AG Jennings secures additional $25 million natural resource damage settlement payment
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced the payment of an additional $25 million by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, The Chemours Company, DuPont de Nemours, Inc. and Corteva, Inc, (the “Companies”) in connection with the State’s July 2021 settlement with the Companies. The 2021 settlement, which resolved allegations related to the Companies’ responsibility for damages caused by releases of historical compounds within or impacting the State, including per- […]
AG Jennings, colleagues demand action from xAI over Grok’s Creation of Nonconsensual Sexual Content
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, January 23, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings and a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general today demanded in a joint letter that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, take additional action to prevent its AI chatbot, Grok, from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. In addition to signing the letter, […]
Lewes oncologist arrested on child pornography charges
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
A radiation oncologist at Delmarva Radiation Services, who contracts with Beebe Healthcare, has been arrested and charged with 25 felony counts of Dealing in Child Pornography, Attorney General Kathy Jennings has announced. Dr. Samuel Birer, 35, was arrested following an investigation led by the Delaware Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which is comprised […]
Attorney General Jennings sues HHS for discriminating against transgender Delawareans
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings last week joined 11 other attorneys general in suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for unlawfully conditioning hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding on states’ agreement to discriminate against transgender people. Under a new HHS policy, recipients of federal health, education, and research funding must […]
Appeals court blocks Trump Administration from defunding medical and public health research
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today issued the following statement after the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling permanently preventing the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from implementing a policy that would cut billions of dollars in […]
