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08/17/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and a coalition of 17 states filed an amicus brief yesterday in the United States Supreme Court in support of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") and several employees who are alleging violations of their legal rights. In these three consolidated cases -
08/10/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Daniel Doyle (age 68), of West Hartford, CT, was sentenced today, eight months after being found guilty by a Washington County Superior Court jury on all 18 counts charged in the Institute for International Sport embezzlement case. Superior...
08/09/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced today a multistate settlement with the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and its subsidiary, Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Company (collectively "Nationwide"), concerning an October 2012 data breach the company experienced. The settlement...
08/04/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, part of a coalition of 16 Attorneys General, filed a new amicus brief in the Hawaii travel ban litigation, opposing the Trump administration's appeal of the decision by the district court that the ban should not prevent grandparents and other close relatives of...
08/02/2017
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin today commented on the decision by Rhode Island Superior Court Justice Brian P. Stern finding Christian Lepore (age 35), of Richmond, RI, not guilty by reason of insanity in the May 28, 2016 beating death of 62-year-old John O'Neil and the assault of several police...
08/01/2017
Lawsuit Challenges EPA's Illegal One-Year Delay in Protecting Public's Health from Dangerous Smog Pollution In one of the strongest actions against the Trump Administration taken to date, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and 15 other state attorneys general today filed a lawsuit...
07/31/2017
As the news locally of increased energy rates expected this winter, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin urged members of Congress to preserve and expand the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) funding in the 2018 federal budget. ...
07/28/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and a group of 19 other attorneys general U.S. Senate leaders not to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Arbitration Rule, which stops companies from forcing consumers to sign away their legal rights. The House recently passed a Joint...
07/28/2017
In a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin joined attorneys general from several states and the District of Columbia expressing their opposition to the President's ban on transgender people serving in the Armed Forces. In addition to...
07/25/2017
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Rhode Island has joined with other states and the federal government to settle allegations that Celgene Corporation (Celgene) engaged in a variety of marketing schemes to promote the use of its drugs Thalomid and Revlimid for off-label use and by...