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Attorneys General
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Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
States Tighten Oversight of Private Equity in Health Care
By Virginia Bell Flynn, Tina Safi Felahi
Private equity’s footprint in health care has expanded rapidly over the past decade, and in response states have begun to retool long‑standing doctrines and create new guardrails that target ownership,…
Subject to Inquiry
State AGs Step Up Enforcement: Recent Lessons from Privacy Law Enforcement in Connecticut and Nebraska
By Nathanael Williams, Erin Ashwell, Eric Olshan
As comprehensive state privacy laws continue to take root across the United States, recent enforcement actions by the attorneys general of Connecticut and Nebraska highlight an important shift — ensuring…
State AG Blog
State AG Updates: July 27-August 2, 2023
By Tiffany Aguiar, Toni Michelle Jackson
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates. Multistate Matters A coalition of 14 attorneys general…
Ad Law Access
This Summer’s Hot Topic: AGs and AI
By Paul Singer, Abigail Stempson, Beth Chun, Kaelyne Yumul Wietelman
This summer has been hot all around, but perhaps the hottest topic on the minds of state attorneys general (AGs) continues to be artificial intelligence (AI). As we recently heard from…
Food Safety News
Recess dust-up may turn into fall’s Battle Royal as pork-producing states want California out of their business
By Dan Flynn
The EATS Act, to stop California from regulating America’s farms and ranches by protecting states’ authority to regulate agriculture within their borders, is turning into a significant dustup that is…
Cannabis Legal Highlights
State AGs Call for Congressional Action on Copycat THC Edibles
By Andrew Kline, Will Rava, Barak Cohen, Tommy Tobin
More than 20 state attorneys general (AGs) authored an open letter to congressional leaders calling for legislation that would regulate tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) edibles that mimic the packaging and names of…
Criminal
More than two dozen attorneys general urge Congress to extend crack retroactivity to offenders left behind by <em>Terry</em>
Back in June, as discussed here, the Supreme Court embraced a limiting interpretation in Terry v. US, No. 20–5904 (S. Ct. 2021), as to who can secure resentencing based on…
Expert Institute Insights
Debt Agency Settles with 41 Attorneys General Over Data Breach Impacting 21 Million Americans
Medical data collection has hopefully become a little safer. On March 11, 2021, the Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau (doing business as “American Medical Collection Agency” or “AMCA”) entered into a nationwide…
Antitrust and Competition Report
Recent cases highlight limitations in price-gouging enforcement
By John P. Feldman, Michelle A. Mantine, Toam Rubinstein, Danielle Stewart
Since the start of the global pandemic, state attorneys general continue to actively pursue price-gouging investigations against individuals and entities, but courts seem to be taking a different, more business-friendly…
State AG Insights
Top 3 State AG Trends to Watch in 2020
Out of all governmental agencies, state attorneys general are likely to have the greatest impact on privacy enforcement in 2020 for the average business. Over the past few years, state…