Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general expressing strong support for hearings conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee addressing protection and safety of kids and teens using social media.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2021 | 02:28pm
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | 02:11pm
Nashville- The Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) within the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General is fielding complaints about recruitment schemes offered by various Bitcoin websites.
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Monday, September 27, 2021 | 03:54pm
Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has appealed and will immediately seek a stay of two recent federal district court decisions against the enforcement of Governor Bill Lee’s Executive Order 84, which allows a student’s parent or guardian the right to opt out of any requirement to wear a face covering at school, on a school bus, or at school functions.
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Monday, September 27, 2021 | 03:42pm
Nashville – A U.S. district court has ruled in favor of Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in their lawsuit to stop the Biden Administration from enforcing an unconstitutional tax mandate. The mandate in the American Rescue Plan Act prohibits states from providing tax relief to their citizens.
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Friday, September 24, 2021 | 09:44am
Nashville- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today issued the following statement on the passing of Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Connie Clark: I was honored to have known and worked with Justice Clark, an eighth-generation Tennessean whose contributions to the judiciary and the people of Tennessee will be felt for generations to come...
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Monday, September 20, 2021 | 02:25pm
Nashville- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam today applauding legislative proposals to modernize federal antitrust laws.
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Monday, September 20, 2021 | 01:07pm
The Division of Consumer Affairs in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is warning consumers about flood damaged vehicles that may appear in used car markets following Hurricane Ida.
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Thursday, September 16, 2021 | 02:22pm
In a letter to President Joe Biden, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III expresses serious concerns about the legality of a recently announced nationwide vaccination and testing requirement for COVID-19.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | 10:34am
In a letter to congressional leaders, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and 22 other attorneys general warn that legislation under consideration in Congress would allow the United States Department of Justice to federalize the election system by usurping the authority states rightly possess over the administration of their elections.
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Monday, August 30, 2021 | 02:24pm
Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, leading a 20-state coalition, filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Tennessee today. The complaint seeks to stop the Biden Administration from enforcing new, expansive, and unlawful interpretations of federal antidiscrimination laws.
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Friday, August 27, 2021 | 09:11am
Nashville – Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general to ensure that the Biden Administration will faithfully defend a long-standing federal immigration statute that prohibits illegal re-entry.
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Thursday, August 19, 2021 | 12:41pm
Nashville- The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is investigating reports of a Government Grant Scam targeting Tennesseans by text message.
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Thursday, August 19, 2021 | 11:14am
Nashville – Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is co-leading a group of thirty-one states, U.S. territories, and jurisdictions urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the surge of youth nicotine addiction. Specifically, the bipartisan coalition is calling on the FDA to use its regulatory power to eliminate youth-appealing flavors, limit nicotine levels in e-cigarette and oral nicotine products such as pouches, gum, and lozenges, and restrict marketing for these products. The FDA is responsible for deciding whether to allow the products to stay on the market through the Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) filed for each product, and these proposed measures would deny approval for any product that would worsen America’s youth nicotine epidemic.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021 | 10:14am
Nashville-Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology.
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Thursday, August 05, 2021 | 03:31pm
Nashville- Today the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Tennessee’s 48-hour waiting period for abortions is constitutional. The Court’s ruling reverses the district court’s decision in Bristol Regional Women’s Center v. Slatery.