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The Role of the Government Lawyer - Bates College - Short Term 2023
(First published Mar 2023)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 3: State Attorney General Authority and Culture
- 4.2.2: People ex rel. Deukmejian v. Brown, 29 Cal. 3d 150, 624 P.2d 1206, 172 Cal. Rptr. 478 (1981) (edited)
- 4.4.1: Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, 142 S. Ct. 1002 (2022) (edited)
- 4.4.2: Berger v. North Carolina NAACP, 142 S. Ct. 2191 (2022) (edited)
- 4.4.3: Holcomb v. Bray, 187 N.E.3d 1268 (Ind. 2022) (edited)
- 4.7.15: Vermont youths that claim abuse by 22 DCF employees at Woodside juvenile center, Bennington Banner (Dec. 12, 2021)
- 6.3.1: Evolving relationship between Alabama AG Pryor and Alabama Chief Justice Moore
- 6.3.3: Judge rejects Arizona's effort to dismiss prison teacher rape lawsuit, CNN (Feb. 5, 2015)
- 6.4.1: Ethics Complaint against TX AG Ken Paxton Bar (May 25, 2022)
- 6.4.3: St. Louis Judge Dismisses Prosecutor From McCloskey Case, Courthouse News Service (Jan. 2. 2023)
- 7.2: Role of States in Supreme Court
- 7.3.4: U.S. Application for Stay in United States v. Texas (July 2022) (edited)
- 7.4.11: Texas Brief in Medellin v. Dretke (2005) (NAAG Best Brief Award) (SG Ted Cruz)
- 8.3.1: DE AG Announces Major Settlement With Former Top Mortgage Lender Over Allegations Of Redlining, DE AG website (July 27, 2022)
- 8.4: States sue President
- 10.2: Massachusetts Consumer Protection Statute: M.G.L. ch. 93A
- 10.5.2: Judge Finds Comcast Violated the Consumer Protection Act Nearly Half a Million Times, WA AG website (June 6, 2019)
- 10.6: Multistate Consumer Protection Actions
- 10.7.2: Rent-A-Center, Inc. v. Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 843 N.W.2d 727 (Iowa 2014) (edited)
- 10.8.2: AG Paxton Issues Civil Investigative Demands to Five LeadingTech Companies Regarding Discriminatory and Biased Policies, TX AG website and Practices (Jan. 13, 2021)
- 11: Privacy, Antitrust, and State Attorneys General
- 12.4.1: NM Attorney General unveils changes on hiring private lawyers, Albuquerque Journal (Mar. 30, 2015)
- 13.2: Multistate Negotiation Background
- 14.1: Introduction
- 14.4.1: VA AG Opinion on Gun Sanctuary Cities (Dec. 20, 2019)
- 14.4.2: Another Challenge to NY Gun Laws: Sheriffs Who Won’t Enforce It, N.Y. Times (Oct. 9, 2022)
- 14.5: State and Local Divide - Opioids
- 14.7: Supplemental Reading
- 15: Criminal Authority and State Attorneys General
- 16.2: Criminal Justice Reform
- 16.3: Police Misconduct
- 16.4.6: NY AG James Files Lawsuit Against NYPD for Excessive Use of Force (Jan. 2021)
- 17.2.1: Jane Flanagan, Alt-Enforcers: the Emergence of State Attorneys General as Workplace Rights Enforcers, 95 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 103 (2020) (edited)
- 18.2.1: The Nonprofit Sector in Brief, National Center for Charitable Statistics, The Urban Institute (June 2020)
- 18.5.7.3: Noah Feldman, New York's Attorney General Shouldn't Dismantle the NRA, Bloomberg (Aug. 6, 2020)
- 18.5.7.5: Republican attorneys general back NRA in fight against NY effort to dissolve gun rights group, Wash. Post (Dec. 22, 2020)
- 18.5.7.6: NRA Judge blocks NY AG's attempt to dissolve it but allows suit to proceed, CNN Politics (Mar. 2, 2022)
- 18.7: Coda: Be nice to your classmates, they will remember you
- 22.6: Fall 2019 Exam
- 23: Massachusetts Consumer Protection Statute: M.G.L. ch. 93A
The Role of the Government Lawyer - Bates College - Short Term 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:
- 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 (first published Jan 2020) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Spring. 2022 (first published Jan 2022) 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-Spring 2023
(First published Dec 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 3.2.2: Paul Wilson, A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education (1995) (excerpts)
- 3.3: Overview of Authority
- 3.4: Pushback on Responsibility and Authority
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2.3: William Marshall, Break Up the Presidency? Governors, State Attorneys General and Lessons from the Divided Executive, 115 Yale L.J. 2445 (2006) (edited)
- 4.4: Modern Litigation on the Role of the Attorney General
- 4.6: Who is the Client? A role playing hypothetical
- 6.2: Ethical Rules and Government Lawyers
- 6.4: Ethics Complaints Against Government Lawyers
- 7.1: Introduction
- 8.1: Introduction
- 8.2.1: States Sue Over Acid Rain, UPI (Mar. 20, 1984)
- 8.2.2: Obama Preemption Executive Order (May 20, 2009)
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.8: Supplemental Reading
- 12.2.1: State v. Lead Industries Ass'n, 951 A.2d 428 (R.I. 2008) (Track V) (edited)
- 13.1: Introduction
- 14.3: Local v. State Authority
- 14.4.3: SC AG Opinion on Columbia Gun Ordinance (Dec. 3, 2019)
- 14.4.5: OH AG and Columbus locked in court dispute over extent of local firearm authority, Ohio Capital Journal (Jan. 24, 2023)
- 15.1: Introduction
- 15.6: Grand Jury Reports
- 16: Criminal Justice Reform, Police Misconduct, and State Attorneys General
- 18.1: Introduction
- 18.3: Attorney General Charities Authority
- 18.5: Attorney General Non-Profit Cases
- 18.7.1: Prof. David Barron First Circuit confirmation hearing - questions from former Texas SG, Sen. Ted Cruz (Nov. 20, 2013)
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:
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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:
- 3.3.2: 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)
- 6.2.3: Freeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas Co. v. FERC, 962 F.2d 45 (D.C. Cir. 1992) (edited)
- 6.4.2: Deputy TX AG Beats Ethics Claims Over 2020 Election Suit, Law360 (Sept. 20, 2022)
- 6.4.5: Cuomo Files Ethics Complaint Against NY AG, N.Y. Times (Sept. 13, 2022)
- 6.4.6: Fulton County District Attorney Barred From Pursuing Criminal Case Against Trump Ally, N.Y. Times (July 25, 2022)
- 7.3.3: Louisiana v. American Rivers, 142 S. Ct. 1347 (2022) (Stay Order)
- 7.3.5: United States v. Texas, Order denying stay, granting cert. (July 21, 2022)
- 7.4.12: Arizona v. Biden, 31 F.4th 469 (6th Cir. 2022) (Sutton, C.J.) (edited)
- 8.2.3: After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts, N.Y. Times (Sept. 6, 2018)
- 8.2.4: U.S. Dep't of Education Preemption of State School Loan Regulation, 83 Fed. Reg. 10619 (Mar. 12, 2018)
- 8.2.5: Pennsylvania v Navient Corp, 967 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 2020) (edited)
- 8.3.2: OH AG Joins FTC, Other States in Sweep to Squash Illegal Robocalls, OH AG website (July 18, 2023)
- 8.4.6: Stephen Vladek Amicus Brief in United States v. Texas, U.S. Supreme Court (July 13, 2022)
- 10.4: Civil Investigative Demand (CID) Authority
- 10.8.1: TX AG Amazon-Parler CID (Jan. 13, 2021)
- 11.2: Privacy
- 11.3: Antitrust
- 11.4.9: American - JetBlue Antitrust Complaint (Sept. 21, 2021)
- 17: Labor Law Enforcement and State Attorneys General
