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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall. 2022

Memorandum of Former members of the New Hampshire Attorney General Office, Amici to the NH Supreme Court on an Opinion of the Justices, May 23, 2011

In the midst of a fight between the New Hampshire legislature the then attorney general, Mike Delaney,  former members of that office filed an amicus brief successfully arguing that an attorney general cannot be directed in the specifics of his litigation by the legislature.

This recurring issue is the subject of recurring litigation in states where the issue is important and the legislature for whatever reason does not trust the attorney general.  See the pending case from North Carolina:  NC NAACP v. Berger (4th Cir en banc, Dec. 20, 2020),

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/192273A.P.pdf   

Memorandum of Former members of the New Hampshire Attorney General Office on HB 89, Docket No. 2011-0319, May 23, 2011