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 3-9, 2025:
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- A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs suing the U.S. Department of Labor for terminating Job Corps, a national career training program for young, low-income Americans. The brief seeks injunctive relief and argues that the Amici States will be irreparably harmed by the closure of nearly one hundred Job Corps centers across the country, which also provide housing to program participants.
- A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general won a preliminary injunction blocking Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to restructure and reduce the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued an order enjoining HHS from implementing or enforcing any reductions in force or sub-agency restructuring, and requiring HHS to file a status report on or before July 11, 2025, apprising the court of their compliance.
- A multistate coalition of 17 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in Doe v. Noem, a lawsuit seeking to preserve parole processes for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The Amici States argue that the preliminary injunction issued by the district court should be upheld because the termination of “the parole status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants severely harms the public interest.”
- A multistate coalition of 16 attorneys general filed a proposed amicus brief in Oregon v. United States DOGE Service, a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s termination of federal funding for a variety of public humanities programs. The brief argues that the Amici States have and will continue to be irreparably harmed as they are “forced to terminate or furlough staff, cancel programming and events, and pull support for local libraries, schools, and families.”
- A multistate coalition of 16 attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Education for terminating programs for mental health services in K-12 schools. The complaint seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, arguing that the termination of funding from these programs will harm children, lead to layoffs of mental health professionals, and will force states to terminate grant programs for graduate student training for school-based mental health services.
- The U.S. Department of Justice and a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general defeated a motion to dismiss filed by Apple in an antitrust lawsuit filed in March 2024. The lawsuit alleges that Apple engaged in anticompetitive conduct by blocking apps that would make it easier to leave the Apple ecosystem; suppressing mobile cloud streaming services; excluding cross-platform messaging apps; diminishing functionality of non-Apple smartwatches; and by limiting third-party digital wallets, in addition to a host of other issues.
- A multistate coalition of 21 attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development challenging a proposed rule to rollback fair housing regulations prohibiting discrimination. The letter states that Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations are critical to eradicate segregation and discrimination and argues that any rescission of these regulations would violate the Administrative Procedure Act and contravene the text and purpose of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
- A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed an amicus brief to support a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for terminating the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program. The brief argues that the termination violates Constitutional separation of powers and the Administrative Procedure Act, and that the Amici States would be irreparably harmed as these funds were already slated to go to hundreds of non-profit organizations, dozens of cities and counties, and various Native American Tribes located within the States’ borders.