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 States. By...
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 construction of oil...
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 series...
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...
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 November 30, 2020...
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...
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 from...
November 6, 2020 - Alabama’s attorney general says the state has reached a $60 million settlement with Terminix International for violating the state’s consumer protection laws. Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the settlement on Thursday. He said the company was systematically overcharging customers for termite services and sometimes failing to...
October 27, 2020 - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Tuesday that he was able to make an agreement with Ticketmaster and able to return $71 million to consumers who bought tickets to live events in Arizona that were either cancelled, postponed or rescheduled due to the pandemic. “Consumers who spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars on...
