A group of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a temporary restraining order blocking Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would reduce to 15 percent all indirect cost rates for NIH grants; indirect cost rates cover research institutions’ operational, administrative, and overhead expenses. In the complaint, the…

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A group of 15 Democratic AGs wrote a comment letter to the FCC in support of the agency’s proposed rule Promoting Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Through Handset Unlocking Requirements and Policies (Rule), which would require mobile service providers to unlock consumers’ phones within 60 days of activation. In the letter, the AGs argue that the…

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Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell settled with Franklin Credit Management Corporation (Franklin Credit), to resolve allegations that the mortgage servicer violated the commonwealth’s foreclosure-prevention law and debt collection regulations. According to the settlement, Franklin Credit, in servicing “zombie” second-lien mortgages—mortgages which became unsecured debt subject to collection following foreclosure of a first-lien mortgage—allegedly failed to timely communicate…

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A group of 20 Democratic AGs, led by Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell, has filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, LLC., dba Triton Distribution, et al., No. 23-1038, urging the Court to reverse a Fifth Circuit opinion that set aside the FDA’s…

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A coalition of 19 Democratic AGs is calling on the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to move quickly to implement its proposed regulations that would waive or reduce student loan repayment for certain groups of federal student loan borrowers. ED’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued in April 2024 proposes to give ED the discretion…

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