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Foley Hoag’s State Attorney General Investigations lawyers offer their experience, insight and skill to help your business through the considerable challenges of an AG investigation or enforcement action.

Update: The Supreme Court’s Decision in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport (formerly Platkin)
Blog May 11, 2026
If you are a regular reader of State AG Insights, you know that we have previously blogged about First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin (now Davenport, with the end of Attorney General Platkin’s tenure and Attorney General Davenport’s recent appointment), a case concerning the ability of a crisis pregnancy center to challenge an administrative subpoena issued by the New Jersey Attorney General…
SCOTUS Considers Pre-Enforcement Challenges to State AG Subpoena: Oral Arguments in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin
Blog December 05, 2025
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, Docket No. 24-781, on December 2, 2025, concerning the administrative subpoena sent by the New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin to First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a pro-life crisis pregnancy organization in November 2023…
State AGs Take the Lead in First Month of Trump Opposition
Blog February 20, 2025
The first month of the second Trump Administration has been marked by a deluge of executive orders and federal agency directives aimed at implementing the new administration’s policy priorities…
The Funding Games: America’s Clean Energy and Infrastructure Funding Under the Trump Administration
Blog February 14, 2025
As we warned in a January 29 client alert, President Trump’s Executive Orders and the subsequent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum ordering federal agencies to “temporarily pause” any and all activities related to funding disbursements and obligations were “just the beginning…
An Impoundment By Any Other Name
Blog January 29, 2025
A Monday night memorandum issued by the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) ordered federal agencies to “temporarily pause” all federal funding and other agency activities that “may be implicated by” the slew of executive orders Trump issued last week…
Recent Trends of State Attorneys General in Healthcare Regulation
Blog July 01, 2024
State Attorneys General play a significant role in shaping health care policy across the country. We outline several recent developments among State Attorneys General nationwide impacting healthcare companies, including issues related to medical billing and debt, hospital acquisitions and administration, and reproductive and gender-affirming care…
State Attorneys General Take to the Courts on the EEOC’s Final Regulation Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Blog June 24, 2024
Multiple state attorneys general took legal action against and in support of the EEOC’s final regulation implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Two recent federal district court decisions resulted in divergent outcomes…
State Attorneys General Take Actions on Ghost Guns
Blog May 16, 2024
While State Attorneys General are limited to enforcing laws within their respective states, their enforcement activities often implicate businesses located elsewhere but whose business activity crosses state lines. One area where we have seen a rising trend in enforcement, particularly among Democratic AGs, is concerning ghost guns…
State Attorneys General Weigh in Amidst Supreme Court Case That Could Restrict Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone
Blog March 04, 2024
Attorneys general across the country have joined in litigation related to mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortions. A case currently before the Supreme Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, could affect access to the drug by invalidating FDA guidelines from 2016 and 2021 that loosened restrictions on prescribing and administering mifepristone…
Massachusetts Claims Against ExxonMobil Survive — Wave of the Future or Litigation Sideshow?
Blog June 25, 2021
This week, Judge Karen Green denied Exxon Mobil's motion to dismiss claims brought by Massachusetts under its Consumer Protection Act. The complaint alleges that Exxon Mobil both mislead Massachusetts investors in its marketing to them of Exxon Mobil securities and mislead Massachusetts consumers in its marketing of its products to those consumers.  Judge Green rejected Exxon Mobil's arguments that it was not subject to jurisdiction in Massachusetts with respect to these claims…
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Foley Hoag’s State Attorney General Investigations lawyers have the experience, the insight and the skill to guide your business through the considerable challenges of an AG investigation or enforcement action.

Our team knows firsthand how the AG and her line assistants approach investigations. Our legal team includes a former Massachusetts Attorney General, a former chief deputy attorney general, a former first assistant attorney general, a former deputy attorney general, a former chief of the business and labor bureau, a former deputy chief of the criminal bureau, and four partners who served as assistant United States attorneys.

Foley Hoag will work closely with you to develop and implement winning strategies to achieve your objectives and successfully resolve the investigation. And if there is no reasonable alternative but to litigate, our lawyers, including American College of Trial Lawyers fellows, have a record of substantial courtroom success. Whatever the path, we will fight to protect the reputation of your business and neutralize any adverse public relations implications arising from the AG action.