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Mintz

I Heart FTC: Proposed New York Bill Would Continue Biden FTC’s Antitrust Vision and Policies [Updated on July 16, 2025]

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After the FTC issued a replacement of the 2016 Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals on January 16, 2025, Commissioner – now Chair – Andrew N. Ferguson, joined by Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, punctuated his...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Committee chairman asks Fed inspector general to investigate CFPB, Chopra for potential abuses

On June 26, the Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Rep. Don Meuser (R-PA), sent a letter to the acting inspector general for the Fed and CFPB to investigate...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Litigation Updates — June 2025

The SEC’s mandatory climate disclosure rule remains stayed pending the outcome of the current litigation in the Eighth Circuit. Recently, however, Republican SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda suggested that the Trump administration...more

Cooley LLP

Trump CFPB Asserts Narrower Role for State Enforcement of Federal Consumer Law

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On May 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule that rescinded a May 2022 interpretive rule regarding the extent of states’ enforcement authority under Section 1042 of the Consumer...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Predicting Where State AGs Will Direct Their Attention in 2025

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In the first installment of this two-part article, state attorneys general across the U.S. took bold action in 2024 to address what they perceived as unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting: Enforcers’ Roundtable

The Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy profes­sionals globally, with lawyers, academics, economists, enforcers, journalists, and students from around the world....more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting: Merger Trials: Winning Strategies

The Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy profes­sionals globally, with lawyers, academics, economists, enforcers, journalists, and students from around the world....more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting: AG Antitrust Enforcement: “State” of Play

During the first Trump and Biden administrations, state attorneys general upped their emphasis on bringing antitrust cases, and that trend seems to be continuing into the early days of the second Trump administration. The ABA...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting - Antitrust under Trump: Redo of the first term, or something new?

The Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy profes­sionals globally, with lawyers, academics, economists, enforcers, journalists, and students from around the world....more

Cozen O'Connor

State AG Pulse | With the Reshaping of Government, More Power To State AGs

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In State AG Pulse Episode 2 of Season 5, as the new administration pursues actions that will fundamentally reshape US government, former Arkansas AG, now Cozen O’Connor State AG Group Co-Chair, Dustin McDaniel and team...more

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Democratic AGs Oppose CEQ’s Repeal of NEPA Regulations

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Nineteen Democratic AGs and the Harris County Attorney (Houston, Texas) have submitted comments opposing the President’s Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) Interim Final Rule (Proposed Rule), which would repeal CEQ’s...more

Goodwin

2024 Year in Review - Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends

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Welcome to the “Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. As Goodwin predicted in our previous year in review, the enforcement and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: A Return to Regulatory Humility? What Advertisers Can Expect From the FTC

It would be an understatement to say that the first weeks of the second Trump Administration have been intense. Dizzying? Possibly. Whiplashing? On some fronts, yes. Between rolling back DEI and levying, pulling back, and...more

King & Spalding

White House Rescinds Memorandum Freezing Federal Spending

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Two days after the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum freezing all federal grants until at least February 10, 2025, the OMB issued a memorandum reversing the spending freeze....more

Cozen O'Connor

Republican AGs Counter Latest Student Loan Repayment Relief Efforts

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A group of 23 Republican AGs, led by Missouri AG Andrew Bailey and Kansas AG Kris Kobach, wrote a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) expressing opposition to the ED’s Proposed Rule which would...more

Morgan Lewis

The Pendulum Swings: Role of State Attorneys General to Increase as Federal Control Changes

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With the election of Donald Trump as president, we anticipate increased activism by Democratic state attorneys general in the form of legal challenges to his administration and the exercise of independent state authority in...more

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Nebraska Attorney General Leads Multi-State Coalitions to Challenge Electric Truck Mandates

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Nebraska Attorney General (AG) Mike Hilgers is leading multi-state coalitions in two lawsuits aimed at challenging the Biden Administration and the State of California’s electric vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 3.22.24

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A lawsuit challenging the federal government’s interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling in Sackett v. EPA on waters of the United States, or WOTUS, was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - State AG Insights

State Attorneys General Take Action on Artificial Intelligence

The evolving use of artificial intelligence (AI) across different industries has thrust states into a difficult and rapidly developing regulatory arena. State Attorneys General have and will continue to play an essential role...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act: Recent Updates

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Just over a year has passed since President Biden signed the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act (the State AG Venue Act or Act) into law, and state attorneys general (AG) have already taken advantage of the law’s...more

Hogan Lovells

The Biden Administration and State Attorneys General continue to take aim at eliminating “junk fees”

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In his recent State of the Union address, President Biden echoed his administration's commitment to tackling "junk and hidden fees," defined as charges to consumers providing little to no value and preventing clear...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

INFORM ACT Takes Effect June 27: What Businesses Need to Know

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the INFORM Act will take effect on June 27. Businesses with an online presence should understand what the new law means and how to prepare to avoid penalties. See Gibney’s prior...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Iowa AG Joins 21-State Letter Against New DOE Gas Stove Regulations

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On April 3, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) announced her participation in a 21-state letter, opposing new Department of Energy (DOE) gas stove regulations that the states claimed would prohibit the sale of more than...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New Merger Guidelines – What Clues Can We Learn from the Public Comments?

The Biden Administration intends to reshape merger enforcement as part of its broader initiative to change U.S. antitrust law. In keeping with the Administration’s goals, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - April 2022 #5

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California attorney general subpoenas ExxonMobil, opens major investigation into plastic pollution - The Mercury News - April 28 - California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday announced a major investigation into...more

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