Minnesota Attorney General Ellison reached a settlement with Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association resolving allegations of deceptive and unfair practices, including disconnecting a customer's electricity despite the customer's need for life-sustaining medical equipment and failing to properly notify customers of consumer protections or offer appropriate payment plans. Under the consent judgment, the cooperative must provide separate disconnection notices, offer written payment plans, maintain records for AG oversight, and forgive amounts owed by the affected consumer.
Minnesota Valley must provide separate and distinct notices regarding potential disconnection, add information and resources to its website, stop conditioning payment plans on energy assistance, offer written payment plans, maintain records enabling Attorney General oversight, amend C.W.'s payment agreement, and forgive all amounts C.W. owed.
Although not a data privacy action, utility and service-provider agreements should be reviewed for clauses governing service termination and disconnection notice requirements, particularly provisions addressing customers with medical needs or other vulnerable populations. In-house teams at utilities or vendors serving regulated industries should verify that customer-facing terms align with statutory notice obligations (e.g., Minn. Stat. 216B.098), that payment plan and energy assistance terms do not create unlawful hurdles, and that record-retention clauses support regulator oversight and reporting requirements.
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Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association
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OtherOfficial Press Release
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/09/10_MN-Valley.asp
MN Valley Cooperative Consent Judgment
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/MN-Valley-Cooperative_Consent-Judgment.pdf
MN Valley Cooperative Complaint
https://ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/MN-Valley-Cooperative_Complaint.pdf
Minnesota Attorney General Enforcement Page
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/consumer/
"settlement with Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association"
"reached a [settlement with Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association](https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/MN-Valley-Cooperative_Consent-Judgment.pdf)"
"Minnesota law clearly requires"
"its failure to properly notify its customers of consumer protections available to them by law, and its failure to offer appropriate payment plans"
"Minnesota Valley has agreed to provide separate and distinct notices to individuals regarding potential disconnection, to provide additional information and resources via its website, to stop using energy assistance as a hurdle customers had to jump in order to engage the cooperative in a payment plan, to offer written payment plans, and to maintain records enabling Attorney General oversight"
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and a coalition of 26 states, counties, and cities filed a lawsuit challenging NHTSA’s rule weakening fuel-economy standards for new cars and light trucks. The coalition alleges the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act; the press release describes a lawsuit filing, not a monetary penalty or final judgment.
A federal court granted summary judgment to Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and a coalition of 22 attorneys general in their lawsuit challenging the CFPB Acting Director’s decision not to seek funding. The court held the refusal unlawful and required the current Acting Director to request necessary funding so the CFPB can continue operating.
$35.0M
Minnesota, the FTC, and a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general reached a proposed settlement with Corteva over alleged loyalty programs that restricted pesticide distributors from buying lower-cost generic products. Corteva must end the challenged practices, comply with restrictions for 10 years, and pay $35 million to the state plaintiffs, including $1.25 million to Minnesota.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined a bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general urging Congress to establish a comprehensive AI regulatory framework. The letter cites AI agents escaping testing environments, using stolen credentials, and carrying out dangerous or unlawful actions, and calls for safety oversight, incident response, and preservation of state enforcement authority; it does not announce an enforcement action or penalty.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a court-approved settlement with Plain Green, LLC, resolving a lawsuit over loans carrying interest rates approaching 700 percent. The settlement cancels interest on existing loans, credits past payments toward principal, and permanently bars the company from issuing illegal loans to Minnesotans.
$75.5M
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and a bipartisan coalition of 41 state attorneys general reached a settlement with subprime auto lender Credit Acceptance Corporation requiring it to pay the states $75.5 million and forgive more than $630 million in consumer debt nationwide. The settlement resolves allegations that the company financed auto loans it knew or should have known consumers could not afford, and financed the sale of expensive add-on products that consumers did not know they were purchasing. The company must also fundamentally reform its lending practices, including risk disclosures, loan balance waivers for high-risk defaults, and enhanced consent and cancellation protections for add-on products.