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Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Secures $100,000 for Retired Teacher Scammed Out of Her Home

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Files Brief Opposing Abbott's Attempt to Remove Elected State Representative

Statement from Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee on EPA Administrator Ending Solar for All Program Funding

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Condemns EPA Move to Roll Back Climate Protections

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to Supreme Court Decision Allowing Trump Administration's Unlawful Federal Government Reorganization to Continue

Harris County Attorney Menefee Responds to Supreme Court Decision Rejecting ExxonMobil Appeal in Baytown Pollution Case

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Nationwide Injunctions

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Joins Amicus Brief Opposing NIH Cuts to Critical Medical Research Funding

Federal Court Sides with Harris County in Lawsuit Over Illegal Elimination of Public Health Funds

Judge Temporarily Blocks Attorney General’s Rule After Challenge from Harris County and Other Texas Counties

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Joins Amicus Brief Suing Department of Justice Over Funding Cuts

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Sues Individuals for Fraudulent Property Scheme in Trinity Gardens Neighborhood

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Harris County, Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration’s Federal Layoffs

Harris County Officials Announce Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Federal Workforce Cuts

Harris County Attorney Sues Trump Administration Over Illegal Elimination of Public Health Funds

Statement from Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee on Deputy Constable Sheila Jones

Harris County Lawsuit Forces Trump Administration to Restore Refugee Health Funds

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Sues Houston Couple for Forgery Scheme, Stealing Over 35 Properties

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Files Lawsuit Against Concrete Batch Plant in Local Neighborhood

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Joins Supreme Court Amicus Brief to Protect Federal Workforce and Public Safety

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Stands with Local Governments Nationwide to Protect Medicaid Patients’ Reproductive Rights

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Sues Concrete Batch Plant for Repeated Safety Violations

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Joins National Legal Fight Against Mass Firing of Federal Workers

Harris County Attorney Menefee Statement on the Passing of Congressman Sylvester Turner

Trump’s Order Doesn’t Bar Harris County From Serving Residents in Multiple Languages

Harris County Attorney Urges Residents to Attend EPA Meeting on Soil Contamination

Statement from Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Regarding Cancer Rates in Eastern Harris County

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Sues Fraudulent Home Improvement Company

HCAO warns residents of text scam involving unpaid tolls

Harris County Joins National Effort to Block Trump Cuts Impacting Funding to Texas Medical Center

Union Pacific’s Testing Reveals Toxic Chemicals at Fifth Ward Community Center

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee Takes Legal Action Against Wastewater Facility for Water Quality Violations

HCAO Response to Rescission of Trump Federal Funding Freeze

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Joins National Effort to Block Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

Harris County Attorney Condemns Federal Funds Freeze, Considers Legal Action

HCAO Response to Potential Overhaul of FEMA

Applications for Summer Legal Academy Now Open

Statement by Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee on Executive Orders Signed by President Trump

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee To Be Sworn In to Second Term

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Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Sues Company Over Consumer Fraud Scheme

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Launches New Consumer Protection Initiative: Stay Scam Free in Harris County

Harris County Attorney Secures $50,000 Payment in Second Price Gouging Lawsuit From Hurricane Beryl

Harris County Secures Historic 1,137-Acre Expansion of Armand Bayou Nature Center

Harris County Secures Legal Win Over Community Prosperity Program

Gas Station Sued For Price Gouging During Hurricane Beryl To Pay $50,000 Penalty

Harris County Launches First Public Probate Administrator’s Office to Protect Residents from Fraud and Exploitation

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to New Lawsuit Over Harris County Guaranteed Income Program

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on the Killing of Dallas Police Officer Darron Burks

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Settlement with Arkema to Improve Safety and Community Protection

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Supports Immigrants Rights Group Against Texas Attorney General Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Files Lawsuits Against Two Gas Stations for Price Gouging During Hurricane Beryl

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on President Biden's New Immigration Policy

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Texas Supreme Court’s Ruling Blocking Uplift Harris Program

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Petitions TCEQ to Follow Federal Air Quality Laws

Harris County Sues Texas Environmental Agency Over Concrete Plant Near LBJ Hospital

Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Harris County Guaranteed Income Pilot Program

Harris County Selected as Solar For All Grant Recipient

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Uplift Harris Ruling

Harris County Takes Legal Action in Opposition to State of Texas Over Air Quality Standards

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Uplift Harris Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Appeals Court SB 4 Ruling

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on SB4 Ruling

Harris County Attorney Sues Texas’ Environmental Agency Over New Rules

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to New Federal Air Quality Standards

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Continues Legal Advocacy for Abortion Access

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Lawsuit Against Area Apartment Complex

TCEQ Strengthens Concrete Batch Plant Permit After Harris County Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Takes Legal Action Against North Houston Concrete Batch Plant

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Joins Legal Fight in Arkansas Voting Rights Case

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Anti-Immigrant Bill SB 4

Harris County Attorney Menefee Announces Settlement against Cigarette Companies in Vaping Case

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Files Legal Brief Supporting Abortion Access

Texas Supreme Court Denies Harris County’s Request for Emergency Relief in Election Case

Harris County Seeks Emergency Order From Texas Supreme Court Over Election Law

Harris County Wins Court Order Temporarily Blocking Abolishment of Elections Office

Harris County Attorney Menefee Announces Settlement in Volkswagen Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Developments Related to Union Pacific Railroad Site

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Supports EPA’s “Good Neighbor Plan” in Amicus Brief Filing

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Legal Challenge to New Texas Election Law

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Consumer Fraud Investigation into Patriot Title

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Governor Abbott Signing Harris County Election Laws

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Summer Legal Academy Students

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement Named Ally Grand Marshal for Houston Pride Parade

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Volkswagen Settlement

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces County Will Sue Texas Over Election Bills

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Texas Legislature’s Initial Approval of Voting Restrictions

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Unauthorized Release of Children’s Medical Information

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Bill To Overturn Harris County Election Results

Harris County Attorney Menefee Files Legal Brief In Support of Texas Trans Youth

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Mifepristone Ruling

Texas Comptroller Rescinds His Defunding Determination Against Harris County

Harris County Attorney Menefee Pushes for EPA to Strengthen Air Quality Standards

Court Temporarily Blocks Comptroller Hegar’s Erroneous Defunding Determination Against Harris County

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Federal Agreement Regarding NHHIP

City of Houston and Harris County Statements on EPA Order for Union Pacific Contamination Cleanup

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to Texas Comptroller

Harris County Attorney Announces Legal Action Against Landfill Expansion

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Settlement of JUUL Lawsuit

Harris County to Sue Texas Comptroller Over Erroneous Defunding Claims

Harris County Attorney Menefee Opens Applications for 2nd High School Summer Legal Academy

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Appointed to EPA Local Government Advisory Committee

Harris County Attorney Menefee Files Student Debt Relief Brief in US Supreme Court

Harris County Adopts New Construction Worker Safety Policy

Additional Losing Candidates File Election Contests in Harris County

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Election Contest Announcement

Harris County Attorney Statement on North Houston Highway Improvement Project

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Appointment of Judge Dana Douglas to Fifth Circuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on District Judge Election Contest

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on District 135 Election Contest

Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library Celebrates National Adoption Month

County and City Leaders Request Federal Monitors for November 2022 Election in Harris County

Harris County Attorney Responds to Confidential Election Ballot Requests

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Win in 10% Bail Bond Rule Case

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces EPA Investigation Into TCEQ Concrete Plant Permitting

Harris County Attorney and City of Houston Take Action Against Union Pacific

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Texas Abortion Ban Ruling

Harris County Court Blocks Enforcement of Pre-Roe Laws

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Supreme Court Overturning Roe

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Dismissal of Redistricting Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Secures Victory in Lawsuit Against Cement Facility

Harris County Attorney Christian D Menefee Statement on Uvalde Shooting

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Responds to Election Day Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Introduces Regulations for Resale of Catalytic Converters

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Roe v Wade

Harris County Attorney Successfully Defends 10% Bail Bond Premium

Harris County Attorney Names New Director of the Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library

