For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 21, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein was honored this month by the National Association of Attorneys General with the Miller-Wasden Unity Award for his bipartisanship, in particular his efforts leading the state attorneys general in successfully securing $56 billion in opioid settlement funds. “I am […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein led a bipartisan group of 52 other attorneys general that today announced a $700 million agreement with Google in their lawsuit about Google’s anticompetitive conduct with the Google Play Store. “No company is too big to play by the […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, December 15, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today won a court order requiring TikTok to comply with his investigative demand as part of his ongoing investigation. “Keeping North Carolina children safe is job one – wherever they are, including online,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “TikTok […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 14, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today sued HCA Healthcare for failing to comply with the Asset Purchase Agreement it executed when it purchased Mission Health System in 2019. Attorney General Stein alleges that HCA is not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Alfred Louis Logan, Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to between 30 and 37 years in prison. Logan was charged with the murder of Kedrick Tevon Green in Arden in November 2021. “This […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and a coalition of 11 attorneys general released the following statement after the Texas Supreme Court denied abortion access to Kate Cox, a pregnant woman whose health and life were at risk as a result of a lethal fetal […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he obtained a temporary restraining order against the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) transfer eligibility rule. The order is part of Attorney General Stein’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA. “I am pleased that the Court […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after he and Gov. Roy Cooper filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Pierce v. North Carolina State Board of Elections. The plaintiffs, two African-American voters from Halifax and Martin counties, are asking a federal court […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that he has sued Charlotte-based A1 Towing Solutions, Inc. and its owner David Jewel Satterfield for allegedly racially targeting consumers and illegally booting and towing their vehicles. Attorney General Stein is adding these allegations to his ongoing lawsuit […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, December 8, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify that states have the authority to regulate social media platforms. The brief was submitted in two cases currently before the Court, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, […]