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DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird was today joined by U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James Danly during a tour of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa, and the Duane Arnold Training Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. The Attorney General also attended the Corridor Business Journal Energy Symposium, where she introduced the Deputy Secretary as a keynote speaker.     “Iowa...

DES MOINES— Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she joined a coalition of 17 state attorneys general in challenging California’s Plastics Act to defend Iowans. The lawsuit intends to stop the impacts of costs that will be passed on to Iowans as a result of the Act, making basic necessities more expensive for everyone.  With the California Plastics Act, California is imposing unrealistic requirements on manufacturers, distributors,...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she has joined a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for the unconscionable harm inflicted by their ongoing deceptive claims about the necessity, safety, and efficacy of pediatric medical transition drugs, surgeries, and other treatments on children and their parents.   The FTC has received hundreds of alarming reports from pediatric patients of medical...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today a $4.87 million multistate settlement with GS Labs that resolves claims that the testing company overcharged patients, unlawfully charged administrative fees, and failed to deliver timely COVID-19 test results from 2020 to 2022. More specifically, states investigated allegations that GS Labs:   Intentionally advertised inflated “cash prices” to justify overcharging patients with insurance coverage;  ...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that Todd Michael Mullis’s 2019 conviction for the first-degree murder of his wife, Amy Mullis, will stand.  In a 53-page decision, an Iowa judge firmly rejected over 100 legal claims made by Mullis in an attempt to overturn his conviction. The judge concluded that Mullis received...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that her office, in cooperation with the Woodbury County Attorney’s Office, has secured a guilty verdict of murder in the first degree in the Woodbury County case of State v. Raymond Rogers.  Raymond Rogers stalked and terrorized his ex-wife Ashley Rogers and her boyfriend Gerele Jones throughout 2022. On February 24, 2023, he entered Ashley and Gerele's residence armed with a...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she joined Vice President JD Vance at the White House for a meeting of the White House Fraud Task Force today.   Attorney General Bird and 14 other attorneys general’s offices joined Vice President Vance to discuss collaborative efforts between the White House and state attorneys general on combating benefits fraud, as well as the resources needed by attorneys general to fight fraud in their...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today that Robert Davis of Council Bluffs has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Barbara Lenz. Barbara disappeared from Harrison County in 1989. Davis was arrested on March 10, 2025, and was the first arrest made in a...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is suing the world’s largest proxy advisor firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), for abusing its influence over shareholders and lying to Iowa investors — threatening Iowans’ retirement savings by promising objective advice while secretly pushing an undisclosed woke agenda.   “Iowans expected sound, objective financial advice and voting from the world’s largest proxy advisor. Instead, they got deceived...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced a victory today in her ongoing effort to protect children and hold big tech companies accountable. On May 13, 2026, the Iowa District Court for Polk County issued a ruling allowing Iowa's consumer fraud lawsuit against Roblox Corporation to move forward.   The Court denied Roblox’s attempt to dismiss the core of Iowa's lawsuit and determined that the suit may move forward with its...