Brian L. Moore
Senior Attorney, Public Entity Litigation
Brian (B-Mo) Moore is a litigator at Nachawati Law Group based in New Mexico. As part of the firm’s Public Entity Litigation division, Brian represents state and local governments in affirmative litigation in the areas of consumer protection, public nuisance, false claims and fraud against taxpayers, data privacy, and antitrust.
Biography
Before joining Nachawati, Brian gained valuable experience both as a private and public practice litigator. Brian spent five years in private practice representing individuals in a wide range of plaintiff litigation including qui tam and whistleblower claims, insurance bad faith, civil rights, and medical malpractice. Brian then joined the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General in the Consumer and Environmental Protection Division. At the NMAG, Brian managed a broad portfolio including handling all of the office’s non-Medicaid qui tam litigation. Brian also led teams of lawyers in some of the highest-profile consumer protection, antitrust, and charities enforcement litigation ever pursued by the office, against mega-corporation defendants like Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Aramark, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Brian also served as Special Counsel to the City of Albuquerque, representing the City in high-profile cases involving complex class action civil rights claims and providing policy analysis and counsel to the Mayor and City Council.
Services
Public Client Representation
Consumer Protection
Public Nuisance
Fraud Against Taxpayer / False Claims
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Antitrust
Notable Litigations
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State Attorneys General Temu Litigation
Currently represent the States of Arkansas and Nebraska, as well as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in state court consumer protection litigation against Chinese e commerce giant Temu. This litigation focuses on Temu’s illegal data collection and protection practices as well as various illegal tactics Temu uses to entice buyers to order low-cost items.
State Attorneys General Social Media Platform Litigation
Currently represent the States of Nevada and Mississippi, as well as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in state court consumer protection litigation against Meta Platforms (parent company of Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook), TikTok, Snapchat, and Alphabet (parent company of Google and YouTube). This litigation focuses on the design elements of these companies' social media and messaging apps and alleges that these design elements cause harm to minor users under the age of 18.
State of New Mexico ex rel. Integra Rec, LLC v. Banc of America Securities LLC, et al.
Represented the State of New Mexico to intervene in a qui tam action brought against nine financial institutions for making misrepresentations to the state’s two public retirement funds and sovereign wealth fund about mortgage backed securities investments leading to the 2008 financial crisis.
Nine months after the state intervened and the qui tam seal was lifted, the case settled for more than $30-million.