and Sus­tain­a­lyt­ics Con­cern­ing Ram­pant Anti-Israel Bias and Lib­er­al Cor­po­rate Activism

Attorney General Paxton signed a multistate letter led by Kentucky and West Virginia and addressed to Morningstar, complaining of the egregious anti-Israel bias of its subsidiary, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings firm Sustainalytics.

August 30, 2022 | Press Release