For Immediate Release: Monday, April 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Robert Adam Burns pleaded guilty in New Hanover County to four counts of statutory sex offenses with a 13-,14-, or 15-year-old and four counts of indecent liberties with a child and was sentenced to 16-20 years […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today proposed several strategies to recruit and retain law enforcement officers. North Carolina is experiencing a shortage of officers in many communities. “Law enforcement officers keep our families and communities safe, and we are less safe when there are […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 21, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein supported the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) proposed rule to strengthen critical fair housing protections. The proposal will implement the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule by promoting residential integration and increasing protections against unlawful discriminatory […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 State Crime Lab Opens Expanded Drug Chemistry and Toxicology **Video and pictures from today’s event are available here for media use (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today continued leading state efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis by opening the renovated Drug Chemistry and […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 17, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against Google alleging that the company harmed consumers by creating a 15-year monopoly in digital advertising technology. By stifling competition through anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct, Google is limiting people’s access to ideas, information, […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 14, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to maintain approval for and access to the medication abortion drug mifepristone while a lower court case is appealed. If the Supreme Court doesn’t take this […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 10, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today challenged a decision that could restrict medication abortion access nationwide. Attorney General Stein and a coalition of 24 attorneys general filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urging the court to […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 10, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a settlement of more than $226,000 to resolve allegations that MedCare Clinic & Pharmacy, LLC (“MedCare”) in Indian Trail caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and the North Carolina Medicaid program. The funds from this […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today supported the Biden administration’s proposal to scrap dangerous Trump-era rules that allow employers to interfere in their employees’ reproductive health decisions. These rules took away contraceptive coverage from women who should have been entitled to it under the Affordable […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, March 31, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to support states’ efforts to protect their residents from violent threats. In an amicus brief, Attorney General Stein and a bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general argue the First Amendment does not protect […]