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December 7, 2023 - Led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, seven states filed a federal antitrust lawsuit today challenging the NCAA’s transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes’ ability to market their labor and control their education. The rule requires college athletes who transfer among Division I schools to wait one year...

November 27, 2023 - Dozens of states are suing Meta, alleging the tech giant has deliberately engineered its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook to be addictive to children and teens. Attorneys general from states ranging from California to Wisconsin filed federal and state lawsuits on Tuesday,  accusing Meta of intentionally turning kids into...

November 20, 2023 - California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading a coalition of 11 attorneys general, announced filing a multistate comment letter in support of a proposed rule issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regarding changes to the H-2A program. The H-2A program allows agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to...

November 16, 2023 - Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a fine of $6.5 million to a coalition of six states for compromising the personal data of millions of customers while decommissioning computers at the financial services giant, New York’s attorney general said Thursday. Morgan Stanley as part of the settlement agreed to adopt provisions “that better protects...

November 7, 2023 - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter supporting a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that updates a rule exempting executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) minimum wage and...

November 1, 2023 - Arizona joined 47 other states in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against a telecommunications company accused of facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to people on the National Do Not Call Registry. The legal action stems from the nationwide Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force made up of attorneys general from all 50 states as...

October 24, 2023 - A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general is suing Meta, alleging that features on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms are addictive and are aimed at kids and teens, the group announced Tuesday. The support from so many state attorneys general of different political backgrounds indicates a significant legal challenge to...

October 18, 2023 - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 49 other attorneys general recently announced a $49.5 million settlement with Blackbaud, Inc. over the software company’s data-security practices and its response to a breach in 2020 that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers. Ohio will receive nearly $1.3 million from the...

October 11, 2023 - Massachusetts has recently implemented a law that bans states from selling or shipping pork to the Commonwealth if they do not meet strict hog-housing restrictions. However, 13 states are fighting this new law stating it will cost pork producers hundreds of millions of dollars. The law, An Act to Prevent Cruelty to Farm Animals, went...