Arkansas AG Tim Griffin announced staffing changes within the office’s Special Investigations Division that reflect an increasing focus on cyber threats. The office hired Jessica Middleton into the new Cybersecurity Analyst role, promoted Walter Mahone—who serves as Director of the Cyber Crimes Unit—to Deputy Chief of the full Division, and promoted Special Agent Amber Kalmer to…

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Arkansas AG Tim Griffin has announced the promotions of Christine Cryer to Deputy Attorney General of the Public Protection Division, and Jordan Broyles, a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Litigation Division, to assume the additional duties of Chief, Special Litigation Section. The AG also announced that the Consumer Utility Rate Advocacy Division was being moved under the leadership of Deputy Attorney General Doralee Chandler, who leads the State Agencies Division.

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Arkansas AG Tim Griffin has filed a lawsuit against YouTube, LLC, Google LLC, XXVI Holdings Inc., and parent company Alphabet Inc. (collectively, “YouTube”) alleging that the platform’s deceptive practices and defective design are harming consumers in violation of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Arkansas Public Nuisance Law and that YouTube has been unjustly enriched…

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Arkansas AG Tim Griffin has filed a lawsuit against PDD Holdings Inc. and WhaleCo Inc., d/b/a Temu, alleging that Temu’s popular online shopping app operates as malware that is designed to gain unauthorized access to users’ data in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Personal Information Protection Act. According to the complaint,…

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A group of 27 Republican AGs and a group of six Democratic AGs submitted dueling comment letters regarding the EPA’s proposed Clean Water Act (CWA) Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category, which would extend the agency’s authority to regulate meat and poultry facilities’ indirect discharge of wastewater,…

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