May 13, 2020 - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined 20 other state attorney generals to ask Congress to enact liability protections from frivolous Covid-19 related lawsuits. Marshall, along with 20 other AG's, sent a letter on May 11 to Congressional leaders describing legal ramifications. The letter states: in the wake of this unprecedented...
May 6, 2020 - The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market concentration and potential price-fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the state attorneys general noted that the...
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 attorneys general in this letter....
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 Federal Housing Finance...
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 table, keep the...
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...
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...
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 a deadly...
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 when the Governors...
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