June 4, 2021 - Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, today secured a larger share of the $31 million fund established to reimburse their states’ consumer purchasers of Keurig K-Cup Portion Packs. The class action settlement in the case In re Keurig Green Mountain Single Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation...
Attorney General Peterson Joins Coalition of AGs Urging Congressional Support for Fraud and Scam Reduction Act
May 26, 2021 - Attorney General Doug Peterson is joining a coalition of 47 Attorneys General in urging congressional leaders to support the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. The act, comprised of the Stop Senior Scam Act and Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2021, will assist stakeholders in training employees to recognize the warning signs of elder fraud and to...
17 state Attorneys General join Gov. Noem’s Mount Rushmore lawsuit
May 21, 2021 - Attorney General Derek Schmidt of Kansas, along with 16 other state Attorneys General, have joined Governor Kristi Noem’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior. The brief filed in the U.S. District Court for South Dakota asks the court to block the federal agency’s decision to deny a permit for Fourth of July fireworks at Mount...
More than 40 attorneys general ask Facebook to abandon plans to build Instagram for kids
May 10, 2021 - Attorneys general from 44 states and territories urged Facebook to abandon its plans to create an Instagram service for kids under the age of 13, citing detrimental health effects of social media on kids and Facebook’s reportedly checkered past of protecting children on its platform. Monday’s letter follows questioning from federal lawmakers...
25 States Mount Legal Fight To Block Sackler Bid For Opioid Immunity
May 3, 2021 - For months, members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, have portrayed their bid for immunity from future opioid lawsuits as a kind of fait accompli, a take-it-or-leave it fix to a legal morass. In exchange for what amounts to a legal firewall for the Sacklers and their remaining empire, members of the family...
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