31 Oct, 2024 State AGs Urge Congress to Enact a Federal Price Gouging Law By Jeff Greenbaum This week, fifteen state Attorneys General wrote to Congressional leaders, urging them to enact a federal law that prohibits price...
16 Oct, 2024 Democrats Raise Possibility of Federal Price Gouging Ban With FTC By Jeff Greenbaum Asserting that “[p]rice gouging laws are a widely used, important tool to protect consumers from corporate wrongdoing,” a group of...
04 Mar, 2023 NYAG Proposes New Price Gouging Rules By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she is proposing new rules on price gouging in order to "ensure that large...
29 May, 2022 New York Attorney General Issues Warning Letters for Overcharging for Baby Formula By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James sent warning letters to more than thirty retailers telling them to stop overcharging customers...
24 May, 2022 Warning Retailers About Price Gouging, NYC Mayor Declares State of Emergency Related to Infant Formula By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency related to the shortage of supply of infant formula. By...
07 Apr, 2022 Retailer Pays $175K Over Price Gouging Charges By Jeff Greenbaum Grocery store chain Smart & Final entered into a $175,000 settlement with the California Attorney General's Office, resolving allegations...
06 Mar, 2022 New York Attorney General Launches Rulemaking on Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she has launched a rulemaking process in order to look into whether major...
13 Jul, 2021 Walmart Settles Price Gouging Charges Related to Online Sales By Jeff Greenbaum San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow announced that he reached a settlement with Walmart Corporation, resolving charges that...
13 May, 2021 NYAG Issues Warning on Gasoline Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James issued an alert about the potential for gasoline price gouging following the interruption of the...
24 Sep, 2020 New York Court Dismisses NYAG Price Gouging Lawsuit By Jeff Greenbaum Back in May, the New York Attorney General sued Quality King Distributors, alleging that the company dramatically increased its wholesale...
12 Aug, 2020 NYAG Sues One of the Nation's Largest Egg Producers for Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Hillandale Farms, one of the country's largest egg producers, for price gouging. The NYAG...
29 Jun, 2020 New NYC Price Gouging Rule Goes Into Effect and NYC Settles Price Gouging Case With Metro Drugs By Jeff Greenbaum New York City's new price gouging rule, which was proposed by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection last month,...
04 May, 2020 NYC Brings Additional Price Gouging Cases By Jeff Greenbaum The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced that it has sued three more retailers for violating the City's...
15 Apr, 2020 3M Files Second Lawsuit to Combat COVID-19 Price Gouging By Kimberly Maynard After a public dispute with the White House about exporting of N-95 masks, 3M is turning to trademark law to help combat impressions that...
13 Apr, 2020 3M Sues "Unsavory" Company Selling N-95 Masks At Exorbitant Price; CoronaCide Sues "Nefarious" Company Selling Unapproved Home Test Kits By Kimberly Maynard Unfortunately and predictably—which also is unfortunate—as the need for medical supplies to combat the coronavirus has increased, so have...
12 Apr, 2020 With Increasing Enforcement, Retailers Should Ensure Compliance With State and Local Price Gouging Rules By Jeff Greenbaum As the coronavirus health crisis continues, regulators across the country are stepping up their enforcement efforts related to price...