For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general urged Congress to act now to help stop organized retail crime. Organized retail crime occurs when groups of people work together to steal large amounts of merchandise from […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 37 bipartisan Attorneys General called on the Food and Drug Administration to stop bad actors from selling harmful counterfeit versions of popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound or illegally selling […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that the state’s price gouging law is in effect across the state after Governor Josh Stein declared a state of emergency in advance of this week’s winter weather. The price gouging law makes it unlawful […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 13, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today won a preliminary injunction from a federal judge to block the attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States. Attorney General Jackson released the following statement: “This executive order was a straightforward violation of the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 13, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Governor Josh Stein today announced a settlement with Pactiv Evergreen on behalf of the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the town of Canton, and Haywood County. Pactiv will pay $6.25 million in financial restitution. The settlement […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, February 10, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson won a temporary restraining order preventing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from unlawfully stripping funds that support cutting-edge medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country. “This attempt to slash funding for […]
For Immediate Release: Saturday, February 8, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 RALEIGH – This morning, a judge blocked the federal government from unlawfully sharing Americans’ personal and financial data with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Attorney General Jeff Jackson sued last night and asked the judge for this order to prevent unlawful access […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 7, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed nahmed@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today filed a lawsuit to stop the federal government from unlawfully sharing Americans’ personal and financial data with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Attorney General Jackson shared the following statement: “This is federal overreach that puts millions […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 6, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 Jackson also released the 2024 Annual Report on Data Breaches in North Carolina RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today announced that he is investigating the recent PowerSchool data breach that impacted more than 62.4 million current and former students and teachers across […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 31, 2025 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 RALEIGH – Today, the North Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the SAFE Child Act’s lookback window is constitutional. In McKinney v. Goins, Solicitor General Ryan Park and the Department of Justice defended the legislature’s creation of a two-year period in which adults […]