October 23, 2015 - As part of a statewide effort by the Texas Attorney General’s Office (OAG) to fight fraud and scams affecting senior Texans, today Assistant Attorney General Rick Berlin participated as the main speaker at the Southeast Senior Texans Celebration and Consumer Expo organized by the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

October 9, 2015 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today released the following statement after a federal court granted a nationwide stay of the Obama Administration’s new waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule:

October 6, 2015 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Texas, together with four states and the federal government, had reached a settlement with BP that fully resolves all remaining government claims against the company resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Texas’ share of today’s announced settlement totals more than $800 million in money and restoration projects. Combined with money from previous settlements, Texas will ultimately receive more than $1 billion to help restore Texas’s Gulf resources.

September 28, 2015 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed an amicus brief with the Texas Supreme Court in Matthews v. Kountze Independent School District, supporting the constitutional rights of Texas’ public schoolchildren to express their own messages at school and school-related events.

September 1, 2015 - The Texas Attorney General’s Office today delivered oral arguments in Williams v. Calhoun County ISD, et al, addressing the school finance system in Texas. Solicitor General Scott Keller and Assistant Solicitors General Rance Craft and Beth Klusmann argued on behalf of the state.