Tuesday, September 11, 2018 As Hurricane Florence approaches our coast this week, all of North Carolina is under a state of emergency. This means that our state’s price gouging law is in effect as well. Price gouging occurs if businesses or vendors charge excessively high prices in a time of crisis. If you notice businesses […]
Release date: 9/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to continue protecting the rights of consumers against credit discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The Attorneys General, who share authority with the CFPB to […]
Release date: 8/31/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today criticized the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for putting the interests of predatory for-profit schools ahead of the students she is sworn to protect. Secretary DeVos has proposed changes to the Department’s borrower defense protections that, if adopted, would make it more […]
Release date: 8/23/2018 (RALEIGH) – Attorney General Josh Stein today called on Congress today to help end the opioid epidemic and close a loophole that allows those who traffic deadly fentanyl to stay a step ahead of law enforcement. “The rate of death from opioid overdose is climbing in large part due to fentanyl and […]
Release date: 8/21/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 17 Attorneys General speaking out in support of HUD’s Disparate Impact Rule that protects people against housing discrimination. In June, HUD began the process to consider rewriting the Disparate Impact Rule. The Attorneys General, who have widespread experience enforcing fair housing laws and […]
Release date: 8/17/2018 Attorney General today called on Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to withdraw his predecessor’s “harmful and deeply flawed” proposal to censor science at the Agency. The call was part of detailed comments Attorney General Stein submitted as part of a 23-member coalition of states, counties, and cities on former EPA […]
Release date: 8/7/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today submitted comments opposing the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) plans to significantly revise the Well Control Rule, formally known as the Oil and Gas and Sulfur Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf – Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control regulations. The Well Control […]
8/6/2018 Attorney General Josh Stein August 2018 Summer vacation is wrapping up, and many of you or your children are beginning to think about or are getting ready to start or return to college. But there’s important homework to do before the semester begins.Higher education is a major financial investment, and students can use the […]
Release date: 8/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today took legal action to prevent unrestricted access to untraceable, undetectable 3D guns by announcing that he would be joining a multistate lawsuit that seeks to block a Trump administration action allowing the public release of 3D firearm blueprints. The blueprints would allow individuals, regardless of age, […]
Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Our office has seen a string of email scams in the past few weeks from scammers threatening to release private videos of you unless you pay them. The scammers will contact you and claim that they have a password for your email account. This may be an older password for your […]