Seven Democratic AGs, co-led by North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, sent letters to the six largest Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) providers seeking information about their lending practices and whether they are complying with state consumer protection laws. In their letters, the AGs note that point-of-sale financing has become increasingly common in online shopping. They raise concerns that…

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California AG Rob Bonta and the City of New York were joined by a bipartisan coalition of 24 AGs in sending a letter to Shopify Inc., urging the company to crack down on merchants using its e-commerce platform to sell illegal e-cigarettes and other unlawful tobacco products. The AGs allege that many Shopify-hosted sellers offer…

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A bipartisan coalition of 36 AGs sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject any effort to include a ban on state artificial intelligence (AI) laws in upcoming federal legislation, including reported attempts to insert such language into a military funding bill.

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A group of 21 Democratic AGs, co-led by New York AG Letitia James, Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha, and Hawaii AG Anne Lopez, won summary judgment in their lawsuit to stop the implementation of an Executive Order that would effectively dismantle four federal agencies: the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development…

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the request of 13 Democratic AGs to intervene in the court’s review of a U.S. DOJ antitrust settlement regarding the $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and Juniper Networks. The AGs moved to intervene based on their concerns that the deal’s…

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