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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 29-June 11, 2025

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  • 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

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 22-28, 2025

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  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed for injunctions preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) from withholding federal funds that would otherwise be granted to states in response, allegedly due to the states’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement initiatives. The coalition alleges that the withheld funds aid state law enforcement, counterterrorism, emergency services, disaster preparation and relief, repairs to crumbling transportation infrastructure, and transit improvements. Each agency has recently imposed additional conditionsFed on federal funding, such as a requirement that recipients assist in enforcing federal immigration law. The coalition argues that the conditions exceed DHS’s legal authority and further, that immigration is unrelated to the funds at issue.

Continue Reading State AG News: Emissions Standards, Federal Funding, Consumer Protection May 22-28, 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 highlights from April 3-9, 2025.

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• 12 state attorneys general sent letters to twenty law firms demanding that the firms comply with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) March 17 letter requesting information to determine whether the law firms had engaged in any illegal and discriminatory actions through their diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”)-related employment policies.Continue Reading State AG News: Labor & Employment, State AG Office News, Consumer Protection April 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. Here are last week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Updates: January 23-February 5, 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. Here are last week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Blog Updates: October 31 – November 13, 2024

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. Here are last week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Blog Updates: October 17 – 30, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced his plans to sign Senate Bill 1037, a bill designed in response to the “statewide housing shortage crisis” that will give Attorney General Rob Bonta new civil penalty authority to hold municipalities accountable from the moment they purportedly first violate the state’s housing laws. This marks a significant change in the law.Continue Reading California to Empower Attorney General with Increased Authority to Ensure Cities Comply with State Housing Laws

With the increase in state-federal collaboration, now is the time to ensure that your company is in the best position to engage with and address potential regulatory enforcement actions. In light of the uptick in intergovernmental investigative and enforcement collaboration, namely among federal agencies such as the Department of Justice (DOJ), and individual state authorities like state attorneys general offices (AGs), AGs are growing their enforcement capacity and increasing their activity in areas that have historically been left to federal agencies.Continue Reading State AG Collaboration With Federal Agencies Is on the Rise