April 29, 2020 – Attorney General Aaron Ford sent a letter to the nation’s three Consumer Reporting Agencies that they he will not hesitate to enforce safeguards set in place to ensure consumers’ credit is properly protected and their credit reports are fairly and accurately reported. The AG is joined by a coalition of 21… Read more »
April 23, 2020 – Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and 33 other attorneys general are calling on extra precautions to be put in place to protect homeowners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. AG Slatery signed on to letters addressed to the leaders of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the… Read more »
April 13, 2020 – Coronavirus stimulus checks are protected under existing Ohio law from bill collectors and exempt from state and federal attachment, garnishment or execution. Ohio Attorney General David Yost announced this Monday in a press release. “The stimulus checks were intended to be used during an emergency – to put food on the… Read more »
April 9, 2020 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson looks to ensure companies are held accountable for selling defective products to consumers. Wilson joins several other attorneys general from across the country regarding this matter for U.S. consumers. In a legal brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, Wilson and the coalition of attorneys… Read more »
March 31, 2020 – Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford and 20 other attorneys general wrote a letter calling on the Trump Administration to focus its efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic and freeze other pending rulemaking activity. “The need to prioritize regulations responsive to the COVID-19 pandemic should be self-evident,” the letter states. In their… Read more »
March 24, 2020 – Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has joined a coalition of more than a dozen attorneys general urging President Donald Trump to utilize the Defense Production Act to prioritize the production of critical items first responders and health care workers need amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, Frosh said: “COVID-19 is… Read more »
MArch 18, 2020 – Attorney General Offices in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas have been busy with complaints from consumers who are seeing an unfair rise in prices in the midst of this pandemic. Attorneys General are the only agencies in the Mid-South with the power to investigate price gouging. Price gouging laws are only triggered… Read more »
March 11, 2020 – Two state attorneys general have ordered a prominent televangelist and other companies to stop peddling alleged coronavirus elixirs. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday sent cease and desist orders to the Silver Edge Company and Sherrill Sellman for marketing products, such as “Silver Solution” and “Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator,”… Read more »
March 3, 2020 – Attorneys general from Nebraska and Kansas have joined a coalition of 46 AGs in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Monday over prescription drugs. In Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the attorneys general argue that in order to protect the well-being of consumers, states must regulate pharmacy benefit… Read more »
February 25, 2020 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday sent a letter to four top U.S. lawmakers urging them not to pre-empt the state’s new privacy law with a watered down federal legislation. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective since the start of 2020, is among the most significant regulations overseeing the… Read more »