January 3, 2019 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leading a coalition of 17 attorneys general, today filed a notice of appeal in Texas v. U.S., defending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the healthcare of millions of Americans. Attorney General Becerra’s filing moves his legal defense of the ACA to the Fifth Circuit Court… Read more »
December 28, 2018 – Wells Fargo & Co. today reached an agreement with all 50 state Attorneys General and the District of Columbia regarding previously disclosed retail sales practices, auto collateral protection insurance (“CPI”) and Guaranteed Asset/Auto Protection (“GAP”), and mortgage interest rate lock matters. The company has been engaged with its federal regulators to… Read more »
December 20, 2018 – State attorneys general from Maine to South Carolina joined a lawsuit filed by conservationists seeking to block the Trump administration from allowing seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean that could harm marine mammals and lead to drilling off the Eastern Seaboard for the first time in decades. New York State Attorney… Read more »
December 10, 2018 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a bipartisan coalition of 43 state attorneys general urging the Social Security Administration to comply with a new provision of federal law intended to protect Americans from the growing problem of synthetic identity theft. Such fraud occurs when criminals use real Social Security numbers… Read more »
December 7, 2018 – Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has joined a group of attorneys general to fight robocalls. The bipartisan group is comprised of 40 state attorneys generals. Their goal is to stop or reduce annoying and harmful robocalls. The group is reviewing the technology that major telecom companies are pursuing to combat illegal… Read more »
November 28, 2018 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress should not pass a relatively weak online privacy bill to protect consumer data and use it to take precedence over a new California law. Big tech companies are pushing for a federal bill to preempt California’s law, which Governor… Read more »
November 19, 2018 – Five people are interested in succeeding Janet Mills as Maine’s attorney general now that she’s been elected governor. Lawmakers are expected to pick the new attorney general on Dec. 5. They’ll also fill treasurer and secretary of state posts. The five candidates for attorney general are Mike Carpenter, himself a former… Read more »
November 15, 2018 – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Wednesday that he won’t challenge Gov. John Bel Edwards in next year’s governor’s race, choosing instead to run for re-election as the state’s chief legal officer after significantly raising the profile of the job. The Republican attorney general ended speculation about his 2019 election plans… Read more »
November 13, 2018 – Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that state Treasurer Eric Schmitt would become Missouri attorney general when current Attorney General Josh Hawley resigns in January to become a U.S. senator. Schmitt, a Republican, earned his law degree from the St. Louis University School of Law in 2000. He served two terms… Read more »
November 5, 2018 – Indiana’s attorney general and a federal prosecutor in Kentucky have reached a nearly $5.2 million settlement with two dental firms accused of Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Curtis Hill announced the settlement Monday with U.S. Attorney Russell M. Coleman of the Western District of Kentucky. The settlement resolves claims that ImmediaDent of… Read more »