Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell, California AG Rob Bonta, and Maryland AG Anthony Brown co-led a coalition of 17 Democratic AGs in suing the U.S. Department of Education and OMB over a new mandate requiring colleges and universities to turn over sweeping amounts of disaggregated student data, alleging the rushed rollout violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act.

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A group of 21 Democratic AGs obtained a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from taking further steps to dismantle the agency. In the court’s order, it found that the states and plaintiffs from a consolidated lawsuit were likely to succeed in demonstrating the unlawfulness of the DOE’s reduction in force and…

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A group of 19 Democratic AGs filed a lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from enforcing a directive conditioning federal education funding on certification that state and local education agencies will not engage in illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. The complaint argues that the certification directive wrongfully departs from a longstanding,…

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A bipartisan coalition of 52 AGs filed an amicus brief in Yoon v. Collins, a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, in support of two veterans and their families who challenged the denial of G.I. Bill education benefits by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In their brief, the amici argue that…

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A group of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a temporary restraining order blocking Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would reduce to 15 percent all indirect cost rates for NIH grants; indirect cost rates cover research institutions’ operational, administrative, and overhead expenses. In the complaint, the…

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