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Consumer Protection Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on consumer rights law. Coverage includes litigation and enforcement actions over false advertising, deceptive trade practices, predatory lending, and debt collection, as well as related policy developments.
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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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January 21, 2025
Ex-Meta COO Sanctioned For Deleting Cambridge Emails
A Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Tuesday sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc.'s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in consolidated litigation over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal, finding that she likely selectively deleted emails that related to the litigation.
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January 21, 2025
Citi Can't Escape NYAG's Wire Fraud Protection Suit
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday declined to free Citibank NA from a lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general, who accuses the bank of failing to protect and reimburse customers who have lost money to online wire fraud.
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January 21, 2025
Stanley Tumbler Lead Contamination Suit Gets Shelved
A Washington federal judge has tossed a proposed class action against the maker of the popular "Stanley" tumbler for selling it without disclosing that it contained lead, saying the claims failed due to overly vague allegations of harm, but allowed the consumers to revise their lawsuit.
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January 21, 2025
Amazon Settles Consumer Suit Over Exploding Batteries
Amazon.com Inc. has entered into a settlement resolving a proposed class action accusing the company of selling thousands of faulty lithium-ion batteries that were prone to explosions, according to a stipulation and order filed in Washington federal court Friday.
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January 21, 2025
BofA Sued Over Credit Card Rewards 'Bait And Switch'
Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court accusing it of failing to make good on a credit card reward bonus offer, an issue the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau previously warned banks about.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Council of Better Business Bureaus, National Advertising Division
- Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State attorneys general offices
- State consumer protection regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Fair Credit Billing Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair Debt Collections Practices Act
- Lanham Act
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Truth in Lending Act
- State and international consumer protection legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Deceptive or predatory loan and loan servicing disputes
- Suits over false or deceptive advertising, marketing, or labeling of services
- Cases over consumer data breaches
- Disputes over collection of consumers’ personal information
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of consumer protection practices
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals