AG election developments this week clarified the field in Alabama and Georgia, with Alabama’s GOP primary heading to a runoff and Georgia’s general-election matchup now set.

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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 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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Michigan AG Dana Nessel secured a settlement with Monsanto Company, Solutia Inc., and Pharmacia LLC to resolve allegations that the companies’ PCB-containing products caused environmental contamination in Michigan. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are toxic chemicals that build up in natural resources and are now banned for sale and manufacture in the U.S. Michigan alleged that…

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The FTC reached a $35 million settlement with Shutterstock, Inc. over allegations that the stock photo and video platform violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by charging consumers without informed consent and making subscriptions difficult to cancel. According to the FTC’s complaint, Shutterstock allegedly failed to clearly disclose that certain…

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