On July 22, 2026, Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri challenging Kansas City’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise contracting program as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, asserting that the program’s race- and sex-based preferences cannot survive constitutional scrutiny. Click here to continue reading the full version of this alert.

In a recently published Law360 article, Toni Michelle Jackson and Tiffany Aguiar examine Minnesota’s landmark prediction market statute — the nation’s first law to criminalize the hosting, facilitation, and advertising of prediction markets — and analyze the federal court’s July 27 preliminary injunction blocking its enforcement against CFTC-registered platforms, while advising businesses operating in Minnesota to assess their exposure under the statute’s broad reach without waiting for the litigation to resolve. Click here to read the full article.

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from July 9-16, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 42 attorneys general announced a multistate settlement with the bankruptcy trustee for 23andMe, resolving allegations stemming from a 2023 data breach that compromised the genetic data of 6.9 million customers worldwide. The settlement includes $150 million in allowed claims for states, but due to the finite amount of funds in the bankruptcy estate, the court limited recovery to $18 million which will be paid out immediately.
Continue Reading State AG News: Robocalls, Fintech, Administrative Law (July 9-16, 2026)

On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. / Little v. Hecox, holding that Title IX permits schools to limit participation in girls’ and women’s sports to students assigned female at birth and that state laws limiting such teams to students assigned female at birth do not violate the federal Equal Protection Clause. Click here to read the full version of this alert.

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from July 2-8, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general submitted a comment letter urging the Trump Administration to withdraw a proposed information collection request associated with Executive Order 14398, “Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors.” The proposed collection would impose reporting, recordkeeping, and information-sharing obligations on federal contractors and subcontractors in connection with a new prohibition to be included in federal contracts related to DEI activities. The coalition argued that the proposed collection would violate the Paperwork Reduction Act, that the public notice did not provide enough information for meaningful public comment and underestimated the burden on contractors, and that the proposal does not establish adequate protections for sensitive and personally identifiable information.
Continue Reading State AG News: Food Distributors, Pet Stores, Healthcare (July 2-8, 2026)

A recent enforcement action led by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison along with a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general signals an accelerating and coordinated crackdown on competitively sensitive information-sharing arrangements. Click here to read the full version of this alert.

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from June 25-July 1, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 17 attorneys general settled with egg producers Cal-Maine Foods, Centrum/Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch, alleging that the companies conspired to coordinate their bidding activities to artificially inflate daily egg prices published by Urner Barry, a benchmark pricing service. The settlement requires the egg producers to donate more than 53 million eggs and make non-penalty, monetary payments totaling $3.3 million to the states for consumer protection enforcement.
Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, Voting, Affordable Housing (June 25-July 1, 2026)

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from June 18-24, 2026:

Arkansas

  • Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the 2026 Fraud and Consumer Protection Summit, to be held September 28–29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The summit will cover topics including common scams, price gouging, Medicaid fraud, and robocall awareness. Admission is free but registration is required.
Continue Reading State AG News: Data Privacy, Pricing, Environmental Regulation (June 18-24, 2026)

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from June 11-17, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general won a lawsuit challenging a federal government order to freeze all permitting for wind energy projects. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the Trump administration’s appeal after the administration chose to drop the case, cementing a lower court ruling that the freeze was arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.
  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging the federal administration’s alleged imposition of unclear and confusing requirements to end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives on state agencies contracting with the federal government. The complaint alleges that federal agencies violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to provide notice or accept public comments, exceeding their legal authority, and neglecting to adequately explain or justify the new requirements.
Continue Reading State AG News: Administrative Law, Antitrust, Civil Rights (June 11-17, 2026)

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from June 4-10, 2026:

New York

  • New York Attorney General James secured a settlement exceeding $3.9 million from Xponential Fitness, Inc. and its current and former subsidiaries, resolving allegations that the company violated New York’s Franchise Sales Act by providing prospective franchise owners with materially misleading estimates of how long it would take to open new studio locations. OAG’s investigation found that while Xponential consistently disclosed opening timelines of three to six months in Franchise Disclosure Documents filed with the state, the company simultaneously reported substantially longer timelines—as many as 15 months—in annual reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The $3,971,250 settlement will be distributed entirely as restitution to impacted franchisees, with $3,000,000 allocated among 70 franchisees who experienced longer-than-disclosed opening delays and $971,250 paid to 25 franchisees who were ultimately never able to open their studio locations.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, False Advertising, Public Health (June 4-10, 2026)