Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Pawtucket man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 11 years at the Adult Corrections Institutions (ACI) for multiple counts of child molestation.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced that following the filing of a lawsuit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has now dropped its plan to impose illegal conditions on nearly $1.4 billion in Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants.
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Attorney General Neronha today co-led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced his decision to conditionally suspend the Office’s investigation into the merger between Brown University Health’s physician organization, Brown Health Medical Group (BHMG), and Brown Physicians Inc. under the Office’s antitrust review authority.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island federal court to stop the Trump Administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general in suing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language concerning gender identity.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania in filing a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision” within the recently enacted federal budget bill (“Big Beautiful Bill”). The Defund Provision excludes certain health centers, including Planned Parenthood health centers, from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursements. Among other things, these centers provide essential healthcare services to low-income patients, such as cancer screenings, testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and birth control.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today issued the following statement after a Rhode Island District Court Judge granted the States’ motion for summary judgement, issuing a permanent injunction against the Trump Administration’s attempts to illegally impose immigration conditions on billions of federal dollars appropriated by Congress to support critical emergency services.
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Attorney General Neronha today issued the following statement after a federal court in Washington, D.C. granted a motion for preliminary injunction in Ørsted’s case against the Trump Administration, allowing for work on the Revolution Wind project to proceed.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today filed a motion for preliminary injunction in their ongoing lawsuit against the Trump Administration to overturn the stop work order abruptly and arbitrarily issued on August 22, 2025, which halted the construction of Revolution Wind.
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