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• The Honorable Kevin B. Sullivan, State Capitol, 2002-027 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested an opinion concerning the validity of certain claims of testimonial privilege asserted by officials of the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) subpoenaed to testify at a hearing of the Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees ("Joint Committee").

• John B. Larson, President Pro Tempore, Cornelius O'Leary, Senate Majority Leader, 1991-016 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  The issue in this request for opinion is whether the Connecticut General Assembly can, by repealing the authorization for charitable Las Vegas Nights in Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-186a et seq., eliminate the right of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (Tribe) to conduct a casino on its reservation in Ledyard.

• Attorney General Statement Regarding Request By Higher Education Committee

• John R. Shears, Administrator, State Teachers' Retirement Board, 1991-029 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter of April 11, 1991 in which you relate that the State Teachers' Retirement Board has requested our advice on the eligibility of a member of the Teachers' Retirement System to purchase additional service credits toward retirement for time while under disciplinary suspension.

• Attorney General Statement Regarding Secretary Of The State’s Request For Legal Opinion

• Attorney General Submits Congressional Testmony Branding Rating Agencies “Enablers Of Wrongdoing,” Calling For Reform

• Timothy Coppage, Department of Economic and Community Development, 2002-002 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter dated August 27, 2001, in which you request our opinion on whether the Department of Economic and Community Development ("DECD") is a "public housing agency" within the purview of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ("Housing Act"), 42 U.S.C. § 1437 et seq., and, therefore, is an entity able to participate as a public housing agency in programs authorized under the Housing Act.

• William F. Sudol, Administrator, State Teachers' Retirement Board, 2002-028 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested an opinion of this office as to whether a surviving spouse of a Teachers’ Retirement System member can receive the survivor’s benefits provided by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-183h(d) when the member’s sole designated beneficiary is a trust to which she was the sole beneficiary until her death.

• Mr. Donald A. Kirshbaum, Bridgeport Financial Review Board, 1991-013 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  Through you the Bridgeport Financial Review Board (hereinafter the "Board") has asked for our opinion regarding the procedure for setting the property tax rate in the city of Bridgeport (hereinafter the "city"). Specifically, you have inquired whether the City tax rate can be reset after the Board has taken action on the City's proposed annual budget which was predicated on a particular tax rate set by the City's Common Council under the provisions set for the in the City charter.

• Attorney General Submits Testimony Calling On Congress To Institute Internet Do-Not-Track

• Mr. Frank Mancuso, Office of Emergency Management, 1991-023 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  In your letter dated December 5, 1990, you expressed concern over the extent of the financial responsibility to which the State is potentially exposed pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 28-14.

• Attorney General Sues Credit Agencies For Tainted Ratings That Enabled Financial Meltdown

• Mr. John R. Shears, State Teachers' Retirement Board, 1991-004 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By letter dated November 27, 1990 you have asked two questions raised as a result of a request of a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System who has not received any retirement benefit payments since his retirement in 1986. The first question concerns whether retirement benefits can be paid to the member retroactively to 1986 pursuant to a payment plan which he selected in June, 1990, which differs from a payment plan which he previously had on file with the Board in 1986. The second question is whether the Board may pay interest at a reasonable rate from the time each payment was due until the date payment is made.

• Honorable Arthur J. Rocque, Jr., Department of Environmental Protection, 2001-005 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  Your Department has asked our opinion whether Section 6 of Public Act 00-201 requires that an owner of a residential underground heating oil storage tank system contract with a registered contractor for all work necessary for the removal or replacement of that tank system, and remediation as may be necessary, in order for the Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Clean-Up Account Review Board ("Review Board") to reimburse eligible costs.

• Honorable Arthur J. Rocque, Jr., Department of Environmental Protection, 2001-010 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked the extent of the responsibility and potential liability of the Department of Environmental Protection (hereinafter "DEP"), regarding the marking, through signage (beacons) and/or barrier floats, of potentially hazardous state-owned dams. The issue involved affects 15 to 20 sites statewide. This opinion is limited to water retention dams only.