Office of the Texas Attorney General
81 cases • 8 attorneys
Attorneys
Aaron Lloyd Nielson
(43)
Lanora Christine Pettit
(36)
William Robert Peterson
(8)
Kyle Douglas Hawkins
(4)
Charles Kenneth Eldred
(1)
Jennifer Wissinger
(1)
Judd Edward Stone II
(1)
William Francis Cole
(1)
Cases
| Case | Title | Docketed | Type | Status | Party | Attorneys |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-845 | Greg Abbott, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Appellants v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. | 2026-01-15 | Paid | Pending | Greg Abbott, et al. | William Robert Peterson |
| 25-765 | Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. | 2025-12-30 | Paid | Pending | States of Texas, Alabama, et al. | William Robert Peterson |
| 25A608 | Greg Abbott, et al. v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. | 2025-11-21 | A | Application | Greg Abbott, et al. | William Robert Peterson |
| 25-465 | Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission | 2025-10-16 | Paid | Pending | Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | William Robert Peterson |
| 25-233 | Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department | 2025-08-28 | Paid | Denied | Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, And West Virginia | William Robert Peterson |
| 25-5183 | Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas | 2025-07-23 | IFP | Denied | Texas | William Robert Peterson |
| 25-29 | Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. | 2025-07-09 | Paid | Pending | State of Texas | William Robert Peterson |
| 24-7194 | Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas | 2025-05-13 | IFP | Denied | Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-1021 | Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation | 2025-03-25 | Paid | Granted | Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming, The State of Texas, The States of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, William Robert Peterson |
| 24-964 | John O'Bannon, Chairman of the State Board of Elections for the Commonwealth of Virginia, et al. v. Tati Abu King, et al. | 2025-03-07 | Paid | Denied | States of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-920 | Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines | 2025-02-26 | Paid | Pending | Keith Pardue, et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-803 | Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission | 2025-01-28 | Paid | Denied | Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-6403 | Brian Dale Nixon v. Texas | 2025-01-28 | IFP | Denied | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, William Francis Cole |
| 24A613 | Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines | 2024-12-19 | A | Presumed Complete | Keith Pardue, et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-6057 | Luis Alfredo Aparicio v. Texas | 2024-12-03 | IFP | Denied | Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24-465 | Texas, et al. v. Jerry Black, et al. | 2024-10-24 | Paid | GVR | Texas, et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-437 | Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | 2024-10-18 | Paid | GVR | States of Texas and Twenty Additional States | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24-433 | Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. | 2024-10-17 | Paid | GVR | State of Texas and the Texas Racing Commission | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-429 | Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. | 2024-10-16 | Paid | GVR | State of Texas and the Texas Racing Commission | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24A287 | Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. | 2024-09-23 | A | Presumed Complete | State of Texas and the Texas Racing Commission | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-316 | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. | 2024-09-19 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Texas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-232 | Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. | 2024-08-30 | Paid | Denied | Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-219 | In Re Warren Petersen, et al. | 2024-08-28 | Paid | Denied | State of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24-220 | Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State v. Montana Democratic Party, et al. | 2024-08-28 | Paid | Denied | Texas and Fourteen Additional States | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24A173 | Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | 2024-08-13 | A | Presumed Complete | Texas, Alaska, and South Carolina | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 24-45 | Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. | 2024-07-16 | Paid | Denied | Intervenor - State of Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24A11 | Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. | 2024-07-09 | A | Presumed Complete | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24-19 | James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal | 2024-07-09 | Paid | Denied | Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, And Virginia | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1351 | Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas | 2024-06-27 | Paid | Denied | Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1345 | Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2024-06-26 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Jennifer Wissinger, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1312 | Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas, et al. | 2024-06-14 | Paid | Judgment Issued | State of Texas, Greg Abbott, and TCEQ, Texas, Greg Abbott, and TCEQ | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1300 | Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al. | 2024-06-12 | Paid | Judgment Issued | State of Texas, Greg Abbott, and TCEQ | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1248 | Keresa Richardson v. Texas, et al. | 2024-05-28 | Paid | Denied | The State of Texas, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1239 | Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. | 2024-05-24 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Texas, et al., The States of Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23A986 | Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. | 2024-05-03 | A | Presumed Complete | Harris County, Texas, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1155 | Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. | 2024-04-24 | Paid | GVR | Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-7249 | Robert Gandy v. Glenn Hegar, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts | 2024-04-17 | IFP | Denied | Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1122 | Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | 2024-04-16 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23A925 | Free Speech Coalition, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | 2024-04-16 | A | Presumed Complete | Ken Paxton, In His Official Capacity As Attorney General For The State Of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1105 | National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. | 2024-04-11 | Paid | Denied | Steven McCraw and Dwight Mathis | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1076 | Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. | 2024-04-03 | Paid | Denied | Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-1011 | Philip C. James, et al. v. Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacities as Comptroller of Texas, Chairman of the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, and Administrator of Texas Unclaimed Property Funds, et al. | 2024-03-14 | Paid | Denied | Glenn Allen Hagar, Jr., et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-1004 | Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2024-03-13 | Paid | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23A820 | Spectrum WT, et al. v. Walter Wendler, et al. | 2024-03-06 | A | Presumed Complete | Walter Wendler | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23A814 | United States v. Texas, et al. | 2024-03-04 | A | Presumed Complete | the State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23A815 | Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. | 2024-03-04 | A | Presumed Complete | the State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-934 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | 2024-02-27 | Paid | Denied | Correctional Institutions Division of The Texas Department of Criminal Justice | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-861 | Nick Feliciano v. Department of Transportation | 2024-02-12 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Texas, et al., Texas, South Carolina, 18 Other States, and the District of Columbia | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-6451 | Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2024-01-10 | IFP | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23A607 | Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas | 2024-01-02 | A | Presumed Complete | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-635 | Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2023-12-13 | Paid | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-612 | Joseph Daniel Cascino, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State | 2023-12-07 | Paid | Denied | Jane Nelson | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-593 | S. O. v. Jay Hartzell, President, University of Texas at Austin, et al. | 2023-12-05 | Paid | Denied | Jay Hartzell, et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-592 | K. E. v. Denise M. Trauth, President, Texas State University, et al. | 2023-12-04 | Paid | Denied | Denise Trauth, et al. | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-535 | Jillian Ostrewich v. Teneshia Hudspeth, in Her Official Capacity as Harris County Clerk, et al. | 2023-11-20 | Paid | Denied | Jane Nelson in her official capacity as Secretary of State of Texas; Ken Paxton, in his official capacity as Attorney General of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 23-477 | United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. | 2023-11-06 | Paid | Judgment Issued | State of Texas | Charles Kenneth Eldred |
| 23-5767 | Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2023-10-12 | IFP | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-97 | Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. | 2023-08-02 | Paid | Denied | Judge Ernest White, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-93 | Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. | 2023-08-01 | Paid | Denied | Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 23-39 | Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | 2023-07-14 | Paid | Denied | John Scott, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-7466 | Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma | 2023-05-04 | IFP | Judgment Issued | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 22-1025 | Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. | 2023-04-24 | Paid | Judgment Issued | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson |
| 22-7301 | Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2023-04-17 | IFP | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin | Judd Edward Stone II, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-913 | Richard Devillier, et al. v. Texas | 2023-03-20 | Paid | Judgment Issued | State of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-842 | National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo | 2023-03-06 | Paid | Judgment Issued | The States of Texas and Indiana | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-809 | Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. | 2023-02-27 | Paid | Denied | Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-756 | Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith | 2023-02-10 | Paid | Denied | Lannette Linthicum, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-611 | Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed | 2023-01-04 | Paid | Judgment Issued | The State of Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-601 | Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. | 2022-12-30 | Paid | Denied | Chairman Peter Lake, Public Utility Commission of Texas, in his Official Capacity, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-555 | NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | 2022-12-19 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Angela Colmenero, in her Official Capacity as Provisional Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-324 | Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. | 2022-10-06 | Paid | Judgment Issued | The State of Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 22-136 | Roy Charles Brooks, et al., Appellants v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | 2022-08-11 | Paid | Denied | Greg Abbott, et al. | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 20-1669 | Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2021-06-01 | Paid | Denied | Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 20-493 | Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, et al. v. Texas | 2020-10-15 | Paid | Judgment Issued | Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 19-336 | Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2019-09-12 | Paid | Denied | Lorie Davis | Kyle Douglas Hawkins |
| 18-6741 | Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | 2018-11-20 | IFP | Denied | Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division | Kyle Douglas Hawkins |
| 18-622 | Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. | 2018-11-14 | Paid | Denied | Charles Smith | Kyle Douglas Hawkins |
| 18-484 | Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas | 2018-10-16 | Paid | Denied | State of Texas | Kyle Douglas Hawkins |
| 22O141 | Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico and Colorado | 2013-01-10 | Invalid case number | Pending | Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Lanora Christine Pettit |
| 24A542 | Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | A | Presumed Complete | Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Aaron Lloyd Nielson | |
| 23A1169 | Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas | A | Presumed Complete | Texas | Lanora Christine Pettit |