by Cobb & Counsel | May 19, 2021 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent Twitter a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) on January 13, 2021, after it banned former President Trump from its platform following the storming of the U.S. Capitol. The Twitter CID, which sought internal communications and the...
by Cobb & Counsel | Feb 11, 2021 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands, Government Investigations and Enforcement Actions
Recently, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken aggressive action against leading tech companies. In December 2020, Paxton brought high-profile antitrust actions against Google and Facebook, alleging the companies have engaged in anticompetitive and monopolistic...
by Cobb & Counsel | Sep 14, 2020 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands
The Office of the Attorney General has power to investigate and prosecute violations of the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act (the “Antitrust Act”), which aims to maintain and promote economic competition, and the Texas Deceptive Trade...
by Cobb & Counsel | May 26, 2020 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands
The Office of the Attorney General has power to investigate and prosecute violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (“DTPA”), which aims to protect consumers from false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices, and...
by Cobb & Counsel | May 22, 2020 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands
When a disaster hits, a surge of price-gouging complaints and investigations usually follow. After Hurricane Harvey, the Texas attorney general received more than 5,000 consumer complaints about gas stations charging exorbitant prices for gas.[1] The attorney...
by Cobb & Counsel | Jun 11, 2019 | Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands
Fighting Medicaid Fraud and Protecting Consumers 2019 has been record-breaking year for the Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Divisions[1] and Consumer Protection Division. Already this year, Attorney General Paxton and his hard-working Assistant Attorneys...
