State AG Updates: November 3-9, 2022

Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week's updates.

Multistate

• A coalition of 25 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in support of the Federal Trade Commission's attempt to block Meta from acquiring virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited and its app "Supernatural." The coalition argues that the acquisition would lessen competition and potentially create a monopoly in the virtual reality fitness arena.

• The attorneys general of California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois asked a D.C. District Court to temporarily halt Albertsons' planned $4 billion special dividend payment to shareholders after concerns that the payment would negatively affect workers, consumers, and competition in the three markets. The attorneys general seek to delay the payment pending regulatory review of