- 18.2.2: Health of the US Non-Profit Sector, Independent Sector (Oct. 2021) (edited)
- 22: 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
(First published Jan 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 3.3.3: Amicus Memorandum of Former Members of the NH AG Office (May 23, 2011)
- 4: State Attorney General Litigation Control and Structure
- 6: Ethics and State Attorneys General
- 7: Supreme Court and State Attorneys General
- 8: State Attorneys General Relationship with Federal Government
- 10: Consumer Protection and State Attorneys General
- 12.3.1: SC Gov MacMaster Objects to Plutonium Settlement and $75 million legal fees, Charlotte Observer (Aug. 31, 2020)
- 12.3.2: NC AG brings in national law firm for PFAS investigation, Chemours, (Aug. 12, 2020)
- 12.4.2: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Private Attorney General Retention Sunshine Act
- 12.5.1: It's the 90's, Counselor: 'Superfluous' Fees Denied, N.Y. Times (Aug. 14, 1992)
- 12.5.12: NJ AG Procedures for Retaining Outside Counsel
- 13: Multistate Negotiations and State Attorneys General
- 14.2.1: Pew Research Center, What Unites and Divides Urban, Rural and Suburban Communities (May 22, 2018) (edited)
- 14.2.2: How the Urban-Rural Divide Became America’s Political Fault Line, N.Y. Times (May 21, 2019)
- 14.5.2: WV counties, cities seek larger share of potential opioid settlement, Charleston Gazette Mail (Oct. 5, 2019)
- 14.5.5: Ohio Motion to Dismiss Local Lawsuits, In re McKinsey Opiate Consultant Litigation (N.D. Cal. Jan. 3, 2022)
- 15.3.5: Flowers Case Shows How AGs Are Stepping Into The Spotlight, Law360 (Sept. 13, 2020)
- 15.4: Parallel Proceedings
- 15.5: Public Corruption
- 15.6.1: Articles about Pa AG Grand Jury Report on Clergy Abuse (2018 – 2019)
- 15.7: Supplemental Reading
- 16.2.1: DE AG Jennings tells prosecutors to seek lesser prison sentences for some crimes, Delaware News Journal (Feb. 19, 2019)
- 16.3.3: Ohio Supreme Court Executive Summary on Police Lethal Use of Force (2016)
- 16.3.7: A Special Unit to Prosecute Police Killings Has No Convictions, N.Y. Times (Feb. 26, 2021)
- 16.3.9: IL AG makes the case for licensing police officers, Chicago Sun-Times (June 24, 2020)
- 16.3.11: WV AG Letter on Proposed Community Police Review Advisory Board (Sept. 17, 2020)
- 18: Non-Profit Corporations, Charities, Foundations and State Attorneys General
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. 2022
(First published Jan 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 7.3.2: U.S. Attorney General Memo on Nationwide Injunctions (Sept. 2018)
- 7.4: Supplemental Reading
- 8.2: History of Conflict – Inaction v. Preemption
- 8.3: State and Federal Cooperation
- 8.4.4: How States Became a Check on the President, Governing Magazine (Sept. 30, 2021)
- 12.3.3: DeSantis taps D.C. law firm billing $725 an hour to defend culture war laws, Orlando Sentinel (June 17, 2022)
- 14: State Attorneys General Relationship with Local and County Government
- 15.3.6: Heather Cox Richardson, Role of the GA AG in the Arbery Prosecution, Letters from an American (Nov. 26, 2021)
- 16.3.1: What you need to know about the cost of police misconduct, Wash. Post (Mar. 10, 2022)
- 16.3.6: MN county attorneys: State AG office should handle police deadly force cases, MPR News (June 5, 2020)
- 16.3.10: NJ AG releases names of disciplined police officers, MyCentralJersey.com (Aug. 11, 2021)
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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