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 October 1-7, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 21 state attorneys general and additional local governmental entities sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”), challenging the agency’s final rule reducing corporate average fuel economy (“CAFE”) standards for new vehicles. Under the final rule, vehicle manufacturers are required to achieve an average fuel efficiency of 34.9 miles per gallon by 2031, a reduction from the previously established goal of over 50 miles per gallon. The coalition argues that CAFE standards have historically lowered costs for American consumers by driving improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency and have reduced gas prices.

Texas

  • Attorney General Paxton secured a $7.5 million settlement with Tris Pharmaceuticals (“Tris”), a pharmaceutical company, and its CEO, Ketan Mehta. The settlement agreement resolves claims that Tris misrepresented the efficacy of its attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (“ADHD”) drug marketed for children, in violation of the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act. Tris allegedly directed its sales representatives to make misleading claims to physicians, asserting that the drug acted quicker than competing products and offered other unsubstantiated benefits to children. The judgment requires Tris to pay $7.5 million to the State of Texas.

Iowa

  • Attorney General Bird sued ADI Global Distribution Inc. (“ADI”), a distributor of video surveillance products, for alleged violations of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act. The petition alleges that ADI sold security cameras to consumers that were manufactured by two China-based entities identified by the Federal Communications Commission to pose a national security risk, while concealing the true origin of the products and the manufacturers’ affiliations. The petition further alleges that ADI, at times, altered product labels to obscure the cameras’ origins, and that none of the accompanying documentation informed consumers of the associated data-security vulnerabilities or of their presence on U.S. government lists. The petition seeks monetary penalties of up to $40,000 per violation, and injunctive relief.

Florida

  • Attorney General Uthmeier filed a motion for a temporary injunction against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Instagram, LLC (“Meta”) in the Sixth Circuit, for alleged violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The motion argues that Meta deliberately designed addictive features to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of users under the age of 18. The motion seeks to require Meta to: cease making deceptive statements and omissions about its platforms; implement age-verification measures and remove all Florida users under the age of 14, or, if those measures cannot be implemented within 30 days, cease providing users under the age of 18 access to the platforms in Florida entirely; and modify its platforms to reduce addictive and harmful use by teen users.

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 September 24-30, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders urging Congress to establish a federal framework for overseeing artificial intelligence development and to protect state authority to regulate AI by prohibiting federal preemption of state laws. The coalition outlined several core principles it believes federal AI legislation must address, including: mandating safety testing and performance standards; requiring transparent and uniform incident reporting with publicly available findings; ensuring that AI safety infrastructure and leadership operate independently of commercial incentives; pursuing international coordination to manage the pace of AI advancement and prevent the emergence of uncontrollable superintelligence; and expressly preserving the authority of state officials to enforce both federal and state AI protections.
Continue Reading State AG News: AI Regulation, Data Protection, Food Safety (September 24-30, 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 September 18-23, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general announced a $694 million settlement with Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC), one of the nation’s largest subprime auto lenders. CAC allegedly provided loans it knew or should have known that consumers could not afford and allowed unlawful “packing” of Vehicle Service Contracts (VSC) and Guaranteed Asset Protection (GAP) products onto consumer auto loans. The settlement provides $60 million in cash restitution for consumers who received particularly risky loans, $388 million in debt relief for consumers whose vehicles were repossessed, and $246 million in debt relief to allow consumers to keep their vehicles, plus $15 million paid to the states. CAC will also be required to provide pre-loan risk disclosures, institute a seven-year vehicle price cap of 109% of retail book value, implement off-ramps for quickly failing loans, and establish enhanced dealer monitoring.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Settlements, Federal Regulation (September 18-23, 2026)

Register now to join Crowell’s State AG team as they kick off a two-part webinar series examining the 2026 State Attorney General elections and what they mean for businesses operating across the United States.

Part One: Mid-Cycle Check-In: The AG Races to Watch

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET

This session will provide a timely look at the Attorney General races to watch, key primary election results, emerging enforcement priorities, and how election outcomes could shape multistate investigations, consumer protection initiatives, and federal-state enforcement efforts in the years ahead.

Continue Reading Register Now! The Future of State Enforcement: Insights from the 2026 AG Elections

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 September 10-17, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 21 attorneys general filed two lawsuits to protect endangered and threatened species. The suits allege that new rules undermine essential protections for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act.
  • A bipartisan coalition of 49 attorneys general urged the Federal Communications Commission to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to help prevent scammers from using U.S. phone networks to make unlawful robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to take steps to not regularly pass through unlawful calls.
Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Consumer Fraud, Environmental Policy (September 10-17, 2026)

In a recently published Law360 article, Crowell attorneys Stacey Geis, Juge Gregg, and Emily Werkmann examine the rapidly evolving legal landscape surrounding state packaging and recycling laws, analyzing the mounting wave of constitutional challenges to extended producer responsibility programs now enacted across seven states and the significant compliance, litigation, and strategic implications for companies navigating this uncertainty. 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 September 3-9, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general, co-led by Illinois Attorney General Raoul and the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts, filed suit challenging a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prohibiting federal Medicaid and CHIP reimbursement for gender-affirming care for beneficiaries under ages 18 and 19, respectively, while continuing to cover the same treatments when provided to non-transgender youth. The coalition argues that since the creation of Medicaid and CHIP in the 1960s, Congress has reserved to states the authority to determine which services are covered under their programs, and that HHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lack statutory authority to categorically exclude medically necessary services from reimbursement based solely on the patient’s transgender status. The complaint alleges violations of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Spending Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The rule is set to take effect on October 13, 2026.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Healthcare, Voting (September 3-9, 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 August 28-September 2, 2026:

Multistate Coalition

  • A multistate coalition of 51 attorneys general issued a proposed settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) resolving the coalition’s lawsuit against the company for its alleged deployment of harmful features that create compulsive behavior in children. The settlement will require Meta to pay $17 billion to the states over ten years. It also contains injunctive terms requiring Meta to implement child safety measures, including restrictions on daily use of social media for those under 18 and enhanced reporting requirements.
Continue Reading State AG News: Child Safety, Social Media, Labor and Employment (August 28-September 2, 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 August 20-27, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 48 states and territories, announced by Idaho Attorney General Labrador and others, reached a $29.6 million settlement with generic drug manufacturer Glenmark to resolve allegations that the company participated in a long-running conspiracy to artificially inflate prices, suppress competition, and unreasonably restrain trade in numerous generic prescription drugs, in violation of federal antitrust laws. The Glenmark settlement follows earlier settlements with Lannett, Bausch, Apotex, and Heritage totaling $66.95 million, and comes as the states prepare for a first trial anticipated to be scheduled in late 2026 in Hartford, Connecticut. As part of the agreement, Glenmark will cooperate in the ongoing multistate litigations against 33 corporate defendants and 25 individual executives and will implement a series of internal compliance reforms. Idaho is one of only two states in the coalition that also secured restitution for businesses—not only consumers—that were indirectly affected by the price-fixing scheme.
Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Food and Beverage (August 20–27, 2026)

In a recently published article, Ken Dintzer and Toni Michelle Jackson examine the growing power of state attorneys general in antitrust enforcement and analyze the significant legal, structural, and strategic implications for corporate counsel and deal teams as state-level merger scrutiny accelerates beyond federal oversight. Click here to read the full article.