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

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  • 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.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Medicaid Fraud, Environment May 8-14, 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 April 24 – May 1, 2025

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• A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting Susman Godfrey in its lawsuit challenging a Trump Administration Executive Order. Like EOs issued against other law firms, the challenged order requires federal officials to suspend active security clearances held by the firm’s employees, to refuse to engage with or hire these individuals, and to deny them entry to federal buildings. The orders also directs federal contractors to disclose any business with the firm so that agencies can terminate contracts with the firm’s clients.

Continue Reading State AG News: Civil Rights, Diversity, Consumer Protection April 24-May 1, 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 April 17th to 23rd.

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• A bipartisan coalition of 40 State Attorneys General published an open letter to the Congressional Committee on Appropriations expressing support for the continued funding of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). The LSC, a nonprofit organization established by Congress, is the largest provider of civil legal aid in the country. The coalition argues that the LSC is essential to many Americans’ access to justice.

Continue Reading State AG News: Civil Rights, Tariffs, Healthcare, FTC April 17-23, 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 April 10th to 16th.

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• A coalition of 22 attorneys general sent a letter opposing proposed changes to the ACA that could make it more difficult for individuals to enroll in and obtain affordable healthcare coverage The proposed amendments include removing DACA recipients’ access to insurance; shortening the enrollment period for all state ACA exchanges; and granting health insurance plans the ability to deny enrollment to anyone who missed a health insurance premium payment, regardless of when the payment was missed.

Continue Reading State AG News: Healthcare, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment April 10-16, 2025

State Attorneys General are targeting unfair trade practices in automobile sales, including many of the sales tactics that would have been prohibited under the FTC’s now-vacated CARS Rule. Click here to continue reading the full version of this alert.

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

As the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts continue to make sweeping changes across federal agencies, more than a dozen states have followed suit, launching their own DOGE initiatives that seek to mirror or build upon the federal DOGE. Join our presenters David Ginsberg, Derick D. Dailey, and Yuan Zhou as they explore state-led DOGE activity across the country, and the implications and collateral impacts faced by state and local government contractors. This complimentary webinar is for government contractors only, no outside law firms, government personnel, or press. Click here to register.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta advised California businesses that his office will enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), marking a shift towards state enforcement of the FCPA in the wake of President Trump’s Executive Order. Click here to continue reading.

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.

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• A multi-state coalition of 20 state attorneys general submitted a comment letter opposing the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)’s interim final rule which repeals the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The NEPA requires federal agencies to conduct thorough review of the environmental implications of its projects or rules. The coalition of state attorneys general argue that NEPA’s repeal will have a negative impact on state natural resources and their residents through the adverse effects of climate change. Further, the letter argues that the repeal rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act, NEPA, and the Endangered Species Act.

Continue Reading State AG News: Environment, Healthcare, Labor & Employment March 27 – April 2, 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.

Multistate

  • A bipartisan multistate coalition of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands filed an amici curiae brief in Yoon v. Collins, a case before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in which veterans claiming to be eligible for both the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act have sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regarding benefits limits. The brief argues that it was Congress’s intent to provide expansive education benefits to veterans and their families and that the denial of these benefits violates the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rudisill v. McDonough that a veteran whose length of service qualifies him for entitlements under both G.I. Bills is “separately entitled to each of [the] two educational benefits.”
Continue Reading State AG News: Executive Orders, Labor & Employment, Consumer Protection March 20-26, 2025