SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a multistate coalition of attorneys general encouraging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, to affirm a 2021 district court decision rejecting a Second Amendment challenge to a Florida law that prohibits any person under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms and prohibits federally licens  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2024: OAKLAND -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of the state of Michigan in Catholic Charities v. Whitmer, a lawsuit challenging Michigan's ban on licensed health care providers offering conversion therapy for minors. Conversion therapy is a cruel, harmful, and ineffective practice that aims to change  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * What you need to know: Advancing the state's $6 billion effort to build the largest open-access broadband infrastructure network in the nation, the Newsom Administration today announced a major Middle-Mile Broadband groundbreaking in Sacramento County. * * * NATOMAS - Today, the Newsom Administration, local officials, and Arcadian Infracom announced the groundbreaking  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 31 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general filing an amicus brief (https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/ag/press_releases/2024/nra-en-banc-amicus-brief---as-filed.pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit urging that court to affirm the lower court's decision to uphold Florida's law prohibiting individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings On August 27 and 29, the Commission met in executive session. On August 29, the Commission held an open meeting. * * * Advisory Opinions Opinions Issued Advisory Opinion 2024-07 (Team Graham, Inc.) (https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2024-07/) On August 29, the Commission approved an advisory opinion in response to a request from Team Graham, Inc  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Summer Mothwood, of San Francisco, has been appointed Principal Analytics Engineer at the Office of Data and Innovation. Mothwood has been a Customer Relationship Management Data Engineer at the Mozilla Foundation since 2024. She was a Marketing Data Analytics Engineer for the Nature Conservancy from 2022 to 20  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 31 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas, along with a bipartisan coalition of 29 other states, has reached a settlement ending the outstanding damages phase of an unclaimed property dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court. Texas and the other states will take possession of more than $190 million in unclaimed property. In 2023, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court sided with Texas and its coalition partners, holding that unclaimed official ch  more