October 31, 2018 – The sales tax lawsuit that brought South Dakota all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court has been settled, Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s office said Wednesday. South Dakota v. Wayfair pitted the state against three major online retailers who challenged South Dakota’s sales tax on e-retailers. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court… Read more »
October 22, 2018 – Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay a $65 million fine to settle claims brought by the New York Attorney General’s office that the bank misled investors about its cross-selling tactics. The fine is the most-recent penalty the bank has faced over its sales practice scandal, where bank employees made… Read more »
October 10, 2018 – The nationwide opioid epidemic is becoming a common factor in child-welfare cases across Washington, according to new internal data from the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. Nearly half of the office’s child-dependency cases, which involve children who are abused, neglected or abandoned, involve opioid abuse, according to a survey of lawyers… Read more »
October 5, 2018 – Twelve states, including Indiana, are asking a federal district court to throw out a climate lawsuit against oil giants. The states’ attorneys general filed a brief in the case this week. King County in Washington is suing BP, Exxon Mobil, and other major oil companies for flooding and other damages caused… Read more »
September 26, 2018 – Uber will pay $148 million and tighten data security after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information, according to a settlement announced Wednesday. Uber Technologies Inc. reached the agreement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia after a massive… Read more »
September 24, 2018 – Attorneys general from Nebraska and 10 other states are asking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to further tighten the manufacture of opioids. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office says the DEA’s preliminary quotas for 2019 don’t reflect the federal agency’s position that demand shouldn’t be equated with legitimate need. He… Read more »
September 12, 2018 – Although the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are the principal merger enforcers in this country, state attorneys general (state AGs) can, and often do, play a major role in merger review as well. State AGs have the authority to challenge mergers and acquisitions under federal antitrust… Read more »
September 6, 2018 – New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has issued subpoenas to every catholic diocese in the state as part of an investigation into how the church reviewed and possibly covered up allegations of sexual abuse of minors. Local district attorneys would potentially prosecute any alleged crimes. The Archdiocese of New York and… Read more »
August 31, 2018 – State attorneys general (AGs), for better or worse, are increasingly important actors in tech policy. As political scientist Paul Nolette explains in “ Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America,” many AGs, no longer content to police garden variety consumer protection issues, now drive national policy… Read more »
August 22, 2018 – Some supporters of so-called net neutrality rules are not ready yet to give up the fight. State attorneys general in 22 states and the District of Columbia, in a new filing Monday, want a federal appeals court to reinstate the rules passed under President Obama that prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs)… Read more »