The Federal Trace Commission recently settled with three student debt relief companies over charges that they falsely promised to lower...
Notwithstanding YouTube's significant role in public discourse--with more than 1.3 billion users and more than 30 million daily...
My colleague Kim Maynard recently discussed the legal implications with the International Olympic Committee’s (“IOC”) March 24 decision...
Last Friday, seventeen United States Senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, urging the agency to take action to prevent...
Asserting that "combating illegal robocalls is a top priority for the FTC," the Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters to a number...
Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin - a case about the opening licks of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven - has been wending its way...
If you offer a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" on your product, are you promising that consumers will, in fact, be satisfied by the...
Over the past several weeks, the California Attorney General (“AG”) published revisions to its proposed regulations implementing the CCPA...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is extending for sixty days the period to submit comments in connection with the...
A coalition of 34 attorneys general sent letters to Amazon, Facebook, Ebay, Walmart, and Craiglist telling them that, "as the American...
Over the past several weeks, the California Attorney General (“AG”) published revisions to its proposed regulations implementing the CCPA...
Today, FTC Chairman Joe Simons issued a statement about the agency's approach to consumer protection during this time of "national...
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced that it sued Metro Drugs in Manhattan for violating New York...
Earlier this week, the Florida Attorney General's Office announced that it launched an investigation into Norwegian Cruise Lines'...
There’s a lot that scary in the world right now. I live in New York City: I know from scary. Even so, watching the...
More than forty U.S. governors have called for the closure of "nonessential" services in an effort to reduce the spread of the...
The New York Attorney General's office is continuing to aggressively go after marketers that it says are making false and misleading...
The Federal Trade Commission recently closed an investigation into whether the J-B Weld Company's marketing materials may have overstated...
Guess what? You can’t endorse yourself! Well, you can (and if you’re living in the White House, you often do), but if you do,...
And, in other health news, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule to require new health warnings in cigarette...
Several members of Congress wrote to the Federal Trade Commission last week urging the agency to "take immediate action to protect...
On Monday, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection promulgated an emergency rule that makes price gouging illegal...
In early 2019, the BBB National Programs and the Direct Selling Association launched a new self-regulatory program called the Direct...
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently told several companies to stop selling fake coronavirus treatments.
Yesterday, the...
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that they sent warning letters to seven companies who...
Undoubtedly aware that, because of COVID-19, millions of Americans are hunkering down in their homes and shopping with their computers...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority just banned a print ad for Vic Smith Beds, which references the coronavirus health crisis, on...
When it could be an implied claim that a product’s packaging doesn’t harm our oceans. That, at least, was NAD’s determination when...
Fair use analysis requires courts to engage in a time-consuming, case-by-case examination and nuanced balancing of multiple factors, with...
Yesterday, New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Lorelei Salas announced that, in addition to face...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) has shaken up a host of industries, including sports, which by its very nature requires large...
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with Teami LLC, the marketer of detox tea producs, over allegations...
Yesterday, in response to the coronavirus, Facebook announced that it is temporarily banning all advertising for medical masks....
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced that it is declaring face masks temporarily in short supply, in...
As part of its routine monitoring, NAD recently examined claims made by Ava Science, Inc. for its Ava Ovulation Bracelet. The...
New York Attorney General Letitia James kicked off National Consumer Protection Week by releasing a list of the most common consumer...
The FTC has recently obtained a TRO against the Online Trading Academy to halt, at least temporarily, its alleged illegal practices....
Tom Leung, director of product management at YouTube, recently announced in a video posted online that YouTube has started a limited...
Amazon said that it has removed from its platform more that one million products -- such as face masks and respirators -- for price...
In the late 1980s, the music industry faced what it considered, at the time, to be an existential threat. A new category of digital...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it reached a settlement with actor Steven Seagal over charges that he failed...
On April 1st, we will be hosting a seminar, "Hot Topics in Advertising -- Beyond the Blog." The event, which will start at...
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