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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

  • Montana Attorney General Knudsen is leading a coalition of 17 Republican attorneys general that filed an amicus brief in a challenge to a Hawaii law prohibiting the carry or possession of firearms
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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

  • 41 attorneys general filed multistate lawsuits against social media company Meta. The lawsuits, in both federal and state courts, allege that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on Instagram
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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 50 state attorneys general announced a settlement with software company Blackbaud after a 2020 ransomware attack which resulted in the exposure of highly sensitive information. The settlement requires
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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 22 state attorneys general, led by Tennessee Attorney General Skrmetti, sent a warning letter to the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA) stating their coordinated commitments may
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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 seven attorneys general submitted a letter to U.S. congressional leaders urging support of legislation to protect investors’ privacy. The legislation is S.2230/H.R. 4551, the Protecting Investors’ Personally Identifiable 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 coalition of 30 state attorneys general sent comments to the Federal Trade Commission in a bipartisan effort to improve collaboration between the attorneys general and the FTC. The FTC solicited 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.

Multistate

  • A coalition of 21 attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting former employees of Saks department stores who were harmed by agreements between Saks and other sellers of luxury brand goods —
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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 Matters

  • A coalition of 14 attorneys general submitted a letter urging the Biden Administration to adopt a more comprehensive strategy to combat the plastic waste pollution crisis. The coalition urges the EPA
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