Penalty Amount
$2,000,000
New York Attorney General Letitia James, along with four other states and the FTC, settled with Zillow and Redfin after they entered an illegal agreement to stop competing in the multifamily rental advertising market. Zillow paid Redfin $100 million to shut down its advertising business and exclusively display Zillow's listings. The settlement requires the companies to resume competing and pay $2 million.
Zillow and Redfin must resume competing as they did before the illegal agreement. Redfin will rebuild its apartment advertising business and sell its own advertising products. They must eliminate anticompetitive provisions, including terms preventing Redfin from competing independently, and are barred from entering into future anticompetitive agreements. They must also pay $2 million to the coalition.
In-house legal teams should review vendor and partnership agreements, especially those involving data sharing, content licensing, and joint ventures, for any non-compete or exclusive dealing clauses that could be considered anticompetitive. They should also examine clauses that restrict a partner's ability to independently compete, such as exclusive listing arrangements or agreements to stay out of a market. This enforcement action highlights the need to ensure that agreements do not contain provisions that could be construed as market allocation or restraint of trade, and to consider antitrust compliance in any data-sharing or licensing arrangements.
Entity
Zillow Group, Inc.
Industry
TechnologyOfficial Press Release
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-stops-illegal-scheme-eliminate-competition-between-zillow
attorney general james sues zillow and redfin illegal scheme
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-sues-zillow-and-redfin-illegal-scheme-stop-competing
New York Attorney General Enforcement Page
https://ag.ny.gov/press-releases
"Zillow Group, Inc. (Zillow) and Redfin Corporation (Redfin)"
"must also pay the coalition $2 million."
"violating federal antitrust laws"
"illegal agreement between Zillow Group, Inc. (Zillow) and Redfin Corporation (Redfin) that prevented them from competing."
$2.6M
New York and Connecticut reached a settlement with Boston Children’s Health Physicians and its IT security provider, XTIUM, after a 2024 breach exposed private information of approximately 825,000 New York residents and 62,871 Connecticut residents. The companies will pay $2.64 million and implement enhanced cybersecurity measures; additional penalties are conditional on violating the settlement.
New York Attorney General Letitia James joined 16 other attorneys general in urging Congress to pass proposed legislation addressing the federal government’s release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records. The press release says DOJ has not fully disclosed the records required by the original law and that personal information of at least 43 victims was exposed in released files; this is a legislative advocacy announcement, not an enforcement action imposing a penalty or remedy.
$1.9M
New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a settlement after an investigation found Dollar General stores routinely charged customers more than advertised or posted prices and issued confusing receipts. Dollar General must donate $1.875 million in food and personal items to Foodlink and implement pricing, receipt, training, and audit reforms.
New York Attorney General Letitia James released an updated guide warning voters that AI-generated election content and chatbots may provide misleading information. This is public guidance, not an enforcement action, and the release describes no penalty or privacy violation.
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan coalition of 39 other attorneys general filed a motion in Character Technologies, Inc.’s bankruptcy, citing risks to children and sensitive user information and potential violations of state privacy laws. The coalition asks the court, the company, and any prospective buyer to require meaningful privacy and safety protections; no fine or final remedy is reported.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, the FTC, and six other state attorneys general asked a federal court to hold Martin Shkreli in contempt for allegedly trading pharmaceutical stocks and discussing pharmaceutical companies in violation of his lifetime industry ban. The requested sanctions include divestiture, an accounting of his trading, forfeiture of trading profits, and possible further fines or incarceration; the release describes a request to the court, not a new ruling imposing those measures.