HARRISBURG―Attorney General Josh Shapiro and a coalition of 16 Attorneys General, led by Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul, today urged President Trump to fully utilize the Defense Production Act so the production of masks, respirators, and other critical items needed by healthcare workers, first responders, and law enforcement across the United States can be prioritized.
HARRISBURG – The declaration by President Trump that the national opioid epidemic is a public health emergency is a step in the right direction for our country. As this epidemic claimed the lives of over 64,000 Americans and more than 4,600 Pennsylvanians last year, we need the federal government’s help and support on multiple fronts. […]
HARRISBURG – The declaration by President Trump that the national opioid epidemic is a public health emergency is a step in the right direction for our country. As this epidemic claimed the lives of over 64,000 Americans and more than 4,600 Pennsylvanians last year, we need the federal government’s help and support on multiple fronts. […]
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro is calling for the Trump Administration to stop the implementation of a proposed rule that would strip workers of key protections provided under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed suit today with 18 other Attorneys General to stop U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from eliminating critical protections for students considering enrolling in for-profit colleges and vocational schools.
HARRISBURG―Attorney General Shapiro today announced that his Office will present oral arguments telephonically to the United States Supreme Court on May 6, 2020, to continue to protect women’s right to access birth control under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
HARRISBURG—Attorney General Josh Shapiro today filed a lawsuit in a coalition of five Attorneys General challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds Final Rule, known as the “Public Charge Rule.” The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that the Rule targets working, legal immigrants and their families by creating unnecessary new barriers to lawful admission to the United States.
HARRISBURG – “Over the past several months, I have joined with campus safety advocates to express serious concerns about Secretary DeVos and the Department of Education’s plans to protect students on campus. While today’s proposal incorporates a few of the positive changes we fought for, the rules released today remain fundamentally flawed and are a step backward.”
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro tonight issued the following statement on a federal judge’s rejection of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Association Health Plan Rule that sought to expand the criteria for forming health plans for the purpose of evading consumer protections and undermining the Affordable Care Act.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s Association Health Plan Rule, which expands the criteria for forming health plans for the purpose of evading consumer protections and undermining the Affordable Care Act. These kinds of health plans have a history and are prone to fraud, mismanagement, and abuse, with millions in unpaid claims for policyholders and providers, often leading to consumer bankruptcies.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that his office filed an amended lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the Trump Administration challenging the federal government’s final religious and moral exemption rules limiting mandated contraceptive care. Attorney General Shapiro also announced that New Jersey and its Attorney General Gurbir Grewal joined Pennsylvania in filing the amended lawsuit. The government’s final rules are set to take effect in January 2019.
PHILADELPHIA —Attorney General Josh Shapiro was joined by Governor Tom Wolf to announce he filed a lawsuit today along with 14 other states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to delay implementing a rule to reduce levels of ground-level ozone or smog — critical to protecting Pennsylvanians and Americans from dangerous pollution. A recent New York […]
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced that Pennsylvania led a 19-state coalition to oppose a U.S. Department of Labor’s proposal that could expose millions of American workers to labor law violations and leave them without the ability to sue employers who commit those violations. The comment letter challenges the new rule that would complicate how states enforce labor laws and leave millions of workers vulnerable to labor violations.
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has won a federal court ruling requiring the Department of Energy to issue national energy efficiency standards – an important victory for environmental protection expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 99 million tons – the equivalent to taking 21 million cars off the road for a year.
HARRISBURG — Following a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, joined by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, a U.S. District Court Judge today issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration from implementing new religious and moral exemption rules that would allow virtually any company to deny women health insurance coverage for no-cost contraception.
Coalition Releases Open Letter to International Community Pledging Support for Climate Action HARRISBURG– Following President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Attorney General Josh Shapiro today joined with 19 Attorneys General in a broad coalition with governors, mayors, business leaders and universities pledging to maintain […]
Five AGs Join Together to Challenge Trump Administration’s Illegal Delay of Rules to Reduce Emissions and Save Money for Consumers HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that he filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to protect the environment by enforcing a rule that promotes stricter federal fuel efficiency standards. Shapiro joined the […]
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed an amicus brief on behalf of a coalition of 17 Attorneys General to support a lawsuit by Massachusetts challenging the Trump administration’s decision to roll back a requirement under the Affordable Care Act that employers include contraceptive coverage for women in their health insurance plans.
“The Supreme Court made clear today that DACA is the law of the land. Dreamers are Americans. I fought hard in court to protect the 5,900 remarkable young people across Pennsylvania from the discriminatory ambitions of the Trump Administration. The emotional roller coaster the Administration has put these Dreamers on was wrong but today they received justice. The Trump Administration’s arbitrary and cynical reversal of DACA was illegal — and this decision affirms that.”
AG Shapiro is releasing the statement below following The Supreme Court’s decision in PA v. Trump, a case focused on broad exemptions allowing employers to dictate women’s access to contraception. The rules set forth by the Trump Administration will be remanded to the lower courts for a decision on their arbitrary and capricious nature.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to finance a wall on the United States’ southern border.
Attorney General Shapiro: “I’m suing to make the Trump Administration follow the law and protect our environment.” HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro is suing the U.S. Department of Energy over its failure to finalize energy-use standards designed to save consumers and businesses billions of dollars, conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The energy-use […]
HARRISBURG—Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul today led a coalition of nine attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to stop the last ditch effort by the Trump Administration to allow employers to withhold tips from their employees.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro led multi-state effort to oppose federal order. HARRISBURG — Seventeen Attorneys General issued a joint statement today that “condemns” as “un-American” the executive order signed by President Trump. The rapid-response, multi-state effort was lead in part by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The statement is: “As the chief legal officers for […]
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that a coalition of 21 state Attorneys General have filed an amicus brief in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in support of a lawsuit brought by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey asking the courts to stop the Trump Administration from rolling back the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers provide contraceptive care coverage in their health insurance plans.
HARRISBURG — Today, Attorney General Josh Shapiro and a coalition of 17 other Attorneys General, six cities, and the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors filed a lawsuit to block the Trump Administration from demanding citizenship information in the 2020 decennial Census.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro, in a comment letter filed today, urged swift action on a new federal proposal aimed at better protecting workers and ensuring greater accountability in the workplace. AG Shapiro joined his fellow attorneys general in supporting the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposed rule regarding standards for determining whether an entity qualifies as a joint employer. The NLRB’s current proposal would rescind and replace a 2020 final rule that took effect during the Trump Administration, which unlawfully shielded companies from liability and exposed millions of workers to harmful and unfair labor practices. In contrast, the current proposal seeks to hold companies accountable and returns the joint employer standard to one that better reflects contemporary employment relationships in the 21st century.
HARRISBURG—Attorney General Josh Shapiro led a coalition of nine attorneys general in praising the Department of Labor’s new Tip Regulation, dismissing their lawsuit and ending the fight to overturn the Trump Administration’s harmful rule. Under the new regulation, tipped workers can only be paid the tipped minimum wage when the vast majority of their work generates tips, helping protect them from exploitation and wage theft.
HARRISBURG―Attorney General Josh Shapiro today stepped up to defend survivors, schools, and universities from new Title IX regulations published by the Trump Administration. Shapiro’s action ― which he is co-leading with New Jersey, California, and 17 other Attorneys General ― is designed to stop these rules from weakening protections for sexual assault and harassment victims, and block the creation of inequitable disciplinary proceedings from kindergarten through college.
AG Shapiro Leads Coalition of 17 AGs Calling on Trump Administration to Implement Rule that Would Require Airlines to Disclose Fees to Consumers Throughout the Booking
