1/30/2026 11:00:12 PM Surprise! (Not) - FTC Announces Two Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking By Holly Melton The Federal Trade Commission closed out January with a bang. Today, the agency announced that it submitted two Advanced Notices of...
1/29/2026 6:52:07 PM Key Takeaways from the FTC’s Age Verification Workshop By Holly Melton On January 28, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a virtual public workshop examining age-verification technologies and their role...
1/25/2026 11:45:30 PM Institute for Advertising Ethics Issues Updated Principles By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Institute for Advertising Ethics released its updated IAE Principles, which have been revised to address “the ethical...
1/18/2026 7:59:59 AM Texas AG Launches Investigation Over "Organic" Produce Claims By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he launched an investigation into whether grocery chains that spray organic...
1/15/2026 7:14:28 AM Apples to Apples. Literally. By Terri Seligman In a recent case, Ahold Delhaize USA, operator of a number of grocery store chains, including Food Lion, Hannaford, Stop & Shop, and...
1/14/2026 8:28:00 PM FTC Finalizes GM/OnStar Order Over Geolocation Data Practices By Holly Melton The FTC’s January 2026 final order against GM and its OnStar subsidiary marks the culmination of a long-running investigation into how...
1/14/2026 1:24:02 AM Enabling Deception Has Consequences — Even Years Later By Holly Melton The Federal Trade Commission recently filed a contempt motion against Cliq, Inc. (formerly CardFlex, Inc.) and its principals. The motion...
1/12/2026 7:24:58 PM FTC Year in Review: 2025 Priorities and the Road Ahead By Holly Melton In 2025, the FTC devoted significant resources to consumer protection. Both its public statements and enforcement activity made the...
1/12/2026 12:56:25 PM FCC Delays TCPA Consent Revocation Rule, Again By Andrew Folks On January 6, 2026, the FCC extended its waiver of 2024 rules requiring businesses to honor consent revocation requests uniformly across...
1/10/2026 10:51:47 PM Menards Enters Into Multi-State Settlement Over Rebate and Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Right before the holidays, the big-box retailer Menards entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the Attorneys General of...
1/8/2026 11:04:44 PM FTC to Reexamine Consumer Harm in a Data-Driven Economy By Holly Melton Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that, on February 26, it will host a workshop focused on a deceptively simple question: how...
1/7/2026 7:36:32 PM Eleventh Circuit Upholds FTC Summary Judgment in Case Involving Hidden Fees By Holly Melton Here we go again. The Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed a district court decision finding that Corpay, Inc. (formerly FleetCor...
1/6/2026 2:27:04 AM NYC to Crack Down on "Junk Fees" and "Subscription Tricks and Traps" By Jeff Greenbaum New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two executive orders signaling that the City intends to make fighting “junk fees” and...
1/4/2026 8:05:13 PM Alaska AG Settles with Car Dealers Over Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Late last month, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox announced that the Alaska Department of Law entered into a settlement with Lithia...
12/30/2025 7:22:38 PM Subway Series: Reviews and Testimonials By Terri Seligman It’s the end of the year and I figured I’d close it out by reviving one of my favorite types of blog posts: commenting on an ad I saw on...
12/29/2025 3:16:23 PM Mamdani Appoints Former FTC Consumer Protection Director to Lead Consumer Affairs By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he is appointing Samuel Levine as the Commissioner of the New York...