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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 May 8-14, 2025

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  • A coalition of 23 state attorneys general submitted an amicus brief challenging the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The brief argues that the restructuring of CFPB would cause irreparable harm to consumers and state consumer protection enforcement efforts, reduce oversight of the nation’s largest banks, and increase burdens on state agencies to protect consumers.
  • A coalition of 23 state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Leadership and the House Financial Services Committee encouraging the House to vote against a resolution that would overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2024 rule limiting banks’ ability to impose overdraft fees. Currently the rule prevents banks from charging excessive overdraft fees that may lead to negative effects on consumers’ credit scores or result in account closures.

Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Medicaid Fraud, Environment May 8-14, 2025

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Multistate

  • A coalition of twenty-five state attorneys general called on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule on car tailpipes, arguing that Congress did not give the EPA authority to restructure the automobile industry.
  • A coalition of twenty-five state attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in support of proposed rules entitled, “Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transactions.” The letter expresses support for the regulations which aim to reduce a criminal’s ability to launder money through residential real estate transactions by requiring individuals involved in property closings and settlements to submit reports and retain records on identified non-financed transfers of property to specified legal entities and trusts nationwide.

Continue Reading State AG Blog Updates April 19-25, 2024

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