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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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U.S. Supreme Court hears emergency stay of EPA ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ rule

By Chris Dickerson |
WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a potential stay related to the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor Plan.”

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Morrisey part of coalition asking Supreme Court to pause ruling on Trump immunity in election case

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a coalition of 22 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a request to pause the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in former President Donald Trump’s immunity case on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results.

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State officials hail JPMorgan, State Street decisions to leave ESG investment group

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Treasurer Riley Moore are praising JPMorgan Chase and State Street Corporation after the fund companies decided to withdraw from the largest investor coalition he says is focused on “convincing the corporate world to act on climate change.”

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Morrisey urges Harris to invoke 25th Amendment because of Biden’s 'profound cognitive decline'

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is urging Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke her powers under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and declare President Joe Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

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Morrisey says U.S. Supreme Court needs to ensure Trump remains on ballot

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey again is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of allowing former President Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in Colorado.

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Bipartisan robocall task force warns of suspected election scam AI robocallers

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and 50 other attorneys general on the nationwide bipartisan Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force have sent a warning letter to a company that allegedly sent New Hampshire residents scam election robocalls during the New Hampshire primary election.

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Morrisey co-leads letter to Biden, Energy Department about LNG pause

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading a coalition of 22 states in a letter urging President Joe Biden and the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy to end the administration’s pause on exports of liquefied natural gas.

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Morrisey writes letter opposing Biden's pick to lead EPA air office

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is opposing President Joe Biden's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's air office.

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Morrisey urges Biden to ‘support rather than obstruct’ Texas push to secure border

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wrote a letter to President Joe Biden urging his administration to allow Texas’s efforts to secure portions of the U.S. border with Mexico to continue.

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Morrisey raises issues with Biden over push for electric vehicles

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has written a letter to President Joe Biden raising concerns about “pushing a massive and hasty shift to EVs (electric vehicles), through tax credits for upper-class buyers, billions in new spending, and oppressive new agency rules.”

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Three other states, D.C., DOJ join NCAA transfer rule case

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — Three other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Department of Justice have joined a bipartisan multistate coalition in a lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s Transfer Eligibility Rule.

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Morrisey, other AGs ask U.S. Supreme Court to reverse Colorado Trump ballot disqualification

By Chris Dickerson |
WASHINGTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading an amicus brief with Indiana asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision from Colorado that kept former President Donald Trump off the ballot for that state’s presidential primary ballot.

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Morrisey, others ask appeals court to declare new EPA clean air rule unlawful

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office is co-leading a coalition of 25 states in a petition asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule unlawful.

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Morrisey leads brief asking U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump ballot case

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading an amicus brief asking the U.S.

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Morrisey leads brief supporting parents’ rights in Maryland case

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court supporting parents’ rights and opposing the Maryland county school board’s inclusion of a Parental Preclusion Policy in its “Guidelines for Student Gender Identity.”

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W.Va. legal reform group, AG continue to spar over outside counsel fees

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON – A legal reform group is criticizing Attorney General Patrick Morrisey for his office’s use of outside counsel, saying personal injury lawyers are being paid “hundreds of millions of dollars from government lawsuits.”

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State AG, Auditor partner to ensure opioid settlement money used properly

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office is partnering with state Auditor J.B. McCuskey’s office to supplement efforts to ensure opioid settlement money is used for intended purposes.

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AGs announce $700M settlement with Google over Play Store misconduct

By Chris Dickerson |
CHARLESTON — A bipartisan group of attorneys general have announced a $700 million settlement with Google in a lawsuit about the company's anticompetitive conduct with the Google Play Store.