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The Role of the State Attorney General, UMinn Law School, Spring, 2021
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Richard P. Ieyoub: Theodore Esienberg, State Attorney General Actions, the Tobacco Litigation, and the Doctrine of ParensPatrie, 74 Tul. L. Rev. 1859 (2000)

James E. Tierney

Attorneys general continue to ground their affirmative decisions on the common law and the doctrine of parens patriae.   This 2000 law review article by then Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub explores the history of parens and its possible applicability in the tobacco litigation of the 1990’s but remains relevant to the current decision making of attorneys general.  Richard P. Ieyoub; Theodore Eisenberg, State Attorney General Actions, the Tobacco Litigation, and the Doctrine of ParensPatrie, 74 Tul. L. Rev. 1859 (2000) 

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