Consumer Protection

  • November 13, 2024

    Connecticut Banking Dept. Can Fine Legal Funder, Judge Says

    The Connecticut Department of Banking has jurisdiction over a legal funding company under the state's Small Loan Act, a state judge ruled in dismissing an administrative appeal linked to a $25,000 fine that the regulator imposed.

  • November 13, 2024

    Bradley Arant Aims To Toss Malpractice Arbitration Claims

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and a firm attorney urged a California federal judge to toss a San Diego-based business consulting firm's lawsuit contending the law firm botched an arbitration proceeding with tribal entities, saying the court lacks personal jurisdiction and is an improper venue as the arbitration and legal work largely took place outside the state.

  • November 13, 2024

    Mass. AG Ready To Reprise Office's Role As Trump Foil

    Taking a page from her predecessor's book, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell told Law360 she is hoping to work with the incoming Trump administration, but the Democrat said she is nevertheless prepared to use her office's "significant tools and power" to challenge actions she feels are at odds with her constituents' interests.

  • November 13, 2024

    Trump Taps DOJ Critic Matt Gaetz For Attorney General

    President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the next U.S. attorney general, seeking to elevate a close political ally to lead a Justice Department that the Florida lawmaker has sharply criticized and that last year declined to charge him in a sex-trafficking investigation.

  • November 13, 2024

    FTC Antitrust Case Against Meta Is Heading To Trial

    A D.C. federal court ruled Wednesday that Meta will have to face trial on the Federal Trade Commission's claims that the Facebook parent company monopolized personal social networking through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

  • November 12, 2024

    Trump Taps Elon Musk To Head New 'Gov't Efficiency' Dept.

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly created "Department in Government Efficiency" for his administration come January.

  • November 12, 2024

    Tech Group Seeks Block Of Calif. Social Media Addiction Law

    A tech trade group that has contested a rash of new social media laws around the country launched its latest constitutional challenge Tuesday, targeting a recently enacted California law designed to block online platforms from using algorithms to deliver addictive feeds to children without parental consent.

  • November 12, 2024

    5th Circ. Won't Reopen CFPB Payday Rule Fight

    The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday denied a bid from a lender to reopen an industry legal challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's payday loan rule that previously foundered at the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing the way for the rule to take effect.

  • November 12, 2024

    Guardant CEO Says Rival's False Ads Hurt 'Beautiful Baby'

    Guardant Health's CEO testified Tuesday in his company's false advertising suit against Natera Inc. that its rival's "misleading" ad campaign hurt Guardant's colorectal cancer test launch, saying he felt like somebody had taken their "beautiful baby" and "slammed its head against the wall."

  • November 12, 2024

    Trump Pick To Lead EPA Is Loyal, Would Learn On The Job

    President-elect Donald Trump prioritized loyalty and a demonstrated ability to carry out his priorities with his announcement that he intends to nominate a former congressman from New York state to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

  • November 12, 2024

    Bayer Ruling Looms Over Jaguar EV Battery Fire Risk Suit

    A recent Third Circuit decision reviving product liability claims against Bayer over tainted antifungal spray may "bear" on proposed class claims accusing Jaguar Land Rover's U.S. arm of knowingly selling thousands of electric vehicles with batteries prone to catching fire, a New Jersey federal judge found Tuesday.

  • November 12, 2024

    Celsius' Mashinsky Must Face Full Indictment, Judge Says

    Ex-Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky must face claims that he committed commodities and securities fraud and manipulated his now-bankrupt business's proprietary token after a New York federal judge declined to trim the indictment against him.

  • November 12, 2024

    Big Tech Litigant's Latest Suit Vs. Google Tossed

    A Florida federal judge has granted Google's motion to dismiss a patent infringement and antitrust suit from web development company Greenflight targeting the search giant's reverse phone number lookup, ruling that the plaintiff's phone lookup service appearing low on Google's search results doesn't amount to standing to sue.

  • November 12, 2024

    FTC Doubts It Overstepped On Editing Meta Decree

    The FTC spent its morning mulling whether it overstepped in trying to modify a 2020 consent decree with Facebook to impose new restrictions on the social media titan now known as Meta after finding that the company hadn't been keeping its data privacy promises.

  • November 12, 2024

    Wireless Group Backs Verizon In Fight Over FCC Privacy Fine

    A major wireless industry group has urged the Second Circuit to deep-six the Federal Communications Commission's nearly $47 million fine against Verizon for selling customers' location data, arguing the FCC read its authority to penalize the mobile giant too broadly.

  • November 12, 2024

    Visa To Fight Market Definition In DOJ Antitrust Case

    Attorneys for Visa told a New York federal judge on Tuesday that the company plans to argue the U.S. Department of Justice's debit card monopolization case should be tossed because it ignores a key payment method and attacks legitimate contracts.

  • November 12, 2024

    Comerica Sues CFPB To Stop 'Ultra Vires' Benefits Card Probe

    Comerica Bank has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a Texas federal court, accusing it of carrying out an overreaching and unlawful investigation into the bank's handling of a government program for distributing federal benefits via debit cards.

