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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 September 24-30, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders urging Congress to establish a federal framework for overseeing artificial intelligence development and to protect state authority to regulate AI by prohibiting federal preemption of state laws. The coalition outlined several core principles it believes federal AI legislation must address, including: mandating safety testing and performance standards; requiring transparent and uniform incident reporting with publicly available findings; ensuring that AI safety infrastructure and leadership operate independently of commercial incentives; pursuing international coordination to manage the pace of AI advancement and prevent the emergence of uncontrollable superintelligence; and expressly preserving the authority of state officials to enforce both federal and state AI protections.
Continue Reading State AG News: AI Regulation, Data Protection, Food Safety (September 24-30, 2026)

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 September 10-17, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 21 attorneys general filed two lawsuits to protect endangered and threatened species. The suits allege that new rules undermine essential protections for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act.
  • A bipartisan coalition of 49 attorneys general urged the Federal Communications Commission to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to help prevent scammers from using U.S. phone networks to make unlawful robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to take steps to not regularly pass through unlawful calls.
Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Consumer Fraud, Environmental Policy (September 10-17, 2026)

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 13-19, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 21 attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, challenging a federal directive seeking access to the Commercial Driver’s License Information System, a database of CDL holder records maintained by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). The lawsuit alleges that the agencies improperly threatened to terminate all federal grants and contracts with the AAMVA if the organization refused to provide the data. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of multiple federal privacy laws and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Continue Reading State AG News: Data Privacy, Consumer Protection, Administrative Law (August 13-19, 2026)

On August 19, 2026, the FTC issued a press release outlining the agency’s proposed Enforcement Policy Statement on personalized pricing putting businesses on notice that using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices without clear and conspicuous disclosures — including the fact of personalization, its basis, and the data used — may constitute a deceptive…

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 16-August 12, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 19 attorneys general moved to intervene in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Secretary Pete Hegseth, alleging that the DoD unlawfully froze routine national security reviews of land-based wind energy projects across the country, effectively blocking more than 100 wind projects. The coalition argues that the DoD’s “Wind Freeze” violates the Administrative Procedures Act and undermines state sovereign, economic, and policy interests.
  • A coalition of 20 attorneys general sent a letter to federal financial regulators to raise concerns about granting national banking charters to financial tech (“fintech”) companies without adequate safeguards to protect consumers and the financial system. The coalition warned that some fintech lenders use predatory tactics to target the financially vulnerable in violation of state laws and that extending banking privileges to cryptocurrency firms and emerging platforms could add risk to the financial system unless safeguards are implemented.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Antitrust, Environmental Regulation (July 16-August 12, 2026)

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 4-10, 2026:

New York

  • New York Attorney General James secured a settlement exceeding $3.9 million from Xponential Fitness, Inc. and its current and former subsidiaries, resolving allegations that the company violated New York’s Franchise Sales Act by providing prospective franchise owners with materially misleading estimates of how long it would take to open new studio locations. OAG’s investigation found that while Xponential consistently disclosed opening timelines of three to six months in Franchise Disclosure Documents filed with the state, the company simultaneously reported substantially longer timelines—as many as 15 months—in annual reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The $3,971,250 settlement will be distributed entirely as restitution to impacted franchisees, with $3,000,000 allocated among 70 franchisees who experienced longer-than-disclosed opening delays and $971,250 paid to 25 franchisees who were ultimately never able to open their studio locations.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, False Advertising, Public Health (June 4-10, 2026)

Register now to join Crowell partners Matt Ferraro, Joanna Forster, and Jennie VonCannon as they explore AI liability, focusing on chatbots and generative AI, recent rulings on product liability in the digital realm, and new laws. This session will provide high-level legal strategies to manage risk and liability across AI applications, including white-label chatbots, virtual assistants, synthetic media, and employment tools. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT.

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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 May 15-20, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 18 attorneys general sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency asking it to adjust a proposed public database of chemical facility information. The database is designed to disclose chemical plant and refinery locations, access routes, and accident plans to inform communities about potential environmental risks, but the coalition argues that this information available in aggregate also could be accessed by foreign adversaries and hackers to put the communities at a security risk.
Continue Reading State AG News: Pricing, Infrastructure, Health Care (May 15-20, 2026)

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, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 11 attorneys general submitted a letter opposing the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) proposal to extend and expand its collection of data regarding backup power generation. The coalition argues that EIA’s cited authority does not authorize it to gather the requested information and the proposal imposes a significant administrative burden on state air agencies.
Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Privacy Violations, Antitrust Lawsuit (May 8-14, 2026)

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 April 23-29, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 38 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of Massachusetts’ lawsuit against the prediction market platform Kalshi for offering illegal sports betting in violation of Massachusetts’ gambling laws. Primarily a sports gambling platform, Kalshi argues that the bets it offers are financial instruments that should be regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), thus preempting state regulations and legalizing the operations nationwide. State attorneys general assert in their brief that behaviors of prediction markets like Kalshi are subject to states’ gambling laws, noting that this is a vital consumer protection issue.
Continue Reading State AG News: Sports Betting, Credit Agencies, Grocery Stores (April 23-29, 2026)