News Releases

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird led a coalition of 23 attorneys general in a letter to the National Judicial College (“NJC”) asking it to end its relationship with a radical environmental organization with ties to the communist Chinese government.   The NJC is a premier judicial education institution. Judges across the...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she has sued video surveillance company ADI Global Distribution Inc., commonly known as ADI, for hiding the fact that its cameras are manufactured in China by two companies, Hikvision and Dahua, that have close ties to the Chinese military.  Both companies are on a...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she has sued TP-Link Systems for deceiving Iowans about the origin and safety of their routers.  TP-Link has hidden its ties to China and the potential that the Chinese Communist Party could access Iowans’ devices. This is the first in a series of...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced she, joined by a bipartisan group of 29 other state attorneys general, has filed a friend of the court brief at the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the victims and families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks demanding...

DES MOINES – Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a coalition of 43 states and territories seeking court approval of a $400 million settlement with Sandoz Inc. and Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc. to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturers engaged in a widespread, long-running conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a letter urging Congress to fully fund the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fiscal Year 2027 security request, warning that threats against the Justices and their families have become a serious and escalating danger. The bipartisan letter from 45 state attorneys general to congressional leaders, called...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined President Donald Trump, Governor Kim Reynolds, Senator Joni Ernst, Representative Ashley Hinson, and Representative Marianette Miller-Meeks in the Oval Office today for the announcement of the largest steel manufacturing investment in American history, rebuilding American manufacturing. This investment highlights the Trump administration’s focus on...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a $35 million settlement in a bipartisan multistate case brought with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Corteva, Inc. The FTC and states sued Corteva for conducting a loyalty program that violated monopoly laws and illegally limited the sale of generic, less-expensive competing...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today highlighted the success of her office’s program for nurses who are trained to help victims of sexual assaults.  As part of a significant overhaul of the Victim Assistance Section under Attorney General Bird’s leadership, in November 2025 she hired a nurse to serve as...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 19 other state attorneys general in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the federal government to crack down on knock-off GLP-1 drugs made with ingredients from Chinese warehouses with ties to fentanyl production.    The Chinese-sourced active pharmaceutical ingredients used in...