NAD Considers Whether “Best Practices” are Really the Best Practices
The Certified Angus Beef organization (or “CAB”) is a nonprofit organization that certifies high-quality Angus beef. CAB encourages beef producers to participate in the Beef Quality Assurance (or...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for the Green Guides? Insights from Commissioner Holyoak’s...
Green marketing is very much in vogue, and so is suing companies over their green marketing. If you want to avoid those suits, you should generally start by looking at the FTC’s Green Guides. But a...
View ArticleCalifornia Privacy Protection Agency Ramps Up Data Broker Oversight
In recent months, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has stepped firmly into a role as the nation’s leading data broker regulatory and enforcement agency. In January, 495 data brokers...
View ArticleAGs Celebrate Consumer Protection Week 2025
Many state Attorneys General are celebrating Consumer Protection Week this week by releasing their top consumer complaint categories, summarizing their past year’s successes, and/or providing consumer...
View ArticleState AGs and Consumer Protection: What We Learned From … Michigan
What’s going on with Michigan’s consumer protection statute? How does the Michigan Attorney General’s Office operate? And what are its enforcement priorities? Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel,...
View ArticleNew York AG Settles with School Calendar App, Saturn
This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with app developer Saturn Technologies (Saturn) following an investigation into privacy practices that promised teens an...
View Article"Junk Fee" Legislative Roundup – 2025 Edition
2024 was an action-packed year for followers of federal and state laws and regulations governing the disclosure of fees, or so-called “junk fee” laws. In the waning days of the Biden administration,...
View ArticleCPPA Drives Home Enforcement Priorities in CCPA Settlement with Honda
On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy...
View ArticleTwo Class Actions Take a ShOt at Substantiation for Lemme’s GLP-1 Daily...
Two new class action complaints, both captioned Robins v. Lemme Inc., were filed in in California Superior Court and the Southern District of New York on February 19 and March 9, respectively. The...
View ArticleKansas Seeks to Stop Ford County From “Usurping” its Sovereignty
In January, Ford County, Kansas joined a class action complaint filed in Missouri against eleven plastics manufacturers, seeking to represent “all persons or entities” in 35 states who purchased...
View ArticleNAD Combs Through #1 Claims
Simpler Hair Color (or “SHC”) advertises that its products are “Rated #1 Men’s Hair Color” and “Rated #1 Men’s Hair & Beard Color” based on “Trustpilot.com verified reviews.” Combe, a competitor,...
View ArticleFirings of Democratic Commissioners Leave FTC In Flux and Tee Up Revisiting...
As news hit last night that President Trump fired the two remaining Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, many questions abound. Would Commissioners Bedoya and Slaughter...
View ArticleCan Two FTC Commissioners of the Same Party Constitute a Quorum?
Yesterday, President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. President Trump’s action leaves Chair Andrew...
View ArticleNAD Considers Whether “Number 1” Claims Can be Qualified
DREO advertises that it is the “No. 1 Fan and Heater Brand” in the United States. Lasko, a competitor, thinks that it is, in fact, the “number 1” brand in both of those categories. Because there can’t...
View ArticleFraud Prevention, Worker Protection, and Fighting Alleged Big Tech...
Yesterday, we covered President Trump’s firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter and explored whether a two-member Commission constitutes a quorum for the agency to...
View ArticleAmazon Hit With Greenwashing Lawsuit
Last week, consumers in four states filed a proposed class action against Amazon, accusing the company of greenwashing by misleading consumers about the sustainability of the company’s Amazon Basics...
View ArticleTexting Lawsuits in Washington – A Reminder About State Laws
Most businesses that send texts to their target audiences are focused on compliance with the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) – and understandably so, given the explosion in class...
View ArticleWhat’s Next at FTC Following Firings of Democratic Commissioners?
It’s been a week since the Trump administration fired FTC Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya because their “continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with . . . administration priorities.” In the...
View ArticleState AGs Support Effort to Revive TCPA 1:1 Consent Rule
On March 17, a bipartisan group of attorneys general from 27 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the National Consumer Law...
View ArticleNARB Offers Guidance on Product Demonstrations
James Hardie Building Products makes fiber cement home siding. The company produced a video demonstration that compared the combustibility of its siding to various competing products when exposed to a...
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