Release date: 10/2/2017 (RALEIGH) Today Attorney General Josh Stein called on Congress to pass legislation to make treatment for drug addiction more affordable and accessible for Americans who most need it. “Almost four North Carolinians die each day due to overdose,” said Attorney General Stein. “These deaths are preventable. We know there are more people […]
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Release date: 7/5/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein wrote the federal government this week, urging the FCC to adopt rules that would allow telephone providers to block illegal robocalls. Attorney General Stein wrote the FCC in response to proposed rules that would allow providers to block several types of “spoofed” calls, in which a call […]
Release date: 5/22/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today applauded a U.S. Supreme Court Case ruling holding that patent trolls – i.e. businesses that exist for the primary purpose of bringing patent infringement lawsuits – cannot sue businesses in far-off states where they have little or no connection. AG Stein previously joined a bipartisan coalition […]
Release date: 9/26/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to stop her Department from rolling back critical protections for student loan borrowers. “More than 60 percent of North Carolina’s college graduates have student loan debt,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “Protecting those students from scams and fraud […]
Release date: 6/20/2017 Stein Reacts to Last-Minute Gut to Department of Justice Budget (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein released the below statement in response to the General Assembly’s last-minute inclusion of a nearly 40 percent cut to the North Carolina Department of Justice’s (NCDOJ) General Fund budget. The cut, which was not included in either […]
Release date: 5/17/2017 AG Stein Leads Effort to Return Prescription Drug Settlement Money to North Carolina (RALEIGH) AG Stein led a group of 51 state attorneys general in urging the U.S. Senate Finance Committee chair and ranking member to introduce legislation that would allow the federal government to return prescription drug settlement money to the […]
Release date: 9/6/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a lawsuit to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grantees. The lawsuit, filed this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, details the ways the Trump administration has violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution by discriminating […]
Release date: 6/16/2017 (RALEIGH) This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will delay important new rules that protect student loan borrowers from predatory and deceptive practices. Attorney General Josh Stein released the following statement in response: “Education is one of the best reasons I can think of to borrow money. But unfortunately, […]
Release date: 4/25/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today wrote President Trump strongly urging him to reconfirm the United States’ commitment to the critically needed Paris Agreement to address climate change. In the agreement, all countries vowed to work to address climate change and limit carbon emissions. Climate change is a threat to national security, the […]
Release date: 9/5/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina has settled with Lenovo (United States) Inc. to resolve allegations that the company violated state consumer protection laws by pre-installing software on laptop computers sold to North Carolina consumers that made consumers’ personal information vulnerable to hackers. The settlement was negotiated and […]