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Iowa, Oklahoma AGs Join Ongoing Wave of Roblox Scrutiny

AGs in Iowa and Oklahoma advanced separate consumer protection actions against Roblox over allegations that the gaming platform misrepresented its child-safety protections and exposed minors to unsafe online interactions. In Iowa, a court partially denied Roblox’s motion to dismiss AG Brenna Bird’s Iowa Consumer Fraud Act lawsuit, allowing the State’s deception claims and several unfair-practices…

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Florida AG Subpoenas NFL Over Rooney Rule

Florida AG James Uthmeier issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL as part of his probe into whether the league’s Rooney Rule and related diversity hiring policies violate Florida law. According to reports, the subpoena commands the NFL to appear at the AG’s office and seeks documents including diversity reports, coaching census data, and demographic…

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Indiana Takes On Roblox, Discord Over Child Safety Claims

Indiana AG Todd Rokita sued Roblox and Discord for allegedly violating the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by marketing their platforms as safe for children while failing to implement sufficient protections against online predators. According to the complaint, Roblox allegedly allows children to create accounts without meaningful age verification and exposes minors to unsafe interactions…

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States Ask CFTC Not to Overplay Its Hand

A bipartisan coalition of 41 AGs submitted a comment letter to the CFTC urging the Commission to affirm that sports-related prediction market “event contracts” fall under state gambling authority, not exclusive federal commodities jurisdiction, continuing a debate over authority between state and federal regulators seeking to oversee prediction markets. In the letter, the coalition argues…

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