12/24/2025 12:57:15 PM No More Rytr’s Block: FTC Reverses Course on AI Enforcement By Andrew Folks What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we blogged about the FTC’s settlement with Rytr LLC, an AI writing assistant provider...
12/23/2025 11:48:19 PM The FTC Continues to Crack Down on Deceptive Subscriptions (Rulemaking or Not) By Jason Howell Kate Patton The FTC Continues to Crack Down on Deceptive Subscriptions (Rulemaking or Not) In October, our colleague Holly Melton read the tea leaves...
12/23/2025 4:37:44 PM Three Recent AI Developments Worth Noting By Hannah Taylor New York Enacts First-of-Its-Kind AI Disclosure Law New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed S.8420-A/A.8887-B, a first-of-its-kind...
12/23/2025 1:54:44 PM New York State Expands Its Consumer Protection Law By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the "Fostering Affordability and Integrity Through Reasonable (FAIR)...
12/22/2025 8:30:29 PM FTC Sends Warning Letters To Companies: Don’t Mess With The Consumer Review Rule By Terri Seligman The FTC announced today that it sent letters to ten (unspecified) companies, warning them that it had “reason to believe” that each...
12/21/2025 6:40:05 PM SEC Issues Risk Alert On Use of Endorsements and Third-Party Ratings By Jeff Greenbaum The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Examinations recently published a Risk Alert to promote compliance with the...
12/19/2025 8:11:02 PM Oregon AG Settles With HelloFresh Over "Free" Offers By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, the Oregon Attorney General entered into a settlement with grocery delivery service HelloFresh, resolving allegations that...
12/16/2025 5:55:17 PM From Farm to Holiday Plate - USDA’s “Product of USA” Rule Raises the Stakes By Holly Melton For years, “Product of USA” has been a familiar origin claim on meat, poultry, and egg products, governed by USDA policy that focused...
12/16/2025 2:08:40 PM When is "Members-Only Pricing" Deceptive? By Jeff Greenbaum Members of Safeway's rewards program – Safeway for U – get members-only prices on various products offered for sale in the store. The...
12/9/2025 8:58:39 PM FTC’s Latest Warning Letters Signal a Much Broader Enforcement Frontier on Pricing Transparency By Holly Melton Last week’s Greystar settlement stood out as a significant action on hidden rental fees — but the FTC’s next move makes clear that it...
12/8/2025 1:19:15 PM Court Allows Connecticut Attorney General's "Greenwashing" Case Against ExxonMobil to Continue By Jeff Greenbaum Several years ago, the Connecticut Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company had engaged in a decades-long “systematic...
12/2/2025 11:03:20 PM FTC and Colorado Secure $24 Million Settlement With Greystar Over Alleged Hidden Housing Fees By Holly Melton On December 2, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission and the Colorado Attorney General announced a $24 million settlement with Greystar Real...
12/2/2025 5:24:15 PM Double Disclosures Revisited By Terri Seligman Over the summer, I wrote about an NAD case initiated by P&G against Dr. Squatch, challenging a number of posts on TikTok. The posts in...
12/1/2025 9:22:01 PM FTC Order Underscores Growing Focus on Children’s Privacy By Holly Melton Quick Summary The FTC started December off with a “bang” by announcing its proposed order resolving allegations that Illuminate Education...
12/1/2025 1:27:32 PM GALA Elects New Global Officers -- Dresden to Become New Global Chairman By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is very pleased to announce that it has elected its new global officers, effective January 1,...