Mar 31, 2020 Offering Gift Cards to Consumers for Reviews? FTC Says (Again), Disclose! By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trace Commission recently settled with three student debt relief companies over charges that they falsely promised to lower...
Mar 30, 2020 YouTube is Not a Public Forum and Its Policies are Not Advertising By Craig Whitney Notwithstanding YouTube's significant role in public discourse--with more than 1.3 billion users and more than 30 million daily...
Mar 30, 2020 2020: A Year By Any Other Name… By Christopher Chase My colleague Kim Maynard recently discussed the legal implications with the International Olympic Committee’s (“IOC”) March 24 decision...
Mar 30, 2020 Senators Call on FTC to Take Action Against Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum Last Friday, seventeen United States Senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, urging the agency to take action to prevent...
Mar 29, 2020 FTC Sends Warning Letters to VoIP Service Providers By Jeff Greenbaum Asserting that "combating illegal robocalls is a top priority for the FTC," the Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters to a number...
Mar 29, 2020 R.I.P. Inverse Ratio Rule: Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin By Brian Murphy Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin - a case about the opening licks of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven - has been wending its way through courts...
Mar 28, 2020 Is a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" Merely Puffery? By Jeff Greenbaum If you offer a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" on your product, are you promising that consumers will, in fact, be satisfied by the...
Mar 28, 2020 Oops, the CA AG Did It Again By Amy Lawrence Over the past several weeks, the California Attorney General (“AG”) published revisions to its proposed regulations implementing the CCPA...
Mar 27, 2020 FTC Extends Comment Period for Endorsement Guide Review By Jeff Greenbaum Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is extending for sixty days the period to submit comments in connection with the...
Mar 27, 2020 AG Coalition Tells Major Retailers to do More to Stop Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum A coalition of 34 attorneys general sent letters to Amazon, Facebook, Ebay, Walmart, and Craiglist telling them that, "as the American...
Mar 27, 2020 CCPA Update: Oops, the CA AG Did It Again By Amy Lawrence Lyric Kaplan Over the past several weeks, the California Attorney General (“AG”) published revisions to its proposed regulations implementing the CCPA...
Mar 26, 2020 FTC Chairman Says the Agency Will be "Flexible and Reasonable" in Enforcing Compliance Requirements By Jeff Greenbaum Today, FTC Chairman Joe Simons issued a statement about the agency's approach to consumer protection during this time of "national...
Mar 26, 2020 NYC Brings First Price Gouging Case and Says There are More to Come By Jeff Greenbaum The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced that it sued Metro Drugs in Manhattan for violating New York...
Mar 25, 2020 Florida AG Launches Investigation Into Norwegian Cruise Lines Over Coronavirus-Related Marketing By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this week, the Florida Attorney General's Office announced that it launched an investigation into Norwegian Cruise Lines'...
Mar 25, 2020 #IStopForFalseAdvertising: FTC Hits the Brakes on Unsubstantiated Safety Claims By Terri Seligman 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 commercial at issue...
Mar 25, 2020 In the Wake of COVID-19, Here Are the States That Have Shut Down Nonessential Services (UPDATED April 20, 2020) By Mma Afoaku More than forty U.S. governors have called for the closure of "nonessential" services in an effort to reduce the spread of the...