202107

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich is leading a coalition of attorneys general to hold the Biden Administration accountable for delaying new rules that promote safe drinking water in the United States. The coalition filed a petition for review at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s “Delay Rule” that postpones the Trump Administration’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR).

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant an emergency injunction pending appeal, requiring the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to “normal removal operations” and follow existing federal immigration law and resume deportations.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Mark Brnovich is leading a coalition of 15 states in urging the Biden Administration to reject a plan to reinstate a 2014 discipline policy that brings race-based decision-making into schools’ discipline policies.

PHOENIX --- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that a State Grand Jury indicted Denise Birdwell, Gary Aller, Steven Nielsen, and Kay Hartwell Hunnicutt for their alleged role in the procurement for construction of the Elona Ranch and Sossaman middle schools in Higley Unified School District (HUSD).  
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt are co-leading a coalition of 26 states to protect Americans’ right to self-defense at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The states filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Corlett, urging the justices to declare New York’s subjective-issue firearm license regime unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that his office has filed its brief in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in a consolidated case seeking to preserve the death sentence for Arizona inmate David Ramirez and reinstate the first degree murder conviction of Arizona inmate Barry Jones. The  Attorney General’s Office (AGO) consolidated the defendants' two cases in January 2021.

TUCSON – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today his office has filed a consumer fraud lawsuit alleging that Tucson businesses Deed and Note Traders, LLC and 881 Home, LLC and the manager, David Kinas, (Defendants) deceived consumers in real estate transactions.
 

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Lynwood Jennet was sentenced to two years in state prison for helping her co-defendant, Paul Petersen, run an adoption scheme unlawfully paid for by Arizona taxpayers.

“Today's sentence demonstrates that if you defraud Arizona taxpayers, you will be held accountable,” said Attorney General Mark Brnovich. “This investigation and successful prosecution concludes a model example of how local, state and federal law enforcement agencies can work together to serve their communities.”

What: The Attorney General’s Office, the City of Flagstaff, the Flagstaff Sustainability Program, and the San Francisco de Asis Catholic Parish are hosting a FREE Shred-A-Thon this Saturday, July 17th.

The public can remain in their vehicle during the event, and participants are asked to place documents in the trunk of their vehicle before arriving.

SCOTTSDALE – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that a State Grand Jury has indicted Tracey Kay McKee, of Scottsdale, with one count of Illegal Voting and one count of Perjury, for allegedly casting a vote in the name of a deceased person through an early ballot in the 2020 General Election.