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December 10, 2021 - A dental practice with more than 25 offices across Massachusetts — including in Springfield, West Springfield, Hadley and Pittsfield — is being sued over accusations of deceptive advertising and marketing schemes that put patients into debt. Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Aspen Dental Management, Inc.,...

November 30, 2021 - On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed comments, along with several other state attorneys general, advocating to rescind the Trump era Habitat Exclusion Rule that is allegedly unlawful and could lead to numerous vulnerable habitats from no longer being protected by federal law. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)...

November 22, 2021 - Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led a coalition of 12 states in sending a letter to Unilever and its subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to reverse their decision to boycott the State of Israel. “Today I was proud to lead a 12 state coalition in calling on Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s to reverse their...

November 18, 2021 - A bipartisan group of 10 state attorneys general have launched an investigation into Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, focused on the potential harms of its Instagram platform on children and teens. The announcement follows extensive reporting on a trove of internal documents leaked by whistleblower Frances...

November 11, 2021 - Attorney General William Tong has taken a co-leadership role in a coalition of 43 attorneys general calling on Congress to pass the Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2021. According to a letter sent to congressional leaders, Tong and his fellow attorneys general stated the bipartisan legislation would end the concept of “forum shopping”...

November 4, 2021 - Attorneys general in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee sued the Biden Administration Thursday over the vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, asserts the Biden administration’s mandatory vaccination requirement is unlawful and...

October 27, 2021 - Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and twenty other attorneys general from across the country sent a joint letter to President Biden, challenging what they call his administration’s evolving mandatory COVID vaccination requirement for federal contractors. The attorneys general pointed to the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force...

October 22, 2021 - Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now listed as a defendant on a privacy lawsuit filed by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine. According to CNBC, the lawsuit was first filed in 2018. However, Racine did not initially list Zuckerberg as a defendant. The amendment marks the first time that Zuckerberg has been...

October 15, 2021 - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is among a group of 20 state attorneys general opposing a federal proposal that would allow the IRS to monitor bank accounts with more than $600. The plan is part of Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending bill being considered in Congress. The attorneys general sent a letter to President Joe Biden and U.S....