February 14, 2020 – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is continuing to call for fentanyl-related substances to be permanently classified as Schedule I drugs following a temporary emergency classification renewed by President Donald Trump last week. On Feb. 6, the day it was set to expire, Trump signed S. 3201, the Temporary Reauthorization and Study… Read more »
February 3, 2020 – The Trump administration and Republican-led states told the Supreme Court on Monday that it should not step in at this time to consider the fate of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, they are asking the high court to allow the case to return to a district judge for further proceedings. In… Read more »
January 31, 2020 – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, leading a bipartisan coalition of 23 attorneys general, today announced an amicus brief supporting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ability to seek restitution for consumers when enforcing consumer protections under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Raoul and the coalition filed the brief in Federal Trade Commission v…. Read more »
January 24, 2020 – State Attorney General Letitia James is leading a 24-state coalition that has filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing for preserving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s existence and, perhaps as importantly, argues the coalition, keeping in place state powers under the Dodd-Frank Act even if the protection bureau… Read more »
January 15, 2020 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said last week that “knowledge is power, and in today’s world knowledge is derived from data. When it comes to your own data, you should be in control…” These words came in an Advisory highlighting California consumers’ rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The… Read more »