  • November 12, 2024

    Don't Let Broadband Maps Overstate Rural Overlap, FCC Told

    Rural telecoms are again urging the Federal Communications Commission to beware of overstated provider overlap in its National Broadband Map when allocating federal deployment funding, arguing that the map should be used as part of a holistic process to determine where money should be spent and not the sole determinant.

  • November 12, 2024

    HIV Drug Buyers Want Gilead Product Switch Claims Revived

    Insurers and benefit plans are asking the Ninth Circuit to revive a chunk of their antitrust case against Gilead, arguing their claims that Gilead delayed generic competition to its HIV drugs by monopolizing the market should have new life.

  • November 12, 2024

    Web App Antitrust Suit Backed By Epic-Apple, 9th Circ. Told

    A proposed class of iPhone buyers urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to revive their antitrust claims over Apple's barriers against advanced web-based apps, saying a California federal judge's dismissal order directly contradicts binding precedent from Epic Games' landmark monopoly suit against the tech giant.

  • November 12, 2024

    Tempur Sealy Merger 'Surprisingly Bold,' Competitor Testifies

    The CEO of a Utah-based mattress company told a Houston federal judge Tuesday that Tempur Sealy's proposed remedies under its $4 billion planned Mattress Firm purchase were "surprisingly bold" as the Federal Trade Commission began its case in opposition of the merger.

  • November 12, 2024

    Stop Bank Impersonation Scams 'Without Delay,' FCC Told

    Several banking organizations and a consumer rights group urged the Federal Communications Commission to forge ahead on rules aimed at stamping out scam texts that fraudsters use to impersonate banks.

  • November 12, 2024

    Nationstar Gets COVID-19 Loan Aid Suit Tossed For Good

    Nationstar Mortgage has beaten for good a lawsuit alleging it wrongly denied COVID-19 loss mitigation assistance for delinquent mortgages, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling homeowners did not amend their suit to prove the company violated the law.

  • November 12, 2024

    Chipotle's Portions Are Eating Away Profits, Investor Suit Says

    Fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging the company downplayed concerns about meager portion sizes, an issue the company later acknowledged it would correct, sacrificing profitability.

  • November 12, 2024

    Two Ga. Companies Hit With Data Breach Class Actions

    Two Georgia companies were sued in federal court on Friday over their alleged failure to safeguard the personally identifiable information of thousands in data breaches that occurred earlier this year.

Expert Analysis

  • Takeaways From Texas AG's Novel AI Health Settlement

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    The Texas attorney general's recent action against a health tech company marks another step in rapidly proliferating enforcement against artificial intelligence and privacy issues across multiple states, and highlights important risk mitigation considerations for health companies that implement AI systems, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • A Look At How De Minimis Import Rules May Soon Change

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    The planned implementation of executive actions focused on the de minimis rule as it applies to shipments means companies should use this interval to evaluate the potential applicability and impact of Section 301, Section 201 or Section 232 duties on their products, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial

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    Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update

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    While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.

  • How To Avoid Liability When Using Cookie Consent Managers

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    As companies attempt to comply with consumer protection laws by implementing cookie consent managers on their websites, they must be wary of separate legal risks that can stem from implementing or using these tools incorrectly, says Ian Cohen at LOKKER.

  • 6 Tips For Trying Cases Away From Home

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    A truly national litigation practice, by definition, often requires trying cases in jurisdictions across the country, which presents unique challenges that require methodical preparation and coordination both within the trial team and externally, say Edward Bennett and Suzanne Salgado at Williams & Connolly.

  • Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones

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    While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • 3 Coverage Tips As 2nd Circ. 'Swipes Left' On Tinder Claim

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    The Second Circuit's recent opinion in Match Group v. Beazley Underwriting, overturning Tinder's victory on its insurer's motion to dismiss a coverage action, reinforces three best practices policyholders purchasing claims-made coverage should adhere to in order to avoid late-notice defenses, say Lynda Bennett and Alexander Corson at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Proposed Legislation May Crack Down On Online Drug Ads

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    A bill recently proposed in Congress could serve as a sea change in how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates drug-related speech, with significant trickle-down effects on various corners of not only the drug industry but also on consumers and providers themselves, say Dominick DiSabatino and Arushi Pandya at Sheppard Mullin.

  • How Loper Bright Is Affecting Pending FCC Litigation

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    Pending challenges against Federal Communications Commission orders at the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright highlight that counsel must be familiar with the statutes, regulations and precedent relevant to the FCC to best navigate the rapidly changing compliance landscape, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • A Blueprint For Structuring An Effective Plaintiff Case Story

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    The number and size of nuclear verdicts continue to rise, in part because plaintiffs attorneys have become more adept at crafting compelling trial stories — and an analysis of these success stories reveals a 10-part framework for structuring an effective case narrative, says Jonathan Ross at Decision Analysis.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Dealmaker Lessons From CFIUS' New Enforcement Webpage

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    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ recently launched webpage, which details the actions — and inactions — that led to enforcement activity, provides important insights for dealmakers about filing requirements, mitigation commitments and the cost of noncompliance, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • What's In Colorado's 1st-Of-Its-Kind Neural Privacy Law

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    Colorado recently became the first U.S. state to directly regulate neurotechnology with new legislation amending the Colorado Privacy Act to specifically protect biological and neural data, offering an example of how lawmakers can tackle the perceived regulation gaps in this area, say attorneys at Goodwin.

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