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AG Nessel Challenges Trump Administration's Effort to Undermine Affordable Care Act (10)
LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release:
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AG Nessel Challenges Trump Administration's Effort to Undermine Affordable Care Act
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LANSING -Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 states in filing a lawsuit (PDF) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to challenge a federal rule that once again illegally undermines the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would make health insurance more expensive and harder to obtain for millions more PR
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Over Latest Attempt to Weaponize Personal Sensitive Data of Californians (10)
SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 3 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release:
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Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Over Latest Attempt to Weaponize Personal Sensitive Data of Californians
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Trump Administration is attempting to disclose troves of data about Californians receiving financial assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to DHS and other agencies
OAKLAND -California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, co-leading a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit challenging the Trum more PR
Attorney General Clark Announces $358,000 Settlement in Principle With Generic Drug Maker Sandoz (10)
MONTPELIER, Vermont, Aug. 3 -- Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark posted the following news release:
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Attorney General Clark Announces $358,000 Settlement in Principle With Generic Drug Maker Sandoz
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Attorney General Charity Clark today announced a nationwide $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to n more PR
Attorney General James Secures More Than 280,000 Eggs for New York City Families (10)
ALBANY, New York, Aug. 3 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release:
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Attorney General James Secures More Than 280,000 Eggs for New York City Families
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August 3, 2026
NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the delivery of more than 280,000 eggs to City Harvest in Brooklyn as part of a bipartisan multistate settlement with Cal-Maine Foods (Cal-Maine), Versova/Centrum (Versova), and Hickman's Egg Ranch (Hickman's) for years of price fixing. A multistate investigation led by more PR
Attorney General James Sues Trump Administration to Protect Vulnerable New Yorkers' Personal Information (10)
ALBANY, New York, Aug. 3 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release:
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Attorney General James Sues Trump Administration to Protect Vulnerable New Yorkers' Personal Information
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August 3, 2026
NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 23 other states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration over unlawful policy changes that would give the administration broad access to the sensitive private information of millions of families receiving Temporar more PR
Attorney General McCuskey Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Drug Prices and Limit Competition (10)
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 3 -- West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey posted the following news release:
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Attorney General McCuskey Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Drug Prices and Limit Competition
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Attorney General JB McCuskey today announced a $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. The action is to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, red more PR
Attorney General Tong Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Prices and Limit Competition (10)
HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 3 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release:
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Attorney General Tong Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Prices and Limit Competition
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The Settlement Will Result in Total Payments of Approximately $469 Million to State Enforcers by Sandoz
(Hartford, CT)- Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 43 states and territories announcing a $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. to res more PR
Boards, Executives, and the Law: What the Fable Shutdown Reveals About AI Governance Liability (10)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 3 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Frantz Ward, a law firm, posted the following news:
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Boards, Executives, and the Law: What the Fable Shutdown Reveals About AI Governance Liability
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Part One of this series documented the threat environment: the Fable and Mythos pullback, AI-driven malware, autonomous cyberattacks, and the emergence of frontier AI models whose capabilities are being rationed by their own developers. This second installment addresses what is at stake legally when organizations fail to govern AI and da more PR
Capito, Welch Introduce Legislation to Preserve Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (10)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release:
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Capito, Welch Introduce Legislation to Preserve Rural Communities Opioid Response Program
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the RCORP Authorization Act, legislation that would maintain the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program to establish and expand prevention, treatment, and recovery services in rural areas for substance use disorders, related behavioral he more PR
Gaza First Amendment Alert (8/3/26) (10)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 [Category: Political] -- Defending Rights and Dissent issued the following news:
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Gaza First Amendment Alert (8/3/26)
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Escalating Attacks on Independent Media
Upon his return to the United States on July 10, journalist Max Blumenthal was stopped at Dulles International Airport by Custom and Border Patrol agents, who seized two of his mobile phones. Blumenthal was returning from Iran, where he reported on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a journalist for The Grayzone, which he founded and edits. The seizure more PR
National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association Urges BTS to Improve Aggregates Freight Data Quality Timeliness and Granularity (10)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site.
July 31, 2026
Mr. Edward Strocko
Acting Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
c/o Docket Management Facility
U.S. Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140
Washington, DC 20590-0001
Re: Request for Information - Shaping the Future of the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics; Docket No. DOT-OST-2026-1387
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Washington joins federal lawsuit to protect residents' personal information (10)
OLYMPIA, Washington, Aug. 3 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release:
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Washington joins federal lawsuit to protect residents' personal information
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The federal government is seeking to illegally use the sensitive private information of tens of thousands of Washingtonians receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. Washington and a multistate coalition have filed a new lawsuit to protect residents from this unlawful abuse of sensitive personal information.
TANF is one of more PR
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