News & Events

October 1, 2020 - This week, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced Operation Corrupt Collector, a federal-state law enforcement sweep against phantom and abusive debt collection. In a joint effort with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and more than 50 federal and state law enforcement partners, the initiative involves enforcement actions...

September 25, 2020 - Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has joined a bipartisan coalition of 31 states filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to support states’ authority to enforce price gouging regulations to protect consumers during emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The coalition will urge the...

September 15, 2020 - New York’s Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against Dunkin’ over a 2015 security breach. The company was accused of failing to notify nearly 20,000 customers that their accounts had been compromised. The lawsuit also claimed Dunkin’ failed to investigate what customer...

September 7, 2020 - Attorney General Daniel Cameron recently joined a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in sending a letter to President Donald Trump asking for his support of the National ID Child Program. The program provides Child ID Kits to parents or guardians to easily collect and record physical characteristics, fingerprints, and DNA of their...

September 2, 2020 - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a bipartisan coalition of 23 attorneys general in signing a letter urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prohibit use of the publication “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluation” – commonly known as the Orange Book – to block competition. The Orange Book...

August 27, 2020 - Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a lawsuit against Instacart, a grocery delivery service, for charging District consumers millions of dollars in deceptive service fees and for failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in District sales tax. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) alleges that for a span of 18 months,...

August 18, 2020 - Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration over a new rule that would allow for the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail, citing health and safety risks. The rule, finalized this year by the Transportation Department and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), would...

August 13, 2020 - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul are leading a bipartisan coalition of 44 states in urging Congress to include Edith’s Bill in Coronavirus relief legislation. Jeff Landry states, "By adding "senior fraud" as an eligible reimbursement expense under Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA) our...

August 4, 2020 - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today led a bipartisan multistate coalition urging U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use their legal authority to increase the availability of remdesivir....