| 12 23, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that South Dakota has reached a settlement agreement with Medtronic USA, Inc.
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| 12 21, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has sustained the motion for a preliminary injunction on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in the plaintiff-states of South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, and New Hampshire.
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| 12 21, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined a multi-state lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s overreaching COVID mandates. The suit led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, takes aim at the President’s unlawful requirements of masks on toddlers and COVID-19 shots for staff and volunteers in Head Start Programs.
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| 12 07, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced that earlier today, federal district court Judge R. Stan Baker in Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction suspending the federal contractor vaccine mandate.
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| 12 03, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg and the Division of Criminal Investigation today released the summary into the shooting of Elwood Joseph Dwyer, Jr., 52, Sioux Falls, SD, on October 28, 2021, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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| 11 29, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that a Missouri federal court granted South Dakota’s request for an injunction on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
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| 11 10, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today joined a ten-state coalition, led by Missouri and Nebraska, in challenging the vaccine mandate that the Biden Administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seeks to impose on healthcare workers throughout the nation.
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| 11 05, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today joined an eleven-state coalition in filing a lawsuit against Joe Biden and the Biden Administration to halt their vaccine mandate on private employers with more than 100 employees.
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| 11 02, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot draft explanation for the November 2022 general election.
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| 10 29, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today joined a ten-state coalition led by Missouri in filing a lawsuit against the Biden Administration for imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors and federally contracted employees.
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| 10 28, 2021 | The South Dakota State Supreme Court today announced their decision in In Re Implicated Individual.
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| 10 05, 2021 | Yesterday, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg joined a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general expressing strong support for the hearings being conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee addressing protection and safety of kids and teens using social media.
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| 09 20, 2021 | The Office of the South Dakota Attorney General announced today that 69-year old JoAnn Steffenson, 40-year old Jared Steffensen, and 36-year old Tami Steffensen were all sentenced and remanded to the custody of the Beadle County Sheriff on Friday, September 17, 2021.
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| 09 16, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined with 23 other state attorneys general to send a letter to President Joe Biden today, warning that litigation will follow the implementation of the proposed mandate on private sector employees to either get a COVID-19 shot, submit to weekly testing, or be fired.
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| 09 15, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has prepared the following statement regarding the appointment of co-counsel in the appeal to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of Planned Parenthood v. Noem.
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| 09 15, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined with 22 other state attorneys general opposing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, or H.R. 4.
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| 09 14, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that South Dakota and other states have reached an agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to settle allegations that Bristol-Myers Squibb overcharged the state Medicaid programs for drugs.
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| 09 09, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanation for the November 2022 general election.
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| 09 09, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanation for the November 2022 general election.
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| 07 29, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today announced the appointment of Tea Chief of Police Jessica Quigley to serve on the Law Enforcement Standards & Training Commission.
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| 07 23, 2021 | The office of the South Dakota Attorney General announced today that three arrests were made in Spink and Brown Counties on July 14, 2021, following an investigation which began in 2017.
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| 07 22, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today announced a historic $26 billion agreement that will help bring desperately needed relief to people across the country who are struggling with opioid addiction.
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| 07 09, 2021 | Contrary to current media reports, the Attorney General’s Office agrees with the South Dakota Highway Patrol’s Framework for Implementation of Initiated Measure 26.
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| 07 08, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general to file a lawsuit against Google in California.
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| 07 02, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has been elected to serve as the Vice Chair and a member of the Executive Board of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG).
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| 06 08, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg today announced the appointment of Hand County Commissioner Jim Eschenbaum to serve on the Law Enforcement Standards & Training Commission.
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| 05 18, 2021 | The Office of the South Dakota Attorney General announced today that Amy Violet Schmidt, 40, Aberdeen, was sentenced to serve two years in the state penitentiary for Identity Theft.
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| 05 14, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanation for the November 2022 general election.
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| 04 28, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that South Dakota and other states have reached an agreement with Indivior plc and Indivior Inc. (collectively “Indivior”) to settle allegations that Indivior falsely and aggressively marketed and otherwise promoted the drug Suboxone, resulting in improper expenditures of state Medicaid funds.
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| 04 09, 2021 | The Office of the Attorney General today released the Crime in South Dakota 2020 report. Read More |
| 03 22, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has certified that South Dakota’s regular Concealed Carry Permits qualify as an alternative to a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Read More |
| 03 19, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanation for the November 2022 general election. Read More |
| 03 18, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg joined 20 other state attorneys general, led by Montana and Texas, in filing suit in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to block President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and the illegitimate attempt to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXLP). Read More |
| 02 26, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanation for the November 2022 general election. Read More |
| 02 05, 2021 | South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has released the following Attorney General’s ballot explanations for the November 2022 general election. Read More |
| 02 05, 2021 | Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined a coalition of attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories in a $573 million settlement with one of the world’s largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company Inc., resolving investigations into the company’s role in working for opioid companies, helping those companies promote their drugs, and profiting from the opioid epidemic. Read More |
