July 14, 2021 - Attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia are demanding federal regulators create a side-impact crash-test standard and better labeling standards for children's car seats. In a letter sent Tuesday to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Steven Cliff, the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety...
July 7, 2021 - Attorney General Daniel Cameron today joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to not reinstate California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act, which unconstitutionally allows California—and only California—to regulate new car emissions standards. Under the Clean Air Act, the Trump...
July 2, 2021 - Friday Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a statement in response to the $850 million civil settlement announced late on Thursday between the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and more than 60,000 individuals who have sued the organization over alleged sexual abuse. The settlement was announced late Thursday night and is one of the...
June 21, 2021 - Twenty-one state attorneys general argued in a joint statement on Monday that delaying first-class mail delivery by as many as two days would harm rural communities and could disenfranchise those who cast absentee ballots. In March, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, unveiled a plan to raise prices...
June 18, 2021 - A bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general sent a letter to congressional antitrust leaders urging them to support Rep. Ken Buck’s, R-Colo., antitrust bill. The letter expresses the group’s support of Buck’s bill, the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2021, and was led by Attorneys General Phil Weiser of Colorado; William Tong of...
June 8, 2021 - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in an effort to declare Google a public utility, his office announced. The suit seeks to reign in the ways Google provides search results to Ohioans. Yost is looking to declare Google a public utility to make it subject to government regulation and declare that Google cannot...
June 4, 2021 - Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, today secured a larger share of the $31 million fund established to reimburse their states’ consumer purchasers of Keurig K-Cup Portion Packs. The class action settlement in the case In re Keurig Green Mountain Single Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation...
May 26, 2021 - Attorney General Doug Peterson is joining a coalition of 47 Attorneys General in urging congressional leaders to support the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. The act, comprised of the Stop Senior Scam Act and Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2021, will assist stakeholders in training employees to recognize the warning signs of elder fraud and to...
May 21, 2021 - Attorney General Derek Schmidt of Kansas, along with 16 other state Attorneys General, have joined Governor Kristi Noem’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior. The brief filed in the U.S. District Court for South Dakota asks the court to block the federal agency’s decision to deny a permit for Fourth of July fireworks at Mount...
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