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By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
The 2026 election season is poised to bring substantial changes to the roster of state AGs. On November 3, voters in 30 states and the District of Columbia will decide AG races, and the results are set to influence legal and policy outcomes well beyond state lines. For companies operating in these states, the stakes are concrete: AGs now sit at the center of enforcement affecting technology, consumer protection, gambling and prediction markets, health care, consumer financial services (including Tribal lending), privacy, and other regulated areas.
By Stephen C. Piepgrass, Lindsay J. Austin, and Jason Smith
With the midterm elections approaching, congressional staff are already building target lists of industries and companies for the next wave of oversight. In this episode of Regulatory Oversight, host Stephen Piepgrass is joined by his colleague Jason Smith, a former Senate staffer with more than 12 years on Capitol Hill, and Troutman Strategies principal Lindsay Austin, to discuss how a shift in congressional leadership and committee dynamics could shape investigations in the months ahead.
By David Navetta, Stephen C. Piepgrass, Edgar Vargas, and Daniel Waltz
Regulatory Intelligence Platform is a curated, AI-enabled database of privacy, cybersecurity, and AI enforcement by state AGs and other privacy regulators. It captures actions, settlements, sweeps, announcements, and stated priorities. It applies detailed taxonomies to identify the different flavors of regulatory actions and the details of AG settlements. We have captured hundreds of regulatory activities dating back to 2020 and continue to monitor new activity. We expect the platform’s utility to increase significantly with time as we gather more data and gain further insights.
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Laura Hamady, and Shelby Dolen
State AGs are signaling that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot user data will face scrutiny, even in bankruptcy. On October 14, a bipartisan coalition of AGs from 39 states and the District of Columbia filed a notice in the Chapter 11 case of Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI), outlining the child-safety and privacy protections they will press for in any sale. The notice comes just days before California announced a $6 million settlement with the successor to 23andMe, resolving claims over 23andMe’s 2023 data breach and ending California’s appeal of the 2025 bankruptcy sale of customers’ genetic data, the closest precedent for a Character.AI sale. AI companies, acquirers, and investors should take note.
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
A bipartisan coalition of 39 state 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.
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
On October 19, California AG Rob Bonta announced a $6 million settlement with Chrome Holding Co., the successor to the genetic testing company 23andMe. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that California filed against the company in May 2026 arising from a 2023 data breach as well as California’s objections to 23andMe’s sale of consumers’ genetic data as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. California’s settlement comes on the heels of a recent settlement with the 42 other state AGs who filed proofs of claim in the bankruptcy proceedings.
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
The state of Texas secured a $45 million settlement from Gilead Sciences Inc. over allegations that its patient-support programs improperly encouraged prescriptions for drugs covered by Medicaid. This case highlights both how patient-support services can draw scrutiny when they provide something of value to prescribers, even when no money changes hands, as well as the ongoing role of state AGs in health care enforcement.
By Stephen C. Piepgrass and Reade Jacob
On October 20, New Jersey AG Jennifer Davenport and the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) announced that a set of data-driven responsible gaming requirements has been codified into state regulations with the force of law. New Jersey is now the first state to require these measures by regulation. The final regulations are available here.
Dave Sunday, Pennsylvania
Dave Sunday was elected as Pennsylvania’s AG in November 2024, taking office in January 2025. Before running for AG, Sunday served as York County district attorney, a post he won in 2017 and held from January 2018 until becoming AG. Earlier in his career, Sunday prosecuted cases in the York County District Attorney’s Office and supervised its major crimes and narcotics units.
Sunday is a career litigator and has extensive felony jury trial experience. In 2013, Sunday was appointed as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where he assisted in prosecuting gang, illegal gun, and drug cases. During this time, he led the prosecution of Operation Sunrise, a large-scale multijurisdictional arrest and prosecution of more than 100 members and affiliates of the “Latin Kings,” a violent criminal gang operating in York County.
Beyond trial work, Sunday is a past president of the York County Bar Association and a former chair of the York Opioid Collaborative. He also chaired the Education and Training Committee of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association (PDAA).
After high school, Sunday joined the Navy as an enlisted recruit and was deployed to the Persian Gulf, where he participated in Operation Desert Strike. He was also deployed to South America, where he conducted numerous counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean. After his military service, he received his undergraduate degree in finance from Penn State University in 2002 and graduated from Widener University Commonwealth Law School in 2007.
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