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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 19, 2021

Bankruptcy

  • Nine attorneys general filed a formal objection to Purdue Pharma’s proposed bankruptcy plan, which shields the Sackler family from legal liability. The attorneys general are arguing that bankruptcy

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Monday, June 7, 2021:

Antitrust

  • June 7, 2021, the New York Senate passed the 21st Century Antitrust Act, S.933-A, which, if passed by the Assembly and signed by the governor, would be New York’s first major antitrust law update in the past century, and which reports indicate would be the strongest antitrust law

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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, May 24, 2021:

Covid-19

  • Colorado Attorney General Weiser announced that he asked the Colorado legislature to invest its American Rescue Act funds into Colorado water projects as well as into prosecuting unemployment

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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, May 17, 2021:

CFPB

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) asked a Massachusetts federal district court to enter a final judgment and order that would require DMB Financial, LLC to pay 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, April 12, 2021:

Federal Matters

  • Arizona Attorney General Brnovich and Washington D.C. Attorney General Racine co-led a bipartisan coalition of 22 attorneys general in a letter asking Congress to provide federal funds

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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, April 5, 2021:

CFPB

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) proposed a series of rule changes to help prevent avoidable foreclosures as the emergency protections expire. The rule changes would, for example,

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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.

March 22, 2021

COVID-19 

  • Minnesota Attorney General Ellison announced that the Minnesota House passed HF844, which makes price gouging illegal during emergencies and gives the Attorney General’s Office enforcement authority. The state

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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, March 1, 2021:

Immigration

  • Illinois Attorney General Raoul joined District of Columbia Attorney General Racine in leading a coalition of 20 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and

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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.

February 15, 2021

Consumer Protection

  • Oklahoma Attorney General Hunter reminded businesses that the price gouging statute is in effect statewide due to winter weather. As part of the announcement, Attorney General Hunter stated,

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