Dirt Diggers Digest _A new report from
the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First on lawsuits filed by state
attorneys general shows that the current cases against the drug companies and
the tech sector are part of a long-standing practice of bipartisan cooperation
in fighting corporate misconduct.
The report focuses on 644 cases in which AGs from multiple states took
on companies over issues ranging from mortgage abuses to illicit marketing of
prescription drugs and collected more than $100 billion in settlements over the
past two decades.
These multistate cases are a subset of more than 7,000 state AG actions
compiled for the latest expansion of Violation Tracker
and now available for searching on the database.
In at least 260 multistate cases, a majority of the states signed on
as plaintiffs.
In 172 of the cases, 40 or more states participated.
State AGs are split almost evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
meaning that the cases with large numbers of state participants are
necessarily bipartisan.
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