The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the request of 13 Democratic AGs to intervene in the court’s review of a U.S. DOJ antitrust settlement regarding the $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and Juniper Networks.

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FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak was appointed Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. Holyoak, a Republican, was appointed to the Commission by President Biden and had served in that role since March 2024. Before that, Holyoak served as Utah Solicitor General. Alaska Senior Assistant AG Aaron Peterson was nominated to serve on the U.S.…

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Six Democratic AGs submitted a comment letter in opposition to a proposal by the U.S. Department of the Interior to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule (Public Lands Rule). The Public Lands Rule recognizes conservation as a valid “use” of federal public lands that is on the same footing as…

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Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell and California AG Rob Bonta co-led a group of 23 Democratic AGs and three governors in filing a renewed motion for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Trump Administration to prevent the federal government from clawing back Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits affecting more than 42 million Americans.

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A group of 19 Democratic AGs—along with the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania—secured a final judgment in their lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s 10 percent cap on reimbursements for state energy programs’ indirect costs and fringe benefits. As we previously reported, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted summary judgment…

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