2025 Press Releases

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• 2/27/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Court Approval of $5 Million Settlement with Stone Academy and its Owners

  Attorney General William Tong released a statement today following court approval of the $5 million settlement with Stone Academy and its owners to resolve claims filed by the State and former students involving unfair and deceptive conduct at the defunct for-profit nursing school.

• 6/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition Of 23 Attorneys General Opposing President Trump’s Unlawful Freeze of Foreign Aid Funds

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a group of 23 attorneys general opposing the Trump Administration’s unlawful decision to withhold billions of dollars of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding for foreign aid programs.

• 6/13/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Decision Blocking Trump’s Unlawful Elections Order

  Attorney General William Tong today issued a statement on a decision by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts granting a preliminary injunction blocking unlawful provisions in President Donald Trump’s unprecedented elections executive order.

• 6/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces All 55 Attorneys General Sign On to $7.4 Billion Purdue Settlement

  Attorney General William Tong today announced that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.

• 6/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Files Brief Opposing Unlawful Termination of Job Corps

  Attorney General William Tong has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general filing an amicus brief in support of Job Corps, a national program that offers career training and housing to young Americans from low-income backgrounds.

• 4/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Issues Formal Opinion 2025-01 on ARPA Funds

• 6/27/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Supreme Court Punt on Nationwide Injunction Blocking Unconstitutional Trump Order to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the 6-3 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the nationwide injunction blocking the elimination of birthright citizenship while legal challenges continue.

• 7/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration over $53 Million in Frozen Funds for Connecticut Schools

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 25 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unconstitutional, unlawful, and arbitrary decision to freeze $6.8 billion in funding for six longstanding programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education, including over $53 million for Connecticut schools alone.

• 3/26/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Consumers to Check Eligibility for Compensation for Inflated Generic Drug Prices

  ttorney General William Tong is urging consumers to check their eligibility for compensation for certain generic drug purchases as Connecticut leads 50 states and territories in seeking preliminary approval for a $39.1 million settlement with generic drug manufacturer Apotex over conspiracy to inflate prices and limit competition.

• 6/24/2025 Attorney General Tong Challenges Trump Illegal Attempts to Terminate Federal Funding for States

  ttorney General William Tong today announced that he has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general suing the Trump Administration over its unprecedented and unlawful attempts to invoke a single provision buried in the federal regulations to strip away billions of dollars in critical federal funding for states and other grantees.

• 5/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Lawsuit Blocking Trump Administration from Imposing Worldwide Tariffs

  Attorney General Tong today released the following statement after the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the Trump administration’s tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are invalid and cannot be implemented.

• 5/19/2025 Attorney General Tong Objects to Kidde-Fenwal Bankruptcy Deal that would Enable Carrier to Evade Billions of Dollars in PFAS Forever Chemical Liability

  Attorney General William Tong today objected to a proposed bankruptcy deal for firefighting foam manufacturer Kidde-Fenwal, Inc. that seeks to unlawfully release its parent company Carrier Global Corporation from liability for PFAS forever chemical contamination in the face of lawsuits filed by Connecticut and other states.

• 1/31/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Initial Victory in Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Illegal Federal Funding Freeze

  Attorney General William Tong today announced an initial victory in the lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s Office of Management & Budget’s memo freezing federal grants and loans.

• 3/11/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Rejection of Petition from 19 Republican Attorneys General Seeking to Block Connecticut ExxonMobil Suit

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by 19 Republican state attorneys general attempting to block cases filed by Connecticut and four other states seeking to hold ExxonMobil accountable for decades of deceiving Connecticut consumers about the climate harms of its products and business.

• 4/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Decision in Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Case

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement following today’s decision in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruling that Google illegally maintained an online monopoly in the advertising technology market.