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Oct 3, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Samuel Fishel |Whitney Shephard
This article was originally published on October 2, 2024 in Westlaw Today. It is republished here with permission. Gene Fishel and Whitney Shephard of Troutman Pepper highlight states with established privacy enforcement units, discuss the corresponding privacy acts in those states, and give recommendations for companies to mitigate risk and navigate a rapidly developing patchwork of regulatory standards.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Samuel Fishel |Brent Hoard |Susie Lloyd
On September 4, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), challenging two key Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules — the 2000 Privacy Rule and the newly implemented 2024 Privacy Rule. These rules were enacted to protect the privacy of individuals’ protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Samuel Fishel |Sadia Mirza |Stephen C. Piepgrass
On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton announced the creation of a team dedicated solely to the prosecution and enforcement of Texas’ privacy laws. The team will focus on handling cases under at least seven different laws, including the state’s relatively new comprehensive consumer privacy law, and will be part of the office’s Consumer Protection Division.
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May 16, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (Spirit), a subsidiary of a company that produces fuselages for Boeing’s 737 jets, has filed a lawsuit against Texas in response to the attorney general’s (AG) recently initiated investigation into the company’s alleged manufacturing issues — which the AG says led to midair emergencies earlier this year.
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May 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*On May 8, attorneys general (AG) from 14 states and the District of Columbia sent a letter to Congressional leadership opposing provisions of the recently proposed federal American Privacy Rights Act (APRA). In addition to the District of Columbia, the signatory states include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
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May 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*On Wednesday, attorneys general (AG) for the states of Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia announced that they are joining Tennessee and Virginia in a multistate coalition challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) “Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)-recruiting ban.” Troutman Pepper previously reported on the lawsuit after the District Court entered a preliminary injunction order in February.
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May 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*On April 17, a group of five state attorneys general (AG) and Google filed briefs defending the proposed $700 million settlement agreement reached in three antitrust suits[1] brought against Google. The proposed parens patriae settlement, originally reached in December 2023, earmarks roughly $515 million to settle the claims of 127 million consumer class members, providing an average consumer award of $4.41.
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May 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*On April 23, Rhode Island Attorney General (AG) Peter Neronha, approved the merger of Rhode Island PBS and The Public’s Radio. The Rhode Island PBS Foundation and the Public’s Radio submitted their initial merger application on November 16, 2023, and supplemented their application on January 12.
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May 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*On April 11, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of the State of California arguing that policyholders should be able to assert claims under the state’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) independent of a one-year claim filing deadline under the California Insurance Code and their homeowners policy. The AG argues that the UCL’s four-year statute of limitations should apply, not the one-year window mandated.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Timothy J. Bado |Christopher Carlson |Samuel Fishel
[co-author: Stephanie Kozol]*Washington Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson prevailed in his lawsuit against a plastic surgery practice, Allure Esthetic, and its owner, Dr. Javad A. Sajan (collectively, the company), alleging violations of the federal Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), based upon the company’s practice of requiring patients to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that prohibited them from posting negative online reviews.
