Jul 28, 2024 Cameo Enters Into Multistate Settlement Over Endorsement Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a 30-state settlement with Cameo, the celebrity video app, resolving...
Jul 26, 2024 SAG-AFTRA CALLS STRIKE UNDER IMA By Dorian Thomas On July 25, 2024, SAG-AFTRA announced that it had called a strike under the SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement ("IMA"). The strike...
Jul 22, 2024 FTC Takes Action Against Adobe for Unfair Subscription Practices By Kate Patton Maria Nava The Federal Trade Commission announced an action against Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, alleging...
Jul 20, 2024 Beastie Boys Sue Chili’s for use of Hit Song “Sabotage” in Advertising By Ariel Radow The Beastie Boys sued Brinker International, the parent company of the restaurant chain Chili’s, for allegedly using the band’s 1994 hit...
Jul 18, 2024 AI-Powered Detection App Gets FTC Scrutiny By Terri Seligman The FTC recently posted its Closing Letter to HeHealth, Inc., which provides an AI-powered application, Calmara, for the detection of...
Jul 17, 2024 Are Users Bound By Updated Arbitration Agreements? The Southern District of New York Weighs In By Caren Decter Peter Devlin For years, companies have opted to include mandatory arbitration provisions and class action waivers in their website terms of service to...
Jul 15, 2024 Are Consumers Supposed to Read the Side of the Package? By Jeff Greenbaum Back to Nature Foods Company sells organic Stoneground Wheat Crackers. Right below the product's name, the packaging says, “organic...
Jul 15, 2024 FTC Issues Warnings on Warranty Practices By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission announced that it sent warning letters to several companies about their warranty practices, outlining...
Jul 11, 2024 Are Tea Bags "Made in the USA" if the Tea Inside the Bags is Imported? By Jeff Greenbaum Can you advertise tea bags as having been manufactured in the United States if the tea inside the tea bags was imported? That was the...
Jul 11, 2024 What Do “Simple” and “Safe” Say About a Product and its Ingredients? By Ariel Radow Consumers are clamoring for more “natural” and “clean” personal care products – and while companies are meeting that demand, these claims...
Jul 11, 2024 FTC Bans Anonymous Messaging App from Offering App to Kids Under 18; Secures $5 Million Settlement By Jordyn Milewski The FTC announced yesterday that NGL Labs (the company behind anonymous messaging app, “NGL: ask me anything”) and two of its co-founders...
Jul 09, 2024 The FTC Weighs In Again on “Up To” Claims By Terri Seligman The FTC recently announced a proposed settlement with Arise Virtual Solutions, a platform where would-be customer-service representatives...
Jul 09, 2024 Google Updates Policies on Political Advertising Including AI-Generated Content By Jeff Greenbaum Last year, Google announced that it would require political advertising in the United States (and in many other regions) to disclose when...
Jul 08, 2024 FTC Issues Updated "Made in USA" Business Guidance By Jeff Greenbaum Right before the July 4th holiday weekend, the Federal Trade Commission released an updated version of its business guidance, Complying...
Jul 03, 2024 Can An Advertiser Over Disclose? By Terri Seligman Bimbo Bakeries recently received a warning letter from the FDA that it “misbranded” certain of its products by including ingredients on...
Jul 03, 2024 Planning Some Patriotic Messaging for the 4th? By Jeff Greenbaum Since we're headed into July 4th weekend, I thought I'd kick things off with a post about the Federal Trade Commission's “Made in USA”...