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Consumer Protection

  • June 13, 2025

    DC Circ. Urged To Reject Approval For Braille-Free Drug Label

    Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. is urging the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court decision upholding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a generic sleep-disorder drug without Braille labeling, a move the company argues jeopardizes patient safety.

  • June 13, 2025

    Michigan AG Sues Auto Suppliers Over Toxic Pollution

    The Michigan Attorney General's Office alleged two auto parts suppliers illegally discharged untreated contaminated water that reached multiple bodies of water and emitted an unlawful amount of air pollutants in a new complaint seeking civil penalties and contamination cleanup costs.

  • June 13, 2025

    Trump's Firing Of CPSC Commissioners Ruled Illegal

    A Maryland judge ruled Friday that the removal of three U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission commissioners by President Donald Trump was unlawful, finding a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protected a Federal Trade Commission member from removal applies to the members of the CPSC. 

  • June 13, 2025

    SEC, Ripple Again Ask NY Judge To Approve Settlement

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs Inc. have again urged a New York federal judge to approve lower penalties against the blockchain company citing "exceptional circumstances," following the judge's previous rejection of the joint request on procedural grounds.

  • June 13, 2025

    3 Firms Get Early Lead Roles In Daedong Data Breach Claims

    A North Carolina federal judge handed three plaintiffs firms interim lead counsel roles in a proposed class seeking to hold tractor manufacturer Daedong-USA Inc. accountable for a data breach, while also agreeing to consolidate the three suits.

  • June 13, 2025

    MoneyGram Will Pay $250K To Finish Off ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ, NY Suit

    MoneyGram has agreed to pay $250,000 to end a Biden-era remittance practice suit that was on its last legs after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pulled out of the enforcement action earlier this year, leaving the New York attorney general as the sole plaintiff.

  • June 13, 2025

    Hopes Run High For Senate's Focus On Universal Service

    Telecom industry groups are expressing guarded optimism that Congress could soon reform the nation's telecommunications subsidy system as a high court decision looms on the future of the Universal Service Fund.

  • June 13, 2025

    Chervon, Lowe's Say Recall Blocks Explosive Battery Suit

    Chervon North America Inc. and Lowe's Home Centers LLC urged an Illinois federal court Friday to throw out a proposed class action alleging they made and sold lithium-ion batteries that were prone to overheating and combusting, saying a December recall already provided all the relief the plaintiffs could receive.

  • June 13, 2025

    Fla. Judge Tosses $500M Red Cross Haiti Relief Suit

    A Florida federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing the American Red Cross of misusing over $500 million meant for Haitian earthquake victims after finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish standing.

  • June 13, 2025

    FCC Urged To Clarify 'Quiet Hours' Call Restrictions

    A telemarketing trade group is continuing to push the Federal Communications Commission to rule that recipients of solicitations during the commission's designated "quiet hours" cannot sue if they previously consented to getting messages.

  • June 13, 2025

    Hemp Vape Maker Wants Out Of Buyer's Delta-9 THC Suit

    The maker of hemp-based electronic cigarettes under the Cake brand is asking a California federal judge to throw out a buyer's claim that the products illegally exceed federal thresholds for delta-9 THC content, saying his vague complaint doesn't meet pleading standards.

  • June 13, 2025

    Robocall Blocker Hits Synchrony Financial With TCPA Suit

    A robocall blocking company took Synchrony Financial to Connecticut federal court for allegedly placing thousands of unwanted and unlawful prerecorded phone calls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, calls that the firm said have made its service more expensive to provide.

  • June 12, 2025

    Calif. Insurance Chief Probes State Farm's Wildfire Coverage

    California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Thursday that he is launching an investigation into State Farm's handling of thousands of claims from the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires, as complaints