FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson has appointed Emma Mittelstaedt Burnham as Associate Director for Healthcare in the Bureau of Competition. Burnham’s background includes 11 years as a prosecutor for the Antitrust Division of U.S. DOJ, where she most recently served as Director of Criminal Enforcement.

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Governors in Alaska, Florida, Missouri and Wyoming have recently announced the appointments of new attorneys general in their states.

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Michigan – Republican private-practice attorney Matt DePerno has filed paperwork to run again for Michigan AG, following his 2022 loss in the general election to incumbent AG Dana Nessel.

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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey announced that his office is investigating and has filed parallel lawsuits against Glass, Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services, two major corporate proxy advising firms, for alleged violations of state consumer protection laws. According to the filings against Glass, Lewis and ISS, the firms may have presented themselves as neutral…

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Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti’s Director of the Strategic Litigation Unit, Whitney Hermandorfer, was nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Missouri AG Andrew Bailey’s Solicitor General Joshua Divine and Principal Deputy Solicitor General Maria Lanahan have been nominated to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District…

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