Pennsylvania and New York secured significant conditions on Colas Inc.’s acquisition of Suit-Kote Corp., two asphalt and road-maintenance companies, after the Justice Department ended its review. The states’ continued scrutiny illustrates how state attorneys general can pursue merger remedies when federal regulators step aside, but state or local competition concerns remain.
A bipartisan coalition of 39 state attorneys general (AGs), joined by the District of Columbia, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a closely watched dispute over whether federally regulated prediction markets may offer sports-event contracts without complying with state gambling laws.
On October 2, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission, and the attorneys general of Utah and Nevada, sued online contact lens retailer Lens.com, alleging that the company advertised contact lenses at prices significantly lower than what consumers ultimately paid after mandatory “Taxes & fees” charges were added during checkout. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, reflects recurring themes in consumer protection enforcement, including price transparency, online sales practices, automatic renewal programs, and coordinated federal-state enforcement.
On September 9, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) circulated a draft order that would narrow how consumer revocations of consent apply under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). If adopted, callers could treat certain opt-out requests as limited to the category of automated calls or texts at issue, rather than as revocation of all prior consent. The draft order, listed as “TCPA Modernization,” is scheduled for a vote at the FCC’s September 30 open meeting.
On September 8, 2026, a bipartisan coalition of 49 state and territorial attorneys general filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to make its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements mandatory for voice service providers. The coalition is led by North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, who also chairs the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force. The filing follows the coalition’s July 27 letter to the FCC seeking stronger vetting obligations for originating voice service providers and extends that position to providers that accept and route traffic further down the call path.
On August 31, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by the attorneys general (AGs) of 22 states, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging that Amazon.com, Inc. overcharged its approximately 1.2 million advertising customers by manipulating the auctions it uses to set ad prices on its platform. The complaint alleges that, for more than seven years, Amazon covertly inflated advertising prices and that the alleged practice likely extracted more than $20 billion from its advertising customers. Amazon has not responded to the complaint yet, and the allegations have not been proven in court.
On September 2, 2026, a group of tobacco product manufacturers and retailers filed a complaint in federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2021 premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) rule. Plaintiffs take aim at a regulation they say has made it virtually impossible for the FDA to authorize new tobacco products within the timeline Congress set more than 15 years ago. The case raises fundamental questions about whether a federal agency can adopt a regulatory process that, by design, cannot meet its own statutory deadlines.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Connecticut Attorney General (AG) William Tong announced a $4 million settlement this week with Manchester City Nissan, resolving allegations that the dealership systematically charged customers unauthorized fees.
On August 14, 2026, Corteva, Inc. agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Arkansas attorney general (AG) alleging that the pesticide maker’s rebate and loyalty programs functioned as de facto exclusive dealing arrangements that suppressed competition from generic pesticide manufacturers.
The alcoholic beverage industry has always been a visual business. A sun-drenched vineyard on a wine label, the amber glow of whiskey in a crystal tumbler, a frosted pint glass beading with condensation — these images are the currency of alcohol marketing. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) can generate all of them in seconds, at a fraction of the cost of a traditional photo shoot.