WinRed Fights Back Against State Attorneys General Investigations
This blog post was written by Foley Hoag Summer Associate, Nicholas Hanel Does federal election law preempt state AG investigations against Political Action Committees? WinRed believes so – the GOP...
View ArticleFour State AGs Launch Consumer Protection Investigation of Major Republican...
This blog post was written by Foley Hoag Summer Associate, Joshua Rosen Major national media sources including The Hill, New York Times, Washington Post, and others, recently reported that four...
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Health Care Entities May Challenge MassHealth Financial Withholdings
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has issued an important ruling for health care entities who are being investigated by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Division and facing...
View ArticleAppeals Court Rejects Argument That Whistleblower Protections Do Not Apply to...
The Texas Appeals Court has recently confirmed that employees of elected officials are protected under the Texas Whistleblower Act. In September 2020, high-ranking officials at the Texas Attorney...
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New York Proposes Broad New Pre-Merger Notification Requirement
The American Bar Association is hosting a panel discussion on New York’s 21st Century Antitrust Act and the pre-merger regime it could create moderated by Austin A.B. Ownbey on March 4. For more...
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Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General – 2022 Preview
This is the fourth post in this year’s series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Our previous post discussed trends in tax enforcement. Up next: trends in sanctions...
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Losses Continue to Mount For ExxonMobil in its Fight to Prevent State...
On March 15, 2022, the Second Circuit rejected an appeal brought by ExxonMobil attempting to block investigations by the New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General into historical claims made by...
View ArticleCalifornia AG Launches Investigation into Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical...
On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution...
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State Attorneys General on the Abortion Frontlines
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, state attorneys general are, not surprisingly, joining the frontlines of the ensuing state-by-state debate on...
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Paxton Whistleblower Saga Concludes in a Settlement and Apology
A little over a year after the Texas Appeals Court rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s argument that the state’s Whistleblower Act does not apply to whistleblowers reporting violations of law...
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