Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 48 states and territories today announced they have won $17.85 million in settlements with Lannett Company, Inc. (“Lannett”) and Bausch Health US, LLC and Bausch Health Americas, Inc. (“Bausch”), to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic prescription drugs. 

Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate a nearly 30-year-old settlement agreement that provides crucial protections against the inappropriate detention of children, including a requirement that they are held in facilities licensed in and subject to oversight by the states in which they reside. 

Attorney General Nick Brown has named Marsha Chien, a leader with an extensive track record in civil rights and workers’ rights, to serve as the first Unit Chief of the newly created Worker Rights Unit in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).

In a multi-state lawsuit co-led by Washington, California, and Colorado, a federal judge issued a final ruling that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) illegally withheld about $1 billion in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program from 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general filed an amicus brief today in support of Minnesota’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s extraordinary campaign of lawlessness during its deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol to the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. 

Attorney General Nick Brown joined a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general today demanding that xAI, the company that owns both the X (Twitter) social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, do more immediately to prevent its chatbot from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. 

In recent weeks, Grok has made this content publicly available at the click of a button, driving harassment and exploitation that deprives people of control over how their bodies and likenesses are portrayed. 

El procurador general del estado de Washington, Nick Brown, ha logrado un acuerdo con un proveedor estatal para proteger los datos privados y personales de más de 1 millón de residentes de Washington que reciben beneficios federales de asistencia alimentaria. 

Un nuevo acuerdo protege la información confidencial de los beneficiarios de SNAP en Washington

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has secured an agreement with a state vendor to protect the private, personal data of more than 1 million Washington residents who receive federal food assistance benefits.