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Attorney General Mayes Successfully Resolves Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against Contract Mining Company

PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that the Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General’s Office secured a Consent Decree to successfully resolve a public enforcement discrimination lawsuit against Turner…

Attorney General Mayes Joins Coalition Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Reject the Creation of a Taxpayer-Funded Religious Charter School

PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined 17 attorneys general in filing a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the creation of the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The case, Oklahoma…

Attorney General Mayes Sues Trump Administration to Protect Libraries and Museums

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mayes today joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public…

Attorney General Mayes Sues Trump Administration Over Illegal Funding Cuts and Delays for Medical and Public Health Research

PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts over its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by…

Attorney General Mayes and Secretary of State Fontes Join Multistate Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Unlawful Executive Order Seeking to Impose Sweeping Voting Restrictions

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes today joined a coalition of 19 states in filing a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the federal…

Attorney General Mayes Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Trump Administration for Mass Firings of Federal Probationary Employees

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mayes and a coalition of 20 attorneys general secured a preliminary injunction (PI) in Maryland et al. v. USDA, a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for Maryland suing numerous…

Attorney General Mayes Sues HHS, Sec. Kennedy to Overturn Public Health Grant Cuts

PHOENIX—Attorney General Kris today joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for abruptly and…

Attorney General Mayes Launches Webpage to Report Social Security Disruptions

PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced a new webpage her office is launching to collect reports of Social Security issues.“I am highly concerned that Elon Musk and the Trump Administration will take a wrecking ball…

Attorney General Mayes Warns of Smishing Amid Rise in Scams

PHOENIX – Today, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is warning consumers about common ‘smishing’ scams, or fake text messages fraudsters are using to trick Arizonans into downloading malware, sharing sensitive information,…

Attorney General Mayes Joins Bipartisan Coalition Backing Legislation to Curb Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons

PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined a bipartisan coalition of 30 other attorneys general calling on Congress to pass H.R. 2350 and S. 1137, federal legislation allowing states to deploy…