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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 24-30, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders urging Congress to establish a federal framework for overseeing artificial intelligence development and to protect state authority to regulate AI by prohibiting federal preemption of state laws. The coalition outlined several core principles it believes federal AI legislation must address, including: mandating safety testing and performance standards; requiring transparent and uniform incident reporting with publicly available findings; ensuring that AI safety infrastructure and leadership operate independently of commercial incentives; pursuing international coordination to manage the pace of AI advancement and prevent the emergence of uncontrollable superintelligence; and expressly preserving the authority of state officials to enforce both federal and state AI protections.
Continue Reading State AG News: AI Regulation, Data Protection, Food Safety (September 24-30, 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 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 September 10-17, 2026:

Multistate

  • A coalition of 21 attorneys general filed two lawsuits to protect endangered and threatened species. The suits allege that new rules undermine essential protections for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act.
  • A bipartisan coalition of 49 attorneys general urged the Federal Communications Commission to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to help prevent scammers from using U.S. phone networks to make unlawful robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to take steps to not regularly pass through unlawful calls.
Continue Reading State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Consumer Fraud, Environmental Policy (September 10-17, 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 September 3-9, 2026:

Multistate

  • A multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general, co-led by Illinois Attorney General Raoul and the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts, filed suit challenging a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prohibiting federal Medicaid and CHIP reimbursement for gender-affirming care for beneficiaries under ages 18 and 19, respectively, while continuing to cover the same treatments when provided to non-transgender youth. The coalition argues that since the creation of Medicaid and CHIP in the 1960s, Congress has reserved to states the authority to determine which services are covered under their programs, and that HHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lack statutory authority to categorically exclude medically necessary services from reimbursement based solely on the patient’s transgender status. The complaint alleges violations of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Spending Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The rule is set to take effect on October 13, 2026.
Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Healthcare, Voting (September 3-9, 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)

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)

On August 19, 2026, the FTC issued a press release outlining the agency’s proposed Enforcement Policy Statement on personalized pricing putting businesses on notice that using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices without clear and conspicuous disclosures — including the fact of personalization, its basis, and the data used — may constitute a deceptive…

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 9-16, 2026:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 42 attorneys general announced a multistate settlement with the bankruptcy trustee for 23andMe, resolving allegations stemming from a 2023 data breach that compromised the genetic data of 6.9 million customers worldwide. The settlement includes $150 million in allowed claims for states, but due to the finite amount of funds in the bankruptcy estate, the court limited recovery to $18 million which will be paid out immediately.
Continue Reading State AG News: Robocalls, Fintech, Administrative Law (July 9-16, 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)