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December 19, 2016 - In a 19-page complaint filed in Hennepin County, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson accused Alpine Fence Company, LLC, and owner Chad Thompson of Minneapolis, with deceptive, fraudulent and unlawful business practices. “We filed a lawsuit against the company and the owner for misleading people,” said Swanson. “Holding out that he...

December 8, 2016 - Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that he has filed an environmental lawsuit against Monsanto in King County Superior Court. The lawsuit seeks damages and cleanup costs associated with the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Monsanto produced for decades while hiding what they knew about the toxic chemicals’ harm to human health...

November 28, 2016 - New York AG Eric Schneiderman has announced that a settlement agreement has been reached in the “Trump University case.” According to AG Schneiderman’s announcement, the NY AG’s office sued Donald Trump in 2013 for “swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known as Trump University.” The $25...

November 22, 2016 - Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by four Massachusetts gun shops over her crackdown on "copycat" assault weapons. The four shops' lawsuit alleged Healey's crackdown, first announced in July, was "unconstitutionally vague, invalid, and unenforceable." They were...

November 17, 2016 - West Virginia’s Attorney General has joined a coalition of 42 attorneys general in an antitrust lawsuit against the makers of Suboxone, citing a scheme to block generic competitors. Suboxone is a brand-name prescription drug meant to be used to treat heroin and opioid abuse by easing addiction cravings. An earlier version of the lawsuit...

November 7, 2016 - U.S. state attorneys general have joined a federal antitrust probe of the planned merger between DuPont (DD.N) and Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N), according to three people familiar with the matter, heightening risks to a deal that could help reshape the global farm industry. A separate group of state attorneys general are expected to join a...

November 1, 2016 - Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced this week the filing of a motion for preliminary injunction and request for expedited consideration on behalf of 21 coalition states in Nevada’s federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule. Laxalt and the coalition argue that the overtime rule violates not...

October 27, 2016 - Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. agreed to pay $41.2 million to settle state attorneys general probes stemming from overstated fuel-economy claims the South Korean auto makers made several years ago. The manufacturers settled investigations with 33 states and Washington, D.C., state attorneys general and the companies said...

October 13, 2016 - Twenty-one attorneys general from predominantly Republican states requested Wednesday evening that a Texas court issue an emergency preliminary injunction against the Labor Department’s final overtime rule. The rule, to take effect in December, will raise (to $47,476) the salary threshold under which virtually all workers are guaranteed...