10 Apr, 2022 FTC Says It's Reviving Old Notices of Penalty Offenses On Cars, Bait & Switch, Energy Savings, Fur, Home Improvement, Textiles, Toys, and Weight Loss By Jeff Greenbaum After last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the Federal Trade Commission's ability to obtain financial relief, the FTC has...
05 Jul, 2021 Pinterest Bans All Weight Loss Advertising By Jeff Greenbaum Pinterest announced that, effective July 1st, it is no longer accepting weight loss advertising on its platform. Pinterest said that it...
10 Jun, 2019 Senator Blumenthal Calls for FTC Investigation of Detox Teas Promoted on Social Media By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, United States Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote to the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate the...
03 Mar, 2019 Pittsburgh Dieters Get Refund Checks From the FTC By Terri Seligman Following from the settlement of this action in 2017, the FTC has just announced that it is mailing nearly $2 million in checks to...
20 Apr, 2018 S.D.N.Y Dismisses Complaint Alleging "Diet" Soda Did Not Assist In Weight Loss By Dorian Thomas A federal district court in New York recently dismissed a complaint brought against Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. alleging that Dr...
01 Mar, 2018 Diet Coke Defeats Class Action False Advertising Claims By Dorian Thomas Plaintiff Shana Becerra filed a class action complaint against The Coca Cola Company claiming that Diet Coke actually caused weight gain...
13 Feb, 2018 Court Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging False Weight Loss Claims By Jeff Greenbaum Yesterday, a federal district court in California dismissed a lawsuit against Vitamin Shoppe, Inc., which alleged that the company had...