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The Role of the State Attorney General
(First published Jan 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: The Authority and the Culture of the Office of Attorney General: August 21
- 2: The Structure of the Office of Attorney General: August 28
- 3: The Ethics of Client Representation for State Attorneys General: September 11
- 4: Consumer Protection Part I: September 18
- 6: Criminal Jurisdiction, Criminal Justice Reform, and Public Corruption: October 2
- 7: Multistate Advocacy: October 9
- 10: Relationship with Local and County Government: October 30
- 12: Relationship with the Federal Government: November 13
- 13: Non-Profit Corporations, Charities, and Foundations: November 20
- 14: Supplemental Reading: Retention of Private Counsel by attorneys general
The Role of the State Attorney General incorporates additional material from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School -Spring, 2021 (first published Apr 2025) with contributions from:
- The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School - Fall, 2020 (first published Jun 2024) with contributions from:
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The Role of the State Attorney General - Nicholas Smyth - Spring 2022
(First published Jan 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1.1: History of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
- 1.2: Commonwealth Attorneys Act (1980)
- 3.2: Pa. AG Kathleen Kane still in office despite suspension of law license (2015)
- 3.5: Supplemental Readings
- 4.1: The Pennsylvania Consumer Protection Law
- 4.2: Comm. v. Monumental Properties
- 4.4.1: Comm. v. Snap Finance - Amended Complaint (Dec. 29, 2020)
- 4.4.2: Car Title Lender Cases (PA)
- 5: Consumer Protection Part II: September 25
- 6.5.2: Who investigates police killings in Pennsylvania, and why there are few checks and balances
- 6.6: Supplemental Readings
- 8.2: Navient article: case nearly settled in 2016
- 8.3: Wells Fargo Settlement (PA Press Release)
- 8.4: Santander Settlement (2020 PA Press Release)
- 9.3: Tierney's Role in Tobacco Cases
- 10.3.3: “A Second Pa DA Sues AG Shapiro office over Opioid Settlement, Phil Inquirer, August 2, 2021
- 10.3.4: How Much Each PA County Will Get from the Opioid Settlement
- 10.4: State and Local Divide - COVID-19
- 10.5: Supplemental Readings
- 11: Fair Labor: November 6
- 12.2: Comm. v. Navient - Opposition Brief to Navient's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
- 13.8: Final Simulation (November 20)
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The Role of the State Attorney General - Harvard Law School -Spring, 2021
(First published Apr 2025)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 2.8: Supplemental Readings
- 3.3: Disciplinary Complaint against SC AG Alan Wilson, Office of Disciplinary Counsel, SC, Jan. 12, 2021,
- 4.4.5: AG Racine Sues Washington Sports Club for Charging Gym Members During COVID-19 Shutdown, Aug. 20, 2020
- 6.1.4: St. Louis judge disqualifies Gardner, her office from prosecuting McCloskey gun-waving case | Law and order | stltoday.com - Dec 20, 2020
- 6.1.5: DA, Pa AG create task force - Times Observer - October 24, 2020
- 6.5.1: Flowers Case Shows How AGs Are Stepping Into The Spotlight - Law360 - Sept 13, 2020
- 7.3.1: Honda Will Pay $85 Million in Takata Airbag Settlement (to) a group of U.S. states, Autoweek, August 31, 2020
- 7.3.3: Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 50 AGs Reach $13.5M Settlement with Pharmaceutical Company for Misleading Marketing of Four Drugs – PA Office of Attorney General - Dec 20, 2017
- 8: Multistate Advocacy - Role Playing Hypothetical and Related Articles: October 16
- 9: Tobacco Litigation of the 1990's: October 23
- 10.1.3: Election Showed a Wider Red-Blue Economic Divide - The New York Times - November 12, 2020
- 10.1.4: INTRASTATE PREEMPTION, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 1113
- 10.3.2: Opioid Epidemic Settlement Offer, Worth $26 Billion, Gains Support - The New York Times - Nov. 5, 2020 - Jan Hoffman
- 10.5.2: Columbus And Dayton Sue Ohio Attorney General To Force Fix Of Gun Background Checks – CBS Pittsburgh - Nov. 9, 2020
- 10.5.3: Kansas City Gets 'Creative' With Lawsuit Against Gun Manufacturer | KCUR 89.3 - NPR in Kansas City. Jan 7, 2020
- 10.5.4: States Clash With Cities Over Potential Opioids Settlement Payouts - The New York Times - Aug. 2019 - Jan Hoffman
- 10.5.5: Opioid Settlement Offer Provokes Clash Between States and Cities - The New York Times - March 13, 2020 - Jan Hoffman
- 12.6: GOP Ohio attorney general calls on Trump to postpone Postal Service changes - CBS News - Aug 18, 2020
- 12.9: Bob Ferguson Sued the Trump Administration 82 Times. What's He Going to Do Now? || chronline.com - Seattle Times, Nov. 14, 2020
- 12.10: "State attorneys general have sued Trump's administration 138 times — nearly double those of Obama and Bush" - NBC News, Nov. 16, 2020
- 13.5: "New York's Attorney General Shouldn't Dismantle the NRA," Bloomberg, Noah Feldman, August 6, 2020
- 13.6: "Danger Sign: AG's Succumb to Special Interest Lobbying," Non Profit Quarterly, Rick Cohen October 28, 2014
- 13.7: Buffalo Diocese Accused of Years long Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse - The New York Times - Nov. 23, 2020
- 14.1: After Whistleblowers Left Texas AGO, AG Paxton Hired Costly Outside Counsel for Google Suit, Texas Tribune, January 5, 2021
- 14.2: "SC Gov MacMaster Objects to Plutonium Settlement and $75 million legal fees," Charlotte Observer, August 31, 2020 | H2O
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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall 2021
(First published Aug 2021)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 12.1: Pennsylvania v Navient (3d Cir 2020), July 27, 2020
- 12.5: AG Ferguson: Judge rules national student loan servicer Navient broke the law in servicing student loan debt, March 5, 2021
- 13.3: NY AG Releases Charities Report Finding More Than Two-Thirds of Charitable Campaign Donations Went to Charities While Professional Fundraisers Retained the Rest | Dec 22, 2021
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