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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation that updates New York’s consumer protection law for the first time in 45 years to ban unfair and abusive business practices, not just deceptive ones. Click here to continue reading 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 December 18-24:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 23 attorneys general sent a comment letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing the preemption of state laws on artificial intelligence (AI), in response to a notice of inquiry published by the FCC that suggested the FCC would attempt to use its regulatory authority to preempt state AI laws and limit the states’ ability to do so.
  • A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the Trump Administration to stop it from defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The coalition is seeking a court order preventing the CFPB’s current acting director from carrying out his decision to not request any funds for CFPB, and ordering the CFPB to request funding from the Federal Reserve to fulfill its duties.

Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection Enforcement, Federal Funding, AI (December 18-24, 2025)

Utah Attorney General Derek Brown (R) and North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson (D) have announced a nationwide bipartisan “AI Task Force” in partnership with major AI developers (including OpenAI and Microsoft) and the Attorney General Alliance (AGA), a bipartisan nonprofit that serves as a forum for Attorneys General around the United States to discuss…

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 9-22, 2025:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 17 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in San Francisco AIDS Foundation, et al. v. Trump, et al., opposing President Trump’s attempts to block federal diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs through executive orders. The brief urges the Ninth Circuit to uphold a preliminary injunction blocking the orders and argues that they violate constitutional protections for expression and non-discrimination.
  • A bipartisan coalition of 34 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief in NetChoice, LLC v. Jonathan Skrmetti,  defending a Tennessee law aimed at protecting children from social-media-related harms. The brief argues that social-media companies exploit youth vulnerabilities for profit and urges courts to recognize states’ authority to safeguard minors online.

Continue Reading State AG News: Children’s Privacy, Consumer Fraud, Environmental Action (October 9-22, 2025)

California’s new Senate Bill 763 increases civil and criminal antitrust penalties under the Cartwright Act, creates ambiguity around how violations are counted, and likely gives the California Attorney General added financial incentives and discretion to pursue enforcement. Click here to continue reading 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 August 28-September 3, 2025:

Alaska

  • Attorney General Stephen Cox announced a temporary restraining order against Alaska Wilderness Outfitter and its operator. According to the complaint, the company and operator defrauded consumers out of more than $660,000 by taking advance payment for guided hunts that the company canceled without refund. The lawsuit also alleges that the few clients who participated in the hunts were subjected to dangerous conditions without sufficient fuel or guides. The temporary restraining order prevents the operator from taking payments from new customers unless and until the operator can demonstrate to the court that he can provide safe, legal hunts for existing customers. The order also requires the operator to preserve assets for the payment of consumer restitution.

Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Fraud, Misleading Ads, Tenant Rights August 28-September 3, 2025

Crowell’s Tiffany Aguiar will be a panelist at George Mason University’s (GMU) Nineteenth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues. Hosted by the university’s Law & Economics Center, the symposium brings together judges, scholars, and practitioners to address pressing civil justice issues such as third-party litigation financing; the evolving role of judges in expert testimony admission; recent developments in consumer protection; the latest “super torts;” and assessing multi-district litigation, class actions, and mass arbitrations.Continue Reading Speaking Engagement Spotlight: George Mason University’s Nineteenth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues

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 17-30, 2025:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general announced the filing of a complaint challenging the allegedly unlawful final rule promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the coalition argues will create significant barriers to obtaining healthcare under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The complaint asserts that the HHS and CMS rule is unlawful, arbitrary and capricious, and would cause significant harm to states and their residents. It further asserts that the final rule imposes burdensome and costly paperwork requirements, limits the opportunities to sign up for health coverage, substantially increases cost-sharing limits, and forces exchanges and consumers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prove eligibility for coverage and subsidies, resulting in direct and immediate costs to states as well as harms tied to decreased enrollment.
  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed an amicus brief urging the federal judge overseeing the case in Mid-America Milling Company v. United States Department of Transportation to uphold the proposed consent order that would end the federal government’s enforcement of engaging in alleged race-based preferences in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. According to the DBE webpage housed on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s website, this program is designed to ensure that small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals have a fair opportunity to compete for federally funded transportation contracts. According to the Idaho attorney general, the “federal mandate forces states to sometimes reject the most qualified, cost-effective contractors based solely on the race and gender of business owners, resulting in higher costs for taxpayers.”

Continue Reading State AG News: Health Care, Privacy Violation, Contracts July 17-30, 2025

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 29-June 11, 2025

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  • A bipartisan coalition of 42 attorneys general sent a letter to the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Banking Committee regarding the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act of 2025 (H.R. 2808 and S. 1467). The letter urges Congress to pass this legislation to end the abusive use of mortgage credit triggers and seeks to preserve the use of mortgage credit to narrowly defined, consumer consented circumstances.
  • A coalition of 8 attorneys general announced a contempt order was filed against John Spiller, owner of Rising Eagle Capital Group, JSquared Telecom, and Rising Eagle Capital Group-Cayman, which offered robocall dialer and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol ) services to telemarketers. Spiller allegedly helped facilitate large volumes of robocalls, including many targeting numbers on the Do Not Call Registry, through his telemarketing service companies. Spiller is required to pay $600,000 in attorney’s fees and litigation costs for violating a 2023 court order that barred him from placing or facilitating robocalls.

Continue Reading State AG News: Robocalls, False Advertising, Inflated Rent May 29-June 11, 2025

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 highlights from April 3-9, 2025.

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• 12 state attorneys general sent letters to twenty law firms demanding that the firms comply with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) March 17 letter requesting information to determine whether the law firms had engaged in any illegal and discriminatory actions through their diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”)-related employment policies.Continue Reading State AG News: Labor & Employment, State AG Office News, Consumer Protection April 3-9, 2025