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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 November 6-12, 2025:

Multistate

  • A coalition of state attorneys general secured a $5.1 million settlement with education technology provider Illuminate Education, Inc., resolving alleged violations of state laws as a result of a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of students. Illuminate Education, Inc. agreed to strengthen data security measures in conjunction with the settlement.

Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, False Advertising, Data Privacy (November 6-12, 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 October 30-November 5, 2025:

Multistate

  • A coalition of five state attorneys general sent letters to US Plastics Pact, Consumer Goods Forum, and Green Blue Institute alleging that the groups have violated the Sherman Act and state antitrust law by advocating for private companies to adopt “restrictive plastic production and packaging standards,” which the state AGs argue unlawfully restrain competition, increase costs, and limit consumer choice.
  • A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general announced a $4.8 million settlement with online clothing retailer TFG Holdings, Inc. The settlement resolves claims that the company misrepresented prices on its website, automatically enrolled people into the VIP program without their consent and then made it hard for customers to cancel those memberships, in violation of state consumer fraud statutes.

Continue Reading State AG News: Antitrust, False Advertising, Data Privacy (October 30-November 5, 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 September 25-October 1, 2025:

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 19 state attorneys general, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced a settlement under numerous state and federal False Advertising and Unfair Competition laws with Kars4Kids regarding alleged deceptive charitable solicitation practices. The settlement resolves claims that Kars4Kids misled donors about how contributions would be used and requires payment of restitution and changes to solicitation practices.

Continue Reading State AGs Advance Consumer Protection Through Settlements, Lawsuits, and New Initiatives

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 26-July 2, 2025

Arizona

  • Attorney General Mayes secured a court order that blocked the Trump administration from withholding public safety grant funds from Arizona due to the state’s immigration enforcement policies. The court’s decision, issued under the federal Administrative Procedure Act and related public funding statutes, found that the administration’s attempt to restrict funding was unlawful. The order granted injunctive relief, prohibiting the federal government from withholding these grant funds and ensuring Arizona’s continued access to public safety resources; no monetary damages were specified.

Continue Reading State AG News: Public Safety Grants, Unfair Competition, Consumer Fraud June 26-July 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. Below are the updates from May 29-June 11, 2025

Multistate

  • A bipartisan coalition of 42 attorneys general sent a letter to the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Banking Committee regarding the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act of 2025 (H.R. 2808 and S. 1467). The letter urges Congress to pass this legislation to end the abusive use of mortgage credit triggers and seeks to preserve the use of mortgage credit to narrowly defined, consumer consented circumstances.
  • A coalition of 8 attorneys general announced a contempt order was filed against John Spiller, owner of Rising Eagle Capital Group, JSquared Telecom, and Rising Eagle Capital Group-Cayman, which offered robocall dialer and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol ) services to telemarketers. Spiller allegedly helped facilitate large volumes of robocalls, including many targeting numbers on the Do Not Call Registry, through his telemarketing service companies. Spiller is required to pay $600,000 in attorney’s fees and litigation costs for violating a 2023 court order that barred him from placing or facilitating robocalls.

Continue Reading State AG News: Robocalls, False Advertising, Inflated Rent May 29-June 11, 2025

Companies who make ambitious marketing claims about purported clean energy efforts may find that they are exposed to litigation under the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act (DCCPPA). The DCCPPA is an expansive consumer protection law that confers standing on any person, or nonprofit organization, to sue either on behalf of herself or “in the public interest” for false advertising. A recent DCCPPA lawsuit against energy giant, Exxon Mobil Corporation, serves as the latest example of a swelling risk to corporate defendants who may be subject to suit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Companies should thus carefully advertise their clean energy efforts, or other forward-leaning activities, in a manner that closely and accurately reflects the steps it is taking to achieve those goals.
Continue Reading DC’s Consumer Protection Law Presents Risks for Companies Advertising Clean Energy Efforts: Just Ask Exxon

Last week the Supreme Court unanimously held that §13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act does not give the Federal Trade Commission the power to seek equitable monetary relief such as disgorgement or restitution. The Court’s opinion in AMG Capital Management LLC v. Federal Trade Commission removes a powerful tool that the FTC has long relied on to pursue monetary relief for consumers in both consumer protection and competition matters.Continue Reading The Supreme Court Limits FTC’s §13(b) Powers