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… Read more »
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… Read more »
March 11, 2020 – Two state attorneys general have ordered a prominent televangelist and other companies to stop peddling alleged coronavirus elixirs. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday sent cease and desist orders to the Silver Edge Company and Sherrill Sellman for marketing products, such as “Silver Solution” and “Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator,”… Read more »
March 3, 2020 – Attorneys general from Nebraska and Kansas have joined a coalition of 46 AGs in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Monday over prescription drugs. In Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the attorneys general argue that in order to protect the well-being of consumers, states must regulate pharmacy benefit… Read more »
February 25, 2020 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday sent a letter to four top U.S. lawmakers urging them not to pre-empt the state’s new privacy law with a watered down federal legislation. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective since the start of 2020, is among the most significant regulations overseeing the… Read more »
February 19, 2020 – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced his candidacy for the position in a new video on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Schmitt was sworn in as the state’s 43rd Attorney General on Jan. 3, 2019. He was appointed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson. Spokespeople with Schmitt’s office said since taking office he has… Read more »
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 »