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California attorney general sued over outsourcing of climate-change litigation to private attorneys
Tensions between the California Attorney General’s Office and the office’s rank-and-file attorneys surfaced last month with the filing of a lawsuit challenging the office’s 2023 decision to hire outside counsel for climate-change litigation. -
CA A/G Bonta threatens hospitals for complying with Trump's order blocking child gender transition procedures
Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a letter to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and issued a public statement threatening state action vs hospitals and other medical providers who comply with President Trump's order forbidding federal funding and directing federal action vs those providing child gender transition procedures -
Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order Targeting the LGBTQ+ Community
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the followed statement regarding President Trump’s recent executive order that targets the LGBTQ+ community. -
Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement on Governor Newsom’s Executive Order Banning Evictions Based on Hosting Survivors
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement on Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order that bans evictions based on hosting survivors. -
Attorney General Bonta Issues Consumer Alert on Price Gouging Following State of Emergency Declaration in Los Angeles County
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a consumer alert following the Governor’s declaration of a state of emergency in response to the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County. -
Former physician, medical center agree to pay $15 million in Medicare false claims case
A former Van Nuys doctor, his wife, a medical center and a laboratory have agreed to pay $15 million to settle allegations of filing false Medicare and Medi-Cal claims linked to kickbacks and illegal patient referrals. -
Exxon: CA A/G Bonta, enviro activists conspired with foreign 'green energy' interests in plastic recycling suits
ExxonMobil has sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental activist organizations, accusing them of working with an anti-oil Australian billionaire to launch a coordinated "lawfare" campaign against ExxonMobil, including recent lawsuits over Exxon's 'advanced recycling' programs -
Medical clinic lawsuit: Bonta attacking women's right to obtain abortion pill reversal
A Southern California Catholic medical clinic has filed a countersuit against the state’s attorney general, accusing Rob Bonta of unlawfully prohibiting advocacy groups from informing women about a procedure called abortion pill reversal (APR). -
Attorney General Bonta: Today’s SCOTUS Decision Holds the Sackler Family Accountable for Their Role in Fueling the Opioid Epidemic
California Attorney General Rob Bonta released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down confirmation of Purdue Pharma L.P.’s (Purdue) bankruptcy plan in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, finding that nonconsensual third-party releases are not authorized under the Bankruptcy Code. -
Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement After CFPB Win: A Big Day for Consumer Protection
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today released the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding structure as constitutional and protected its past and ongoing regulatory actions in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA). -
Attorney General Bonta, District Attorney Stephan Announce Sentencing of Travel Agent for Embezzling Funds from School Trips Canceled Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan announced that defendant Marie Martin, a San Diego-based travel agent and registered seller of travel, was sentenced to six months of home confinement and six months of felony probation for embezzling travel funds from more than 150 parents who paid for eighth-grade school trips to the East Coast. -
Attorney General Bonta to Congressional Leaders: Federal Data Privacy Law Should Set a Floor, Not a Ceiling
California Attorney General Rob Bonta led a multistate coalition of 15 attorneys general urging congressional leaders to remove preemption language in the current draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), a proposed federal data privacy bill. -
California officials enter overdose-treatment drug deal with company that had faced opioid claims
A pharmaceutical company that has been accused of profiting from the sale of opioids is poised to enter into a decade-long agreement with California officials to provide emergency medicine for the treatment of opioid overdoses. -
Attorney General Bonta Announces Arrest and Charges Filed Against a Former Solano State Prison Correctional Officer
California Attorney General Rob Bonta \announced the arrest and felony charges filed against a former Solano State Prison Correctional Officer. -
Second Amendment rights group sues California over restriction on out-of-state residents carrying guns
A gun owners rights advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit against California’s attorney general in an effort to challenge a state law that is “unconstitutionally restrictive” and offers no avenue for out-of-state residents in California to carry firearms in public. -
Attorney General Bonta, San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force Announce Results of the Second Annual Operation Better Pathways
As part of a joint investigation through the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force (SDHTTF), California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the results of Operation Better Pathways. -
Attorney General Bonta Holds Recycling Fraud Suspects Accountable, Five Managers Ordered to Pay a Total of $140.5 Million in Restitution and Fines
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with CalRecycle Director Rachel Machi Wagoner, announced that five managers of Recycling Services Alliance, Inc. (RSA), who together carried out a recycling fraud scheme in Sacramento County, have been ordered to pay a total of $140.5 million total criminal restitution and administrative fines for the purpose of replenishing the money stolen from the California Refund Value (CRV) Fund. -
Attorney General Bonta Urges Immediate Action by Meta to Prevent Account Takeovers
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys general, today sent a letter to Meta expressing deep concern regarding the increase in account takeovers and lockouts on Facebook and Instagram and the inadequacy of the company’s response to prevent and address consumer harm from these takeovers. -
Families circulate California ballot petitions to hold fentanyl dealers accountable
Signature gathering is underway for a new ballot measure that would make fentanyl dealers accountable for their crimes while saving people from a drug that has become a leading cause of overdose deaths. -
Attorney General Bonta Joins National Fight for Commonsense Gun Laws
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed a brief in support of a federal law that prohibits firearms dealers from selling handguns and handgun ammunition to persons under the age of 21.