Republican and Democratic AGs Square Up for Emissions Standards Fight

25 Republican AGs have petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the EPA’s rule entitled “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles,” which sets emissions standards for passenger cars, trucks, and vans, model years 2027-2032.
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Eugene DePasquale (D) and Dave Sunday (R) to Face Off for Pennsylvania AG

Former Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale secured the Democratic nomination, and will face the Republican nominee, York County District Attorney Dave Sunday, in the general election this November.
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Republican AGs Bullish on Protecting Consumer Data from Chinese Communist Party

A group of 14 Republican AGs wrote a letter to the CEO of Webull Financial LLC, inquiring into whether Webull—which is both a U.S. and Chinese company—may have exposed customers’ personal information to the Chinese Communist Party in violation of U.S. data privacy and consumer protection laws.
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New York AG to Bank: Freeze! No More Restraining Protected Consumer Funds

New York AG Letitia James entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance with national bank Pathward, N.A., f/k/a MetaBank, to resolve an investigation into Pathward’s handling of customer accounts and settle claims that the bank violated New York’s consumer protection laws and Exempt Income Protection Act, which prohibits banks from freezing consumer accounts containing protected funds, such as government benefits and funds below a certain threshold.
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Federal Agencies Launch Public Portal to Bring Health Care Costs Back into Orbit

The FTC, U.S. DOJ, and HHS have launched an online portal for the public to report potentially unfair and anticompetitive health care practices to the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ.
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Bipartisan AGs Argue Section 230 Immunity for Online Platforms is Untenable “Engine of Human Misery”

A coalition of 20 Republican and three Democratic AGs submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Doe v. Snap, Inc., No. 23-961, urging the Court to grant petitioner’s writ of certiorari and reverse the lower court’s holding that online platforms such as Snapchat enjoy sweeping immunity from claims of liability for harm experienced from online conduct under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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