Florida AG James Uthmeier announced that his office is investigating CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) and the Science Based Targets Initiative for potential violations of Florida’s consumer protection and antitrust laws. CDP operates a global environmental disclosure system for companies, capital markets, cities, states, and regions to report and manage their environmental impacts. SBTi,…

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Washington AG Nick Brown announced that Washington is the first state to require companies to file a premerger notification with the state AG’s office concurrently with the federal filing required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. This new requirement, which took effect July 27, 2025, applies to companies or individuals with a principal place of business in…

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The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Apple, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by a bipartisan coalition of 16 AGs and the DOJ. The complaint alleges that Apple illegally maintains a monopoly over smartphones by selectively imposing contractual restrictions on, and withholding critical access points from,…

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The FTC and the U.S. DOJ’s Antitrust Division issued a joint letter to the heads of federal agencies directing them to identify anticompetitive regulations as required by President Trump’s Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers Executive Order (EO). The letters reference the EO’s requirement that agencies identify anticompetitive regulations within their rulemaking authority, and that agencies recommend deletions,…

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A bipartisan coalition of 17 AGs and the U.S. DOJ obtained a favorable ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in their antitrust case against Google LLC. As previously reported, the suit alleged that Google engaged in a systematic campaign to control the digital advertising technology sector through anticompetitive and monopolistic conduct…

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