The integration of our economy and the rise of technology has made it essential for attorneys general to work cooperatively across state lines if they are to engage in the traditional affirmative enforcement of state laws covering matters such as consumer protection, antitrust, charities, medicaid fraud and illegal internet related. activity Over the last thirty years AG offices have developed protocols for such cooperation and this section explores that process.

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  1. Speaker - Prof. Paul Nolette - Multistate Consumer Actions and Settlements, Website of Prof. Nolette, Marquette University
  2. State Litigation and AG Activity Database, An Overview of State AG Activities: Website of Prof. Nolette:
  3. Jason Lynch, Federalism, Separation of Powers, and the Role of State Attorneys General in Multistate Litigation, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 1998 (2001) (edited)
  4. Philip Mattera and Anthony Kay Baggaley, Bipartisan Corporate Crime Fighting by the States (2019) (Supplemental Research)
  5. Examples of multistate consumer fraud enforcement by attorneys general
    1. Baldwin Accord Criticized, New York Times (Feb. 5, 1985)
    2. Tobacco Litigation of the 1990's
      1. Thomas A. Schmerling, Stag Hunting with the State AG: Anti-Tobacco Litigation and the Emergence of Cooperation Among State Attorneys General, 25 Law & Policy 429 (2003)
      2. Historical summary and perspective on the attorney general tobacco litigation of the 1990's (For Research)
      3. The Public Health Law Center, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Mn. (For Research)
      4. The Fall of Big Tobacco, Part 3, Washington Post, March 31, 1998, CiCi Connolly and John Mintz (Supplemental Reading)
      5. As a Young Lawyer, Gillibrand Defended Big Tobacco - The New York Times, Mar 26, 2009
    3. DIRECTV Settlements Articles (1998, 2005, 2010)
    4. Honda Will Pay $85 Million in Takata Airbag Settlement (to) a group of U.S. states, Autoweek, August 31, 2020
    5. Ct. AG Jepsen Leads Settlement with Career Education Corp. (Jan. 3, 2019) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
  6. Supplemental Readings
    1. NY AG James Release Announces Settlement with Fiat Chrysler (Jan. 2019)
    2. Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 50 AGs Reach $13.5M Settlement with Pharmaceutical Company for Misleading Marketing of Four Drugs – PA Office of Attorney General - Dec 20, 2017
    3. Ct. AG Jepsen DCP Conn Joins Multistate Settlement with Boehringer Ingelheim, Dec 12, 2017
    4. Rating Agency Cases (2009 - 2015)(Supplemental)
    5. Department of Justice, Federal Government and State Attorneys General Reach $25 Billion Agreement with Five Largest Mortgage Servicers to Address Mortgage Loan Servicing and Foreclosure Abuses, 2012, (Supplemental)