• TN and VA Lawsuit Against NCAA's Illegal Recruitment Ban Expands Coalition

    Wednesday, May 01, 2024 | 10:44am

    On Wednesday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, along with Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, announced that Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia have joined the multistate coalition challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for violating federal antitrust laws with its anticompetitive restrictions on the ability of current and future student-athletes to benefit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

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  • Tennessee Leads Fight to Preserve Title IX, Student Privacy, and Fairness for Women in Education

    Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 01:48pm

    On Tuesday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led six states in suing the federal Department of Education (DOE) to challenge its dangerous overhaul of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act, which would harm Tennessee students, families, and schools. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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  • TN AG Skrmetti Sues Nashville Fertility Specialist to Protect Consumer-Patients after Clinic’s Abrupt Closure

    Friday, April 26, 2024 | 03:50pm

    NASHVILLE – Today, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti sued Dr. Jaime M. Vasquez, M.D., and the businesses associated with his fertility clinic, the Center for Reproductive Health, P.C., under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, seeking immediate relief from ongoing harms to consumer-patients caused by Dr. Vasquez’s unexpected suspension of patient care and the sudden closure of his clinic.

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  • Tennessee Leads Lawsuit against EEOC’s Illegal Federal Overreach

    Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 03:50pm

    NASHVILLE – On Thursday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, alongside Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, led a coalition of 17 States in suing the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over its new rule mandating workplace abortion accommodations through an illegal interpretation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act of 2022 (PWFA).

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  • TN AG Skrmetti Defends Tennessee Consumers from Predatory Personal Lending Company

    Tuesday, April 02, 2024 | 02:49pm

    NASHVILLE – On Tuesday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced that Tennessee has joined a multistate lawsuit against Mariner Finance over widespread violations of multiple consumer protection laws. The suit alleges that Mariner Finance charged consumers for hidden add-on products that consumers were not fully informed about or, in some instances, did not agree to buy. In doing so, Mariner illegally added hundreds or sometimes thousands of dollars to the amounts consumers owed the company. In 2019 alone, Mariner charged consumers $121.7 million nationwide in premiums and fees for add-on products.

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  • Attorney General Skrmetti Applauds Tennessee’s Opioid Abatement Efforts

    Friday, March 22, 2024 | 11:24am

    NASHVILLE – On Friday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti applauded Tennessee’s Opioid Abatement Council (OAC) for releasing its first ever round of community grants totaling $80,936,057. The Tennessee Attorney General’s office has spent years litigating against opioid manufacturers and distributors and securing these funds, a fraction of the total settlement money coming to Tennessee, to help address the opioid crisis. Programs funded through the grants will support work in response to opioid addiction throughout Tennessee for up to three years.

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  • Tennessee Joins Lawsuit against Apple’s Monopolization of Smartphone Markets

    Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 12:09pm

    NASHVILLE – On Thursday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, alongside 15 state and district Attorneys General, joined the United States Department of Justice in filing a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple for monopolization or attempted monopolization of smartphone markets in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

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  • TN AG Skrmetti Joins Brief Supporting Texas’ Right to Protect its Citizens from Illegal Immigration

    Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 11:58am

    NASHVILLE – On Wednesday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a coalition of 22 states in filing an amicus brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of Texas’s state law SB4. SB4 makes illegal immigration into the Lone Star State a state crime and allows state magistrates and judges to order those who have crossed the border illegally back to the country from which they entered.

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  • TN AG Pushes Back on Unlawful DEI Federal Regulation

    Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 08:56am

    On Monday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led 24 states in warning the Department of Labor (DOL) that its proposed rule to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the National Apprenticeship System exceeds congressional authority, illegally promotes racial-discrimination, and is antithetical to the American ideal of equality.

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