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The Role of the State Attorney General
(First published Jan 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: State Attorney General Authority and Culture: May 1, 2023
- 2: Structure of the Office of the Attorney General: May 2, 2023
- 3: Attorneys General and Ethics: May 4, 2023
- 4: Supreme Court and State Solicitors General: May 8, 2023
- 5: Consumer Protection: May 9, 2023
- 6.4: Retention of Private Counsel
- 7: Multistate Negotiation Exercise: May 15, 2023
- 8: Criminal Jurisdiction and Authority: May 16, 2023
- 9.2.1: Delaware AG Jennings tells prosecutors to seek lesser prison sentences for some crimes, Delaware News Journal (Feb. 19, 2019)
- 9.3: Police Misconduct
- 10: Relationship with Federal Government: May 22, 2023
- 11.2.1: Pew Research Center, What Unites and Divides Urban, Rural and Suburban Communities (May 22, 2018) (edited)
- 11.2.2: How the Urban-Rural Divide Became America’s Political Fault Line, N.Y. Times (May 21, 2019)
- 11.5.2: WV counties, cities seek larger share of potential opioid settlement, Charleston Gazette Mail (Oct. 5, 2019)
- 11.5.5: Ohio Motion to Dismiss Local Lawsuits, In re McKinsey Opiate Consultant Litigation (Jan. 3, 2022)
- 12: Non-Profit Corporations, Charities, and Foundations: May 24, 2023
The Role of the State Attorney General incorporates additional material from:
- SB SANDBOX: The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2022) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School -Spring, 2021 (first published Aug 2023) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring 2023 (first published Dec 2022) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School - Fall, 2020 (first published Feb 2024) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2023) with contributions from:
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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring 2023
(First published Dec 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Overview of Responsibility
- 1.3: Overview of Authority
- 1.4: Pushback on Responsibility and Authority
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Historical Differences in the Role of the Attorney General
- 2.3: Delaware AG Investigates Client (2007 - 2008)
- 2.4: Modern Litigation on the Role of the Attorney General
- 2.6: Who is the Client? A role playing hypothetical
- 2.7.4: DA refers prison sex abuse probe to state attorney general's office, Times-Tribune (Jan. 7, 2017)
- 3.1: Introduction and Speaker
- 3.2: Ethical Rules and Government Lawyers
- 3.3: Attorneys General Ethical Dilemnas
- 3.4: Ethics Complaints Against Government Lawyers
- 4.1: Introduction and Speaker
- 4.2: Role of States in Supreme Court
- 4.3: Unique Status of States in Supreme Court
- 4.4.1: Texas Brief in Medellin v. Dretke (2005) (NAAG Best Brief Award) (SG Ted Cruz)
- 4.4.3: Dan Schweitzer, Top 10 Reasons to have a State Solicitor General
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.6.2: AG Ferguson: Judge Finds Comcast Violated the Consumer Protection Act Nearly Half a Million Times (June 6, 2019)
- 5.8.1: AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011) (edited)
- 5.8.2: Rent-A-Center, Inc. v. Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 843 N.W.2d 727 (Iowa 2014) (edited)
- 5.9: Supplemental Reading
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.4.1: State v. Lead Industries Ass'n, 951 A.2d 428 (R.I. 2008) (Track V) (edited)
- 7.1: Introduction
- 8.1: Introduction and Speaker
- 8.4.3: Former PA AG Kane Reports to Jail (Nov. 29, 2018)
- 8.4.5: Political Ad on Nevada AG Indicting Lt. Gov. (Oct. 25, 2016)
- 8.5: Grand Jury Reports
- 8.6.1: Idaho AG Wasden explains why deputies who shot rancher won't be charged (Apr. 15, 2018)
- 9: Criminal Justice Reform, Police Misconduct, and Labor Law: May 18, 2023
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.2.1: States Sue Over Acid Rain, UPI (Mar. 20, 1984)
- 10.2.2: Obama Preemption Executive Order (May 20, 2009)
- 11.1: Introduction
- 11.3: Local v. State Authority
- 11.4.1: Virginia AG Opinion on Gun Sanctuary Cities (Dec. 20, 2019)
- 11.4.3: South Carolina AG Opinion on Columbia Gun Ordinance (Dec. 3, 2019)
- 11.4.4: SC AG wins lawsuit against the City of Columbia over city gun laws (May 4, 2021)
- 11.4.5: Ohio Attorney General and Columbus locked in court dispute over extent of local firearm authority, Ohio Capital Journal (Jan. 24, 2023)
- 11.7: Supplemental Reading
- 12.1: Introduction
- 12.2: Overview and Attorney General Authority
- 12.3: Attorney General Non-Profit Cases
- 12.4: Coda: Be nice to your classmates, they will remember you
- 13.10: Fall 2022 Exam
The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring 2023 incorporates additional material from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall 2021 (first published Aug 2021) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2023) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School - Fall, 2020 (first published Feb 2024) with contributions from:
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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022
(First published Aug 2023)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1.3.2: Theodore Eisenberg and Richard Ieyoub, State Attorney General Actions, the Tobacco Litigation and the Doctrine of Parens Patriae, 74 Tul. L. Rev. 1859 (2000) (edited)
- 2.4.2: Berger v. North Carolina NAACP, 142 S. Ct. 2191 (2022) (edited)
- 2.4.3: Holcomb v. Bray, 187 N.E.3d 1268 (Ind. 2022) (edited)
- 3.2.3: Freeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas Co. v. FERC, 962 F.2d 45 (D.C. Cir. 1992) (edited)
- 3.4.1: Ethics Complaint filed against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (July 15, 2022)
- 3.4.2: Ethics Complaint against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Bar (May 25, 2022)
- 3.4.3: Deputy Texas AG Beats Ethics Claims Over 2020 Election Suit, Law360 (Sept. 20, 2022)
- 3.4.5: Cuomo Files Ethics Complaint Against Letitia James, N.Y. Times (Sept. 13, 2022)
- 3.4.6: Fulton County District Attorney Barred From Pursuing Criminal Case Against Trump Ally, N.Y. Times (July 25, 2022)
- 4.3.3: Louisiana v. American Rivers, 142 S. Ct. 1347 (2022) (Stay Order)
- 4.3.4: U.S. Application for Stay in United States v. Texas (July 2022) (edited)
- 4.3.5: United States v. Texas, Order denying stay, granting cert. (July 21, 2022)
- 4.4.4: Arizona v. Biden, 31 F.4th 469 (6th Cir. 2022) (Sutton, C.J.) (edited)
- 5.5: Civil Investigative Demand (CID) Authority
- 6: Privacy, Antitrust, Outside Counsel: May 11, 2023
- 7.2: Multistate Negotiation Background
- 7.3: Multistate Negotiation Individual Assignments
- 9.4: Labor Law Enforcement
- 10.2.3: After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts, N.Y. Times (Sept. 6, 2018)
- 10.2.4: U.S. Dep't of Education Preemption of State School Loan Regulation, 83 Fed. Reg. 10619 (Mar. 12, 2018)
- 10.2.5: Pennsylvania v Navient Corp, 967 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 2020) (edited)
- 10.3.1: Ohio AG Yost Files Suit Alleging Massive Robocall Scheme - FCC Joins Fight in Related Action (July 7, 2022)
- 10.3.2: Del. AG Jennings Announces Major Settlement With Former Top Mortgage Lender Over Allegations Of Redlining (July 27, 2022)
- 10.4.6: Stephen Vladek Amicus Brief in United States v. Texas, U.S. Supreme Court (July 13, 2022)
- 13: Past Exams
The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 incorporates additional material from:
- SB SANDBOX: The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2022) with contributions from:
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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring. 2022
(First published Jan 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 4.3.2: U.S. Attorney General Memo on Nationwide Injunctions (Sept. 2018)
- 4.4: Supplemental Reading
- 6.4.2: DeSantis taps D.C. law firm billing $725 an hour to defend culture war laws, Orlando Sentinel (June 17, 2022)
- 6.4.7: Supplemental Reading
- 8.2.4: Heather Cox Richardson, Role of the Ga. AG in the Arbery Prosecution, Letters from an American (Nov. 26, 2021)
- 9.3.1: What you need to know about the cost of police misconduct, Wash. Post (Mar. 10, 2022)
- 9.3.4: MN county attorneys: State AG office should handle police deadly force cases, MPR News (June 5, 2020)
- 9.3.8: NJ AG releases names of disciplined police officers, MyCentralJersey.com (Aug. 11, 2021)
- 9.5.1: AG James Files Lawsuit Against NYPD for Excessive Use of Force (Jan. 2021)
- 10.2: History of Conflict – Inaction v. Preemption
- 10.3: State and Federal Cooperation
- 10.4: States sue President
- 11: Relationship with Local and County Government: May 23, 2023
The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring. 2022 incorporates additional material from:
- SB SANDBOX: The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2022) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School - Fall, 2020 (first published Feb 2024) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022 (first published Aug 2023) with contributions from:
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