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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 28-September 2, 2026:

Multistate Coalition

  • A multistate coalition of 51 attorneys general issued a proposed settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) resolving the coalition’s lawsuit against the company for its alleged deployment of harmful features that create compulsive behavior in children. The settlement will require Meta to pay $17 billion to the states over ten years. It also contains injunctive terms requiring Meta to implement child safety measures, including restrictions on daily use of social media for those under 18 and enhanced reporting requirements.
Continue Reading State AG News: Child Safety, Social Media, Labor and Employment (August 28-September 2, 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 4-10, 2026:

New York

  • New York Attorney General James secured a settlement exceeding $3.9 million from Xponential Fitness, Inc. and its current and former subsidiaries, resolving allegations that the company violated New York’s Franchise Sales Act by providing prospective franchise owners with materially misleading estimates of how long it would take to open new studio locations. OAG’s investigation found that while Xponential consistently disclosed opening timelines of three to six months in Franchise Disclosure Documents filed with the state, the company simultaneously reported substantially longer timelines—as many as 15 months—in annual reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The $3,971,250 settlement will be distributed entirely as restitution to impacted franchisees, with $3,000,000 allocated among 70 franchisees who experienced longer-than-disclosed opening delays and $971,250 paid to 25 franchisees who were ultimately never able to open their studio locations.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, False Advertising, Public Health (June 4-10, 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 May 21-June 3, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 34 attorneys general filed a remedies proposal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to require Live Nation to divest Ticketmaster and certain Live Nation-owned amphitheaters. The proposal follows a jury verdict finding Live Nation/Ticketmaster liable for anticompetitive conduct that harmed consumers and the live music industry. The coalition argues that these structural remedies are necessary to end Live Nation’s illegal monopoly, prevent it from continuing to use its amphitheater ownership to exclude rival promoters and pressure artists, and protect consumers because prior behavioral remedies failed to stop the company’s unlawful conduct.
Continue Reading State AG News: Online Safety, Consumer Fraud, and Antitrust (May 21-June 3, 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 May 15-20, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 18 attorneys general sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency asking it to adjust a proposed public database of chemical facility information. The database is designed to disclose chemical plant and refinery locations, access routes, and accident plans to inform communities about potential environmental risks, but the coalition argues that this information available in aggregate also could be accessed by foreign adversaries and hackers to put the communities at a security risk.
Continue Reading State AG News: Pricing, Infrastructure, Health Care (May 15-20, 2026)

On April 10, 2026, Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court, the Commonwealth’s highest court, allowed a lawsuit brought by the attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against Meta to proceed, stating that Section 230 does not immunize the company from claims that the design of their platforms injure children. Click here to continue reading the…

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 March 19-25, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 13 state Attorneys General sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin calling for an end to the EPA’s “Compliance First” policy on enforcement. The Attorneys General warn that this policy creates barriers to holding polluters accountable and urge a renewed use of “key enforcement tools – including penalties, injunctive relief, and supplemental environmental projects” to more quickly stop pollution and protect communities.
Continue Reading State AG News: Child Safety, Gambling, Unfair Practices (March 19-25, 2026)