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.
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