January 29, 2021 – New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general in opposing a proposed class action settlement that would permit a mortgage servicer to profit from illegal payment processing fees charged to homeowners making normal mortgage payments online or by phone. Attorney General James co-leads the… Read more »
January 18, 2021 – President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Rohit Chopra, the former student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to lead the consumer finance agency. And Biden will tap Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, to run the Securities and Exchange Commission. The choice of… Read more »
January 12, 2021 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday, as part of a 12-state coalition, submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arguing that its new draft guidance misinterprets the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. In County of Maui, the Supreme Court established a new… Read more »
December 31, 2020 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in two amicus briefs in support of two separate challenges to a Trump Administration rule that guts major aspects of the existing asylum system and effectively eliminates the meaningful right to apply for protection in the United… Read more »
December 23, 2020 – Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of environmental groups’ challenge to the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Keystone XL Pipeline relies on Nationwide Permit 12, which broadly authorizes the… Read more »
December 17, 2020 – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 other attorneys general in suing Google LLC for anticompetitive conduct in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The states allege that Google illegally maintains its monopoly power over general search engines and related advertising markets through a… Read more »
December 9, 2020 – New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday she and 47 other attorneys general including Ohio’s Dave Yost and Michigan’s Dana Nessel are suing Facebook for, what they call, the social media giant’s “anticompetitive conduct.” The complaint alleges that during the last decade Facebook thwarted competition and reduced consumer privacy… Read more »
December 1, 2020 – Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of attorneys general representing 43 states, the District of Columbia and 5 U.S. territories, urging Congress to extend the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economy (CARES) Act funding until the end of 2021. The letter signed by the attorneys general and sent to Congress… Read more »
November 23, 2020 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading a multistate coalition, filed a motion for summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful final rule redefining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Under the new rule, more than half of… Read more »
November 18, 2020 – Apple, Inc., and a coalition of 30 attorneys general, including South Carolina’s Alan Wilson, reached a $113 million settlement for iPhone throttling. Back in 2016, Apple made a decision to “throttle” iPhone speeds in order to address unexpected shutdown in some phones. Rather than disclosing the situation, Apple hid the issues… Read more »