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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Multistate

  • The New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of five attorneys general reached a $6.5 million settlement with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC  for compromising millions of customers personal information.
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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Multistate:

  • A bipartisan coalition of six attorneys general, led by Attorney General Shapiro, submitted a Borrower Defense Application to the U.S. Department of Education seeking cancellation of the federal student loan debt of
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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of attorneys general asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to more closely monitor and create a rulemaking to regulate providers of Buy-Now-Pay-Later financing. The coalition is concerned that

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Multistate

  • A coalition of nine attorneys general successfully challenged bankruptcy plan in the forty-eight state lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for deceptive advertisement of OxyContin. The bankruptcy plan was approved in Sept. 2021. The

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, November 8, 2021

Antitrust

  • A bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro and California Attorney General Bonta submitted a brief to the Third Circuit asking it to

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, September 6, 2021

Federal Firearm Regulations

  • Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting federal laws restricting the commercial sale of

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, August 16, 2021

Airlines

  • Colorado Attorney General Weiser sent a letter announcing his support for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (“USDOT”) airline refund proposal and its attempt to simplify the refund process.

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, August 9, 2021

Consumer Fraud Act

  • New Jersey Acting Attorney General Bruck announced that the Supreme Court of New Jersey issued an order requiring firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson, Corp. to

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, July 12, 2021

CFPB

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a consent order against fintech company GreenSky, LLC for allowing contractors and other sellers to take out unauthorized loans on consumers’

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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.

Monday, June 28, 2021

CFPB 

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued amendments to the federal mortgage servicing regulations to reinforce economic recovery as foreclosure moratoria expire. The rules, which become effective on

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