Release date: 3/9/2018 Department of Interior’s Proposed Plan Would Dramatically Expand Offshore Drilling (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today submitted comments to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) opposing the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Plan that BOEM has proposed for 2019-2024. BOEM’s plan, if approved, would open the North Carolina coast […]
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Release date: 3/6/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today called on congressional leaders to pass legislation supporting victims of child pornography. The bipartisan bill, the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2017, would make it easier for victims of child pornography to obtain restitution. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate […]
Release date: 3/6/2018 Lantern Fest Allegedly Failed to Issue Refunds (RALEIGH, NC) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a lawsuit against event production companies Lantern Fest Productions and Sack Lunch Productions, alleging unfair and deceptive business practices from both companies. The lawsuit alleges that Lantern Fest and Sack Lunch planned, advertised, sold tickets to events […]
Release date: 3/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today wrote Secretary Betsy DeVos, criticizing the Department of Education’s (the Department) proposed redraft on borrower defense and financial responsibility regulations. Borrower defense is the process by which students who have been defrauded by their schools can have their federal student loans discharged. “Secretary DeVos needs to focus […]
Release date: 4/9/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today moved to protect healthcare access for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians by filing a motion to intervene in Texas et al. v. United States et al., a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Texas which seeks to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The […]
Release date: 4/3/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a lawsuit to block inclusion of a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 decennial Census. Demanding citizenship information would depress Census turnout in states with large immigrant populations, directly threatening those states’ fair representation for billions of dollars in critical federal funds for education, infrastructure, […]
Release date: 11/15/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has reached a settlement with Atrium Health as a result of the antitrust lawsuit the North Carolina Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice filed in 2016. “As a result of this settlement, people will be able to purchase lower cost, […]
Release date: 11/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the law and keep the Clean Power Plan, the first nationwide limits on climate change pollution from existing fossil-fueled power plants. In extensive comments filed with EPA, Attorney General Stein and his colleagues across […]
Release date: 10/23/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 33 attorneys general calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to continue protecting military servicemembers against predatory lenders under the Military Lending Act (MLA). The attorneys general urge the CFPB to reconsider its reported decision to […]
Release date: 1/8/2018 AG Stein also releases annual report of data breaches in NC in 2017 – up more than 15 percent since 2016 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine today unveiled legislation to strengthen North Carolina’s laws to prevent data breaches and to protect affected victims. “Last year, more than 5.3 […]