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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 June 19-25, 2025

Multistate

  • A coalition of 13 state attorneys general issued guidance affirming environmental justice initiatives. The state AGs emphasize that, despite the federal government’s recent efforts to brand these critical efforts as illegal, public and private entities can still lawfully engage in environmental justice work to ensure a healthy environment for all people to live, play, work, learn, and worship. They add that such efforts are an important and effective way to respond to disproportionate environmental and health burdens borne by historically marginalized people and communities.
  • A coalition of 22 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in their efforts to challenge the Trump Administration’s proposed funding cuts targeting these organizations. Amici argue that the cuts will severely hinder the flow of information, including emergency information, educational programming, and reliable news, to communities throughout the country.

Continue Reading State AG News: Public Broadcasting, Debt Relief, Fraud June 19-25, 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 22-28, 2025

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed for injunctions preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) from withholding federal funds that would otherwise be granted to states in response, allegedly due to the states’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement initiatives. The coalition alleges that the withheld funds aid state law enforcement, counterterrorism, emergency services, disaster preparation and relief, repairs to crumbling transportation infrastructure, and transit improvements. Each agency has recently imposed additional conditionsFed on federal funding, such as a requirement that recipients assist in enforcing federal immigration law. The coalition argues that the conditions exceed DHS’s legal authority and further, that immigration is unrelated to the funds at issue.

Continue Reading State AG News: Emissions Standards, Federal Funding, Consumer Protection May 22-28, 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 15-21, 2025

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 40 state and territory attorneys general sent a letter to Congressional leaders opposing a provision in a federal budget reconciliation bill that would bar states from enforcing any state laws or regulations regarding artificial intelligence and automated decision-making systems for the next ten years. The letter argues that the 10-year moratorium with no proposed federal regulatory replacement would “directly harm consumers, deprive them of rights currently held in many states, and prevent State AGs from fulfilling their mandate to protect consumers.”
  • A coalition of 18 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump, supporting the plaintiffs’ challenge to President Trump’s recent executive orders targeting equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility (“DEIA”) programs. The brief seeks affirmation from the Fourth Circuit of a preliminary injunction and argues that the amici States are harmed by the vague terms of the executive orders and their chilling effects on private entities.

Continue Reading State AG News: AI Reconciliation Bill, DEIA, Consumer Protection May 15-21, 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 8-14, 2025

Multistate

  • 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

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. Here are last week’s updates.

Multistate

  • A coalition of 23 state attorneys general announced an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care mandate, which requires private insurers to cover at no cost certain preventive services as determined by the Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force). Amici states argue that the Fifth Circuit erred in finding the Task Force violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and that the preventive care mandate has improved public health outcomes.

Continue Reading State AG News: Affordable Care Act, Gender Identity, CFPB (Feb. 20-26)

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