In early August, the National Association of Attorneys General, led by its 2025 President, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, hosted the Presidential Initiative Summit in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. General...more
8/18/2025
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Drug Trafficking ,
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Law Enforcement ,
Mental Health ,
National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) ,
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Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Public Health ,
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Social Media ,
State Attorneys General ,
Substance Abuse
Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against Early Warning Services LLC (EWS), the parent company of digital payment network Zelle. AG James asserts that Zelle was designed “without critical...more
8/18/2025
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Fraud ,
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Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
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Scams ,
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Zelle
Regulatory enforcement priorities can vary greatly between individual states and between the states and the federal government. But as we have previously reported, there is one area where regulators across the board tend to...more
8/14/2025
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Enforcement Actions ,
FCC ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Robocalling ,
State Attorneys General ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Telemarketing Sales Rule
Last week, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released a webinar and business guidance to help companies comply with upcoming regulations on junk fees and negative option contracts. The webinar and guidance cover a...more
8/6/2025
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Consumer Contracts ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
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Fees ,
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New Regulations ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
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Subscription Services ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
In a recent webinar hosted by Kelley Drye, Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford and Chief Deputy of Consumer Protection Mark Krueger shared valuable insights into best practices for engaging with the office, Nevada’s...more
7/25/2025
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Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Nevada ,
Opioid ,
Price Gouging ,
Price-Fixing ,
Social Media ,
Solar Energy ,
State Attorneys General ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
This week, two state attorneys general on very different ends of the political spectrum announced separate actions related to purported discrimination by AI services. Missouri sent inquiry letters to four Big Tech companies...more
7/15/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Big Tech ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Misrepresentation ,
Settlement ,
State Attorneys General ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
In the last post of our three-part series, we discuss the final day of sessions at the 2025 Attorney General Alliance (AGA) Annual Meeting, which explored novel approaches for law enforcement collaboration, effective ways to...more
7/2/2025
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Drug Trafficking ,
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Social Media ,
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Technology Sector ,
Wage and Hour
Last week, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from ten other states, and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation wrote the Consumer Protection...more
Twice a year, state attorneys general consumer protection staff gather to discuss consumer protection issues. Our state attorney general team was at the public sessions, attending and presenting on issues important to AGs. We...more
Late Friday, the FTC announced that the Commission had voted 3-0 to extend the compliance deadline for the to-be-effective provisions of the Negative Option Rule, formerly known as the “Click to Cancel Rule.” While the...more
5/12/2025
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Contract Terms ,
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Negative Option Rule ,
Pending Litigation
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued Snap, Inc., the operator of the social media platform Snapchat, last week for violations of Florida’s HB 3 (§§ 501.1736–.1738, Fla. Stat. (2024)) and the Florida Deceptive and...more
Last week, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced a lawsuit against Discord, Inc., a popular messaging application provider, for allegedly misleading parents about the efficacy of its safety controls and...more
On April 8, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) announced the appointment of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday as the new co-chair of NAAG’s Consumer Protection Committee. The Committee’s mission is...more
This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with app developer Saturn Technologies (Saturn) following an investigation into privacy practices that promised teens an exclusive community but...more
3/13/2025
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
COPPA ,
Data Privacy ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Minors ,
Mobile Apps ,
New York ,
Privacy Policy ,
Settlement ,
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State Privacy Laws ,
Statutory Violations ,
UDAP ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
What’s going on with Michigan’s consumer protection statute? How does the Michigan Attorney General’s Office operate? And what are its enforcement priorities?...more
Many state Attorneys General are celebrating Consumer Protection Week this week by releasing their top consumer complaint categories, summarizing their past year’s successes, and/or providing consumer education. As the AG...more
If you have been following our blogs, it should be no surprise that the Attorneys General remain focused on combatting Organized Retail Crime (ORC) using available state and federal tools....more
2/28/2025
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Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
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Enforcement Actions ,
Fraud ,
Grants ,
Retail Market ,
Retailers ,
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Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
Last week, a coalition of all 23 democratic attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland warning against efforts by the Trump Administration to defund and disband the...more
As we’ve discussed previously, price gouging has been a focus for enforcers in the past few years, and 2025 is proving no different. In the past month alone, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the California...more
On January 17, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced that his office had reached a resolution in its nearly two-year lawsuit against Puppyland, a local pet store that sells and provides financing for (you guessed...more
In its final days under the Biden administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called on states to step it up – following soon after Director Chopra’s December appearance at the NAAG Capital Forum....more
Last week, the Kelley Drye State Attorneys General team hosted an in-person forum, 2025 Consumer Protection Enforcement Forum: Anticipating State AG Priorities and Regulatory Shifts, in our Washington, DC office. The event...more
Last week, a coalition of 22 state AGs filed an amicus brief in support of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cease-and-desist order that prohibits tax software giant Intuit (the creator of TurboTax) from certain advertising...more
The Attorney General Alliance (AGA) hosted its 2024 Annual Meeting this June, bringing together State AGs, staff, and industry for discussions on a number of topics important to AGs, including AI (again), nonpartisan...more
General Kris Mayes recently filed two new lawsuits against Amazon.
The first accuses Amazon of using “dark patterns,” or digital design tricks, that make it difficult for consumers to cancel their Prime subscriptions....more