By any chance are the attorneys general from those states Clinton appointees? (Didn't Clinton fire +/- 60 attorneys general within his first 90 days in office and replace them with appointees?) If these guys are leftovers from the previous administration, this would explain the frivolous law suits. Clinton's main goal when entering office was to "redistribute wealth" via the courts.
These are the state AG's, not the DOJ AG's. In some states the AG is an elected office. Somehow this is starting to smell like the tobacco lawsuits - and whose hands are in the cookie jar this time? Remember Dan Morales, then AG of Texas? BTW Dan got four years.