Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection and data-privacy laws following a data breach by one of the company’s experimental models this summer. [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today led a coalition of 25 state attorneys general in urging Trump Administration officials to investigate and cancel federal grants to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) for using taxpayer [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 10-state attorneys general in asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to strictly review any filings submitted by OpenAI to protect investors and ensure fair and orderly markets [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen launched an investigation into two automotive manufacturers, Ford Motor Company and Stellantis N.V., following recent reports that personal driving data is collected and sold to third-party companies. Attorney General Knudsen is bringing the investigation under [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General led a coalition of 23-state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief today in support of a California mother who was wrongly shut out of her child’s gender identity decision by a school district, violating [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 24-state attorneys general in urging the Trump Administration to investigate the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and to cancel federal grants [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced a landmark settlement agreement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. (“Vanguard”) for conspiring to artificially constrict the coal market through anticompetitive trade practices. In 2024, Attorney General Knudsen filed a lawsuit against [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 11 state attorneys general in asking the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) to review the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers, which will stifle competition and increase [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement after the lawsuit challenging Montana’s TikTok ban was jointly dismissed in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana today:“The Chinese Communist Party used TikTok to spy on Montanans. The [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 21 attorneys general urging the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to remove the biased climate science chapter from their reference manual used by judges across the country and [...]