Crowell’s State AG chair Toni Michelle Jackson will be participating in the DAGA Denver Policy Conference taking place in Denver, CO on September 17-18, 2025. Toni will join the panel “Ensuring and Protecting Access to the Courts.” During this session, Toni and her fellow panelists will discuss different ways in which access to the courts has been limited or restricted and various ways AGs, nonprofits, and law firms are working to address these gaps and ensure justice for all.

Crowell’s Tiffany Aguiar will be a panelist at George Mason University’s (GMU) Nineteenth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues. Hosted by the university’s Law & Economics Center, the symposium brings together judges, scholars, and practitioners to address pressing civil justice issues such as third-party litigation financing; the evolving role of judges in expert testimony admission; recent developments in consumer protection; the latest “super torts;” and assessing multi-district litigation, class actions, and mass arbitrations.

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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 August 14-20, 2025:

Illinois

  • Attorney General Raoul filed a lawsuit to prevent unlawful federal funding cuts that threaten Illinois’ state energy programs. The litigation asserts that the federal government’s proposed reductions would undermine vital clean energy initiatives, consumer protection efforts, and utility affordability across the state. The complaint asserts that these cuts violate statutory requirements and would hinder Illinois’ progress toward its energy and climate goals, particularly impacting vulnerable communities. The lawsuit seeks to block the federal action, preserve funding for energy programs, and ensure that federal agencies comply with legal obligations.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Fraud, AI August 14-20, 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 July 17-30, 2025:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general announced the filing of a complaint challenging the allegedly unlawful final rule promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the coalition argues will create significant barriers to obtaining healthcare under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The complaint asserts that the HHS and CMS rule is unlawful, arbitrary and capricious, and would cause significant harm to states and their residents. It further asserts that the final rule imposes burdensome and costly paperwork requirements, limits the opportunities to sign up for health coverage, substantially increases cost-sharing limits, and forces exchanges and consumers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prove eligibility for coverage and subsidies, resulting in direct and immediate costs to states as well as harms tied to decreased enrollment.
  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed an amicus brief urging the federal judge overseeing the case in Mid-America Milling Company v. United States Department of Transportation to uphold the proposed consent order that would end the federal government’s enforcement of engaging in alleged race-based preferences in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. According to the DBE webpage housed on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s website, this program is designed to ensure that small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals have a fair opportunity to compete for federally funded transportation contracts. According to the Idaho attorney general, the “federal mandate forces states to sometimes reject the most qualified, cost-effective contractors based solely on the race and gender of business owners, resulting in higher costs for taxpayers.”
Continue Reading State AG News: Health Care, Privacy Violation, Contracts July 17-30, 2025

Over the past several months, Missouri and Florida have gone on the offensive against the nation’s largest proxy advisors related to what they deemed “radical” agendas in providing proxy advice. In Texas, two of the largest proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”), punched first, filing separate complaints in federal court against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his official capacity, challenging the facial and as applied constitutionality of Senate Bill 2337 (“S.B. 2337” or “the Act”). The Act would require all proxy advisory services to disclose advice or recommendations that are “not provided solely in the financial interest of the shareholders of a company.” Click here to continue reading the full version of this alert.

State AG Fireside Chat 7.25

On July 29, 2025, Crowell & Moring and the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) hosted a fireside chat with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and New York Chief Deputy Attorney General Chris D’Angelo moderated by Crowell Privacy & Cybersecurity Partner Linda Malek. The discussion centered on emerging compliance and enforcement priorities in state data privacy and cybersecurity, and concluded with an opportunity for attendees to network with the state officials and other in-house counsel.

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 July 10-16, 2025:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 15 attorneys general announced that it is withdrawing its motion for a preliminary injunction in New Jersey v. Bondi, a lawsuit to prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) from distributing previously seized Forced Reset Triggers (“FRTs”) back into the community. FRTs are used to turn semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic machineguns and were previously illegal under federal law. Thus, ATF previously seized approximately 12,000 FRTs after extensive retrieval operations. However, ATF reversed course. According to the coalition’s complaint, ATF has dropped pending enforcement actions against individuals who allegedly possessed FRTs and agreed to return seized FRTs back to its previous owners. The coalition stated that it was withdrawing its motion for a preliminary injunction after the Government agreed not to return FRTs to the coalition states. 
Continue Reading State AG News: Federal Funding and Deceptive Practices July 10-16, 2025
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Register now to join Crowell & Moring on July 29, 2025 from 5:00 pm EDT – 7:30 pm EDT for a fireside chat with Attorney General William Tong of Connecticut. Given the dramatically changing federal landscape of privacy and cybersecurity regulation and enforcement, the role of the states in protecting privacy and cybersecurity has become even more important. This event will present the opportunity for participants to benefit from hearing an informal discussion with special guest Connecticut Attorney General William Tong about data and cyber priorities for the State of Connecticut. As a national leader in this area, AG Tong will also discuss how State Attorneys General offices coordinate enforcement efforts with each other, and expectations around compliance.   

The program will begin at 5 pm, followed by cocktails and networking at 6:30 pm.

Crowell & Moring is pleased to host this program in conjunction with the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA). 

This program is intended for companies only. Please no private law firms, government employees, or press.

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 July 3-9, 2025:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs suing the U.S. Department of Labor for terminating Job Corps, a national career training program for young, low-income Americans. The brief seeks injunctive relief and argues that the Amici States will be irreparably harmed by the closure of nearly one hundred Job Corps centers across the country, which also provide housing to program participants.
  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general won a preliminary injunction blocking Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to restructure and reduce the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued an order enjoining HHS from implementing or enforcing any reductions in force or sub-agency restructuring, and requiring HHS to file a status report on or before July 11, 2025, apprising the court of their compliance.
Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Federal Funding, Antitrust Lawsuits July 3-9, 2025