Nearly 300 Black Attorneys in Texas Announce Support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation to Supreme Court

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Parents of Transgender Children

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Introduces Harris County Women’s Commission

The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Opens Applications for Inaugural Summer Legal Academy

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee's Statement on Supreme Court Nomination

Harris County Attorney Menefee Responds to Governor Abbott’s and General Paxton’s New Policy Banning Healthcare For Transgender Children

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Statement on Fifth Circuit Ruling

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Wins Court Order Temporarily Banning Enforcement of Part of Texas Voting Restrictions Law

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Continues Legal Fight Against SB1

Harris County Adopts “Ban the Box” Policy Championed by County Attorney Christian D. Menefee

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Continues Fight Against Voting Bill SB 1

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Introduces First County Database Cataloguing Commissioners Court Orders & County Policies

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on U. S. Supreme Court’s Refusal to Halt Texas’s Abortion Ban

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on the Guilty Verdicts in the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Texas Supreme Court Denies Texas Governor and Attorney General Injunction in Harris County Mask Mandate Case

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Settlement of Opioid Case Against Johnson & Johnson

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee files a lawsuit on behalf of Harris County against the TCEQ, challenging an amendment to the commission’s Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee files a lawsuit on behalf of Harris County against the TCEQ, challenging an amendment to the commission’s Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee and 80 Elected Attorneys and Law Enforcement Leaders Tell Supreme Court to Block Texas Abortion Law in DOJ Lawsuit

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Executive Order Banning Coronavirus Vaccine Mandates

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Sends Demand for Documents to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office Regarding its “Audit” of the 2020 Election

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Texas Officials’ Audit of the 2020 Election

Travis County Court Grants Temporary Injunction in Favor of Harris County in Mask Mandate Lawsuit

Texas Attorney General Admits He Cannot Enforce Governor’s Mask Mandate Prohibition

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Files Amicus Brief in Texas Supreme Court Cases Related to Local Mask Mandates

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Wins Temporary Restraining Order to Halt Governor Abbott’s Executive Order in Harris County

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Obtains Authorization to Challenge the Texas Governor’s COVID-19 Executive Order

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Appointment of Audrie Lawton-Evans for Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 1

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement Supporting Local Leaders Heightened Safety Measures to Stop the Spread of COVID-19

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Urges Residents to Give TxDOT Feedback on I-45 Expansion and the Unified Transportation Project

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on La Porte Chemical Incident

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Advocates for EPA to Strengthen Chemical Disaster Regulations after Trump Administration Rollbacks

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on TxDOT Reopening NHHIP Public Comment

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Challenges Union Pacific’s Proposed Plan to Clean Up Contamination near 5th Ward Cancer Cluster

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Pride Month

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Abortion Bill Signed into Law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Secures $900,000 Settlement from ITC Due to an Explosion at Its Deer Park Facility

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on the Guilty Verdict in the Trial for Derek Chauvin

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Files a Lawsuit to Stop E-Cigarette Company JUUL from Targeting Teens with Deceptive Marketing

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Files Lawsuit Demanding TxDOT Properly Consider How Expanding I-45 Will Impact Local Communities

Harris County Files Amicus Brief with the Texas Supreme Court Opposing Sovereign Immunity for ERCOT

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Testified to State Legislators, Advocating for More Local Autonomy to Hold Price Gougers Accountable

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee’s Statement on Attorney General’s Lawsuit Against Griddy

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Launches Civil Investigation into the Electricity Disaster, ERCOT, and Related Agencies, and Seeks Authority to Take Legal Action

Harris County Attorney’s Office Offers Online Resource for the Public to Report Price Gouging

Harris County Attorney’s Office Obtained Important Environmental Concessions from Valero in Air Permit Challenge

Harris County Law Library Renamed to Honor Civil Rights Leader Robert W. Hainsworth

Human Trafficking Victims and Alleged Sex Workers Dismissed from Anti-prostitution Lawsuit in Houston

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Appoints New Leadership Team

Harris County Attorney Urges Residents to Attend EPA Meeting on Soil Contamination

Calling All Students Interested in Law!

Calling All Students Interested in Law!