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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 September 18-23, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general announced a $694 million settlement with Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC), one of the nation’s largest subprime auto lenders. CAC allegedly provided loans it knew or should have known that consumers could not afford and allowed unlawful “packing” of Vehicle Service Contracts (VSC) and Guaranteed Asset Protection (GAP) products onto consumer auto loans. The settlement provides $60 million in cash restitution for consumers who received particularly risky loans, $388 million in debt relief for consumers whose vehicles were repossessed, and $246 million in debt relief to allow consumers to keep their vehicles, plus $15 million paid to the states. CAC will also be required to provide pre-loan risk disclosures, institute a seven-year vehicle price cap of 109% of retail book value, implement off-ramps for quickly failing loans, and establish enhanced dealer monitoring.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Settlements, Federal Regulation (September 18-23, 2026)

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 20-27, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 48 states and territories, announced by Idaho Attorney General Labrador and others, reached a $29.6 million settlement with generic drug manufacturer Glenmark to resolve allegations that the company participated in a long-running conspiracy to artificially inflate prices, suppress competition, and unreasonably restrain trade in numerous generic prescription drugs, in violation of federal antitrust laws. The Glenmark settlement follows earlier settlements with Lannett, Bausch, Apotex, and Heritage totaling $66.95 million, and comes as the states prepare for a first trial anticipated to be scheduled in late 2026 in Hartford, Connecticut. As part of the agreement, Glenmark will cooperate in the ongoing multistate litigations against 33 corporate defendants and 25 individual executives and will implement a series of internal compliance reforms. Idaho is one of only two states in the coalition that also secured restitution for businesses—not only consumers—that were indirectly affected by the price-fixing scheme.
Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Food and Beverage (August 20–27, 2026)

In a recently published article, Ken Dintzer and Toni Michelle Jackson examine the growing power of state attorneys general in antitrust enforcement and analyze the significant legal, structural, and strategic implications for corporate counsel and deal teams as state-level merger scrutiny accelerates beyond federal oversight. Click here to read the full article.

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 13-19, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 21 attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, challenging a federal directive seeking access to the Commercial Driver’s License Information System, a database of CDL holder records maintained by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). The lawsuit alleges that the agencies improperly threatened to terminate all federal grants and contracts with the AAMVA if the organization refused to provide the data. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of multiple federal privacy laws and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Continue Reading State AG News: Data Privacy, Consumer Protection, Administrative Law (August 13-19, 2026)

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 16-August 12, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 19 attorneys general moved to intervene in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Secretary Pete Hegseth, alleging that the DoD unlawfully froze routine national security reviews of land-based wind energy projects across the country, effectively blocking more than 100 wind projects. The coalition argues that the DoD’s “Wind Freeze” violates the Administrative Procedures Act and undermines state sovereign, economic, and policy interests.
  • A coalition of 20 attorneys general sent a letter to federal financial regulators to raise concerns about granting national banking charters to financial tech (“fintech”) companies without adequate safeguards to protect consumers and the financial system. The coalition warned that some fintech lenders use predatory tactics to target the financially vulnerable in violation of state laws and that extending banking privileges to cryptocurrency firms and emerging platforms could add risk to the financial system unless safeguards are implemented.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Antitrust, Environmental Regulation (July 16-August 12, 2026)

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 2-8, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general submitted a comment letter urging the Trump Administration to withdraw a proposed information collection request associated with Executive Order 14398, “Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors.” The proposed collection would impose reporting, recordkeeping, and information-sharing obligations on federal contractors and subcontractors in connection with a new prohibition to be included in federal contracts related to DEI activities. The coalition argued that the proposed collection would violate the Paperwork Reduction Act, that the public notice did not provide enough information for meaningful public comment and underestimated the burden on contractors, and that the proposal does not establish adequate protections for sensitive and personally identifiable information.
Continue Reading State AG News: Food Distributors, Pet Stores, Healthcare (July 2-8, 2026)

A recent enforcement action led by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison along with a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general signals an accelerating and coordinated crackdown on competitively sensitive information-sharing arrangements. Click here to read 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 updates from June 25-July 1, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 17 attorneys general settled with egg producers Cal-Maine Foods, Centrum/Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch, alleging that the companies conspired to coordinate their bidding activities to artificially inflate daily egg prices published by Urner Barry, a benchmark pricing service. The settlement requires the egg producers to donate more than 53 million eggs and make non-penalty, monetary payments totaling $3.3 million to the states for consumer protection enforcement.
Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, Voting, Affordable Housing (June 25-July 1, 2026)

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 11-17, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general won a lawsuit challenging a federal government order to freeze all permitting for wind energy projects. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the Trump administration’s appeal after the administration chose to drop the case, cementing a lower court ruling that the freeze was arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.
  • A multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging the federal administration’s alleged imposition of unclear and confusing requirements to end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives on state agencies contracting with the federal government. The complaint alleges that federal agencies violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to provide notice or accept public comments, exceeding their legal authority, and neglecting to adequately explain or justify the new requirements.
Continue Reading State AG News: Administrative Law, Antitrust, Civil Rights (June 11-17, 2026)

In a recently published Law360 article, “A Look At The Court’s Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case,” Ken Dintzer, Astor Heaven, and Alyssa Alvarez examine the landmark antitrust verdict against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, and analyze the significant legal, structural, and strategic implications for stakeholders across the entertainment and sports ticketing industries as the…