Maryland AG Anthony Brown has announced settlements with seven opioid drug manufacturers including Alvogen, Amneal, Apotex, Hikma, Mylan, Sun, and Zydus. Maryland is expected to receive over $13 million from the multistate settlement. The AGs alleged that for decades these seven companies have manufactured and sold generic opioids including oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl patches throughout the U.S., and that each of…

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Maryland AG Anthony Brown and North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson announced separate settlements with Mylan resolving allegations that the company used anticompetitive tactics to maintain EpiPen’s market dominance and drive up prices for the life-saving allergy medication. According to the AGs’ offices, Mylan allegedly suppressed generic competition through exclusionary contracts with pharmacy benefit managers, delayed…

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Maryland AG Anthony Brown and the FTC reached a settlement with the Lindsay Automotive Group and related entities to resolve allegations that the dealerships violated the Maryland Consumer Protection Act and the FTC Act through deceptive pricing, misleading financing claims, and unauthorized add-on charges.

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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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D.C. AG Brian Schwalb, Maryland AG Anthony Brown, and former Virginia AG Jason Miyares settled with two fraudulent youth club nonprofits and their founder to resolve allegations that they misrepresented the nature of what donations would be used for, in violation of consumer protection laws and laws governing nonprofits in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

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