The FTC has secured a settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Company (Deere) now allowing farmers the right to repair their own John Deere tractors and farm equipment. The settlement resolves the FTC and five states joint lawsuit against Deere, filed in January 2025, which alleged that Deere used unlawful…

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California AG Bonta is leading a multistate coalition of 12 AGs in filing a lawsuit challenging the $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (Warner Bros.) by Paramount Skydance Corporation (Paramount). The lawsuit alleges that the merger violates Section 7 of the Clayton Act, which holds that mergers that may substantially lessen competition or…

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Connecticut AG William Tong announced a multistate settlement has been reached with the bankruptcy trustee for genetic testing company 23andMe, resolving allegations stemming from a 2023 data breach alleged to have compromised the genetic data of 6.9 million customers worldwide, including in some cases genetic ancestry information. The settlement includes $150 million in allowed claims…

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WV AG JB McCuskey is leading a 23-state coalition in a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to delay “Tier 4” vehicle emission standards. The EPA is proposing to push back the phase-in of certain emission standards from model year 2027 to 2029 or later for “Tier 4” pollutants…

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Shopify has announced this week it will ban all e-cigarettes (vapes) from its platforms. This decision comes after pressure in November 2025 from a multistate group of state AGs aiming to tackle illegal electronic cigarette sales online. Since last year, the bipartisan coalition of AGs have been urging Shopify to do more to tackle the…

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