(AUGUSTA) Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills today applauded the latest in a string of legal victories upholding Maine?s campaign finance disclosure laws that have been flaunted by the National Organization for Marriage. Stemming from their failure to comply with Maine law during a 2009 referendum on Marriage equality, the National Organization for Marriage was today denied a stay of compliance by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court pending another appeal.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet T. Mills applauds the initiatives in the new state budget to fight drug trafficking and to fund the Cold Case Homicide Unit.

Among the scores of items funded in the $6.7 billion two-year budget plan are initiatives to address Maine?s drug epidemic. The budget funds up to six drug new enforcement agents and two new drug prosecutors to handle major drug crimes. The budget also funds two new judges and two new clerks for the Court System to handle the increased caseload.

(Augusta, Maine) ? Maine Attorney General Janet Mills announced the terms of a settlement that she and 16 other States have reached with Dollar Tree, Inc., following their review of the company?s proposed acquisition of Family Dollar Stores, Inc. The merger combines two large national chains of deep discount stores.

(AUGUSTA) The Attorney General Janet T. Mills reminds consumers who received services from National Bath Systems, LLC, d/b/a Bath Fitter (?Bath Fitter?), that the deadline to request an inspection of their bath installation is September 1, 2015.

Attorney General Mills previously alleged that Bath Fitter engaged in unlicensed plumbing activities, used non-conforming construction contracts, installed plumbing before a plumbing permit issued, misrepresented employees? license status, and engaged in plumbing installations that may violate the Maine State Internal Plumbing Code.

(Augusta, Maine) ? Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills applauded the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court today in upholding the right to marry as a fundamental protection of the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.

(AUGUSTA) The United States Supreme Court has denied a request to hear a case sought by the LePage Administration to drop MaineCare coverage for 19 and 20 year olds. The order released on Monday morning denied certiorari in the case of Mayhew v. Burwell.

Attorney General Janet T. Mills has opposed the effort by the LePage administration in this case, citing a lack of legal merit in their position. This is the third time the Administration?s efforts have been rebuffed in a legal setting.

AUGUSTA, Maine ? Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that Brian Morse, 54, of Kennebunk, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two years in prison for Failing to File and Pay Maine Income Taxes for 2006 to 2008 and 2010, all Class C offenses. This was Morse?s third conviction for violating Maine?s income tax laws. He was previously convicted of failing to pay taxes in December 2002 for years 1996 to 2001 and again in March 2007 for years 2002 to 2005.

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Janet T. Mills, together with law enforcement partners in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission, have jointly filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against four phony cancer charities, Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Children?s Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Cancer Support Services, Inc., and The Breast Cancer Society, Inc., and their operators for allegedly scamming more than $187 million from consumers throughout the country.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that John M. Look, 52, of Minot, has been sentenced in Cumberland County Superior Court for conduct related to his theft of funds that rightly belonged to his disabled brother.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet Mills praised the work of the Office of the Attorney General to ensure that the rules that state agencies write are of the highest quality and legally defensible. In response to the Governor?s call to eliminate the role of the Office of the Attorney General in approving agency rules, Attorney General Mills issued the following statement: