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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 August 14-20, 2025:

Illinois

  • Attorney General Raoul filed a lawsuit to prevent unlawful federal funding cuts that threaten Illinois’ state energy programs. The litigation asserts that the federal government’s proposed reductions would undermine vital clean energy initiatives, consumer protection efforts, and utility affordability across the state. The complaint asserts that these cuts violate statutory requirements and would hinder Illinois’ progress toward its energy and climate goals, particularly impacting vulnerable communities. The lawsuit seeks to block the federal action, preserve funding for energy programs, and ensure that federal agencies comply with legal obligations.

Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Fraud, AI August 14-20, 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 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 July 10-16, 2025:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 15 attorneys general announced that it is withdrawing its motion for a preliminary injunction in New Jersey v. Bondi, a lawsuit to prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) from distributing previously seized Forced Reset Triggers (“FRTs”) back into the community. FRTs are used to turn semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic machineguns and were previously illegal under federal law. Thus, ATF previously seized approximately 12,000 FRTs after extensive retrieval operations. However, ATF reversed course. According to the coalition’s complaint, ATF has dropped pending enforcement actions against individuals who allegedly possessed FRTs and agreed to return seized FRTs back to its previous owners. The coalition stated that it was withdrawing its motion for a preliminary injunction after the Government agreed not to return FRTs to the coalition states. 

Continue Reading State AG News: Federal Funding and Deceptive Practices July 10-16, 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 July 3-9, 2025:

Multistate

  • 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.

Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Federal Funding, Antitrust Lawsuits July 3-9, 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 June 26-July 2, 2025

Arizona

  • Attorney General Mayes secured a court order that blocked the Trump administration from withholding public safety grant funds from Arizona due to the state’s immigration enforcement policies. The court’s decision, issued under the federal Administrative Procedure Act and related public funding statutes, found that the administration’s attempt to restrict funding was unlawful. The order granted injunctive relief, prohibiting the federal government from withholding these grant funds and ensuring Arizona’s continued access to public safety resources; no monetary damages were specified.

Continue Reading State AG News: Public Safety Grants, Unfair Competition, Consumer Fraud June 26-July 2, 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 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 June 12-18, 2025

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 55 State Attorneys General, representing all US states and territories, announced a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin and other synthetic opioids, and the Sackler Family, Purdue’s owners. The settlement would resolve all pending litigation against the Sacklers and the family’s pharmaceutical company for their involvement in the opioid crisis in the United States. Most of the settlement funds are earmarked to support addiction recovery in impacted communities throughout the country. This announcement comes about year after the Supreme Court struck down the last proposed nationwide settlement with Purdue Pharma, finding that the U.S. Bankruptcy Code would not allow Purdue to shield members of the Sackler family from liability.  
  • A multistate coalition of 19 State Attorneys General filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of New York in support of Jobs Corps—a national job training and vocational program. The Jobs Corps program, which the Trump Administration attempted to dismantle last month, provides professional training and housing to thousands of young Americans who are at risk of homelessness without the program. The amicus brief supported Jobs Corps’ motion for preliminary injunction against the department of labor’s elimination of the program.  

Continue Reading State AG News: Common Scams, Inflated Costs Post-Natural Disasters, Underpaid Wages June 12-18, 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

Multistate

  • 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

On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the “U.S. Antitrust Agencies”) filed a Statement of Interest supporting thirteen states’ claims that asset managers violated antitrust and consumer protection law through their environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) activities. The Statement, which opposes the asset managers’ motion to dismiss the…