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 19-25, 2025

Multistate

  • A coalition of 13 state attorneys general issued guidance affirming environmental justice initiatives. The state AGs emphasize that, despite thefederal government’s recent efforts to brand these critical efforts as illegal, public and private entities can still lawfully engage in environmental justice work to ensure a healthy environment for all people to live, play, work, learn, and worship. They add that such efforts are an important and effective way to respond to disproportionate environmental and health burdens borne by historically marginalized people and communities.
  • A coalition of 22 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in their efforts to challenge the Trump Administration’s proposed funding cuts targeting these organizations. Amici argue that the cuts will severely hinder the flow of information, including emergency information, educational programming, and reliable news, to communities throughout the country.

Continue Reading State AG News: Public Broadcasting, Debt Relief, Fraud June 19-25, 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 29-June 11, 2025

Multistate

  • 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