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.

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 13-19, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 21 attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, challenging a federal directive seeking access to the Commercial Driver’s License Information System, a database of CDL holder records maintained by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). The lawsuit alleges that the agencies improperly threatened to terminate all federal grants and contracts with the AAMVA if the organization refused to provide the data. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of multiple federal privacy laws and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Continue Reading State AG News: Data Privacy, Consumer Protection, Administrative Law (August 13-19, 2026)

On August 19, 2026, the FTC issued a press release outlining the agency’s proposed Enforcement Policy Statement on personalized pricing putting businesses on notice that using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices without clear and conspicuous disclosures — including the fact of personalization, its basis, and the data used — may constitute a deceptive or unfair practice in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. 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 16-August 12, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 19 attorneys general moved to intervene in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Secretary Pete Hegseth, alleging that the DoD unlawfully froze routine national security reviews of land-based wind energy projects across the country, effectively blocking more than 100 wind projects. The coalition argues that the DoD’s “Wind Freeze” violates the Administrative Procedures Act and undermines state sovereign, economic, and policy interests.
  • A coalition of 20 attorneys general sent a letter to federal financial regulators to raise concerns about granting national banking charters to financial tech (“fintech”) companies without adequate safeguards to protect consumers and the financial system. The coalition warned that some fintech lenders use predatory tactics to target the financially vulnerable in violation of state laws and that extending banking privileges to cryptocurrency firms and emerging platforms could add risk to the financial system unless safeguards are implemented.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Antitrust, Environmental Regulation (July 16-August 12, 2026)

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)