For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Casey Cooper, CEO, Cherokee Indian Hospital, Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman, Franklin Mayor Bob Scott, and Highlands Mayor Patrick Taylor have received the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award. These awards are given annually to honor North Carolinians who are dedicated to […]
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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero has received the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award. These awards are given annually to honor North Carolinians who are dedicated to keeping people safe, healthy, and happy in their communities. “Chief Yaniero has been a great […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Sen. Danny Britt has received the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award. These awards are given annually to honor North Carolinians who are dedicated to keeping people safe, healthy, and happy in their communities. “I have been proud to work alongside Sen. […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Dr. Mark Bowling has received the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award. These awards are given annually to honor North Carolinians who are dedicated to keeping people safe, healthy, and happy in their communities. “Dr. Mark Bowling is doing important work in […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today awarded 22 North Carolinians with the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award. These awards are given annually to honor North Carolinians who are dedicated to keeping people safe, healthy, and happy in their communities. Each of today’s 22 recipients have been working to address […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 22, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today opposed an unlawful proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to gut the current standards that limit emissions of methane and other harmful pollutants from new, reconstructed, and modified facilities in the oil and natural gas industry. This sector is the largest industrial […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 22, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of public servants who were promised federal student loan debt forgiveness in exchange for 10 years of public […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 22, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced he reached a $1.25 million settlement with a Wilmington family medicine physician, Dr. Dorothy Agbafe-Mosley, and her medical practice, Ave Maria Family Practice PLLC, to resolve allegations involving the submission of false claims for addiction treatment to the North Carolina Medicaid […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 15, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to consider a rule on abusive non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Attorney General Stein joins a coalition of 19 attorneys general highlighting the damage these clauses do to workers, other businesses, and consumers. “North Carolina’s workers […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 15, 2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein pushed back against a federal proposal that would undermine children’s ability to obtain Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status. SIJ status protects abused, neglected, and abandoned children by allowing them to become legal residents, and eventually, U.S. citizens. The Trump administration’s proposal threatens to […]