News & Updates
AG Racine Announces District Borrowers Will Receive $146K+ from Nationwide Settlement with Mr. Cooper Over Mortgage Servicing Failures
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a coalition of 51 Attorneys General reached an $86.3 million settlement with Mr. Cooper, a mortgage servicer, resolving allegations that the company violated consumer protection laws while servicing mortgage loans nationwide.
AG Racine Announces Bates Trucking Must Pay $78K for Unlicensed Trash Hauling in Residential Neighborhoods Before 7AM
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a settlement requiring Bates Trucking Co. Inc., a solid waste disposal company, to pay $78,702 to the District for illegally collecting in residential neighborhoods, including Dupont Circle and Logan Circle, late at night and early in the morning…
AG Racine Reaches $2.5 Million Agreement with DoorDash for Misrepresenting that Consumer Tips Would Go to Food Delivery Drivers
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a settlement with DoorDash, Inc., a food delivery service, requiring it to pay $2.5 million to resolve allegations that it misled D.C. consumers and used tips left for workers to boost the company’s bottom line.
AG Racine Announces Apple Will Pay $2.6M+ to District for Deceiving iPhone Users About Battery Problems and Throttling Performance
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that Apple will pay the District nearly $2.7 million as part of a $113 million multistate settlement for intentionally slowing down or “throttling” the performance of iPhone devices to cover up battery problems.
AG Racine Sues Major Gasoline Seller for Price Gouging at Dozens of DC Gas Stations
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today filed a lawsuit against Capitol Petroleum Group, LLC (CPG), a leading retailer and distributor of gasoline in the District of Columbia, as well as several affiliated companies, for illegal price gouging during the District’s COVID-19 emergency.
OP-ED: Unequal justice under the law
The confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the highest court in the land will likely cement the concerted efforts by conservative activists over the recent decades to appoint a Supreme Court that will move the federal judiciary from a home for justice into an institution where individual…
AG Racine Leads 22-State Coalition Opposing Trump Administration’s Drastic Limits on International Student Visas
Attorney General Karl A. Racine and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced today they are co-leading a group of 22 state Attorneys General in opposing efforts by the Trump administration to severely restrict the amount of time international students are allowed to stay in the…
Don’t Be Scammed By A ‘Phantom Debt’ Collector
Phantom debt is a term for debt that either does not exist, has already been discharged, or has been artificially (and illegally) inflated, but somehow continues to haunt the debtor.
AG Racine Announces Former ITT Students To Receive $330 Million In Loan Forgiveness
Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced today that PEAKS Trust, a private loan program run by the defunct for-profit school ITT, will provide more than $580,000 in debt relief for former students in the District as part of a settlement with 48 attorneys general and the federal Consumer…
AG Racine Urges FDA To Stop Orange Book Patent Listings That Prevent Consumers From Accessing Affordable, Life-Saving Drugs Like Insulin
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today led a bipartisan coalition of 23 state and territory attorneys general in a bipartisan letter urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prohibit use of the FDA Orange Book to block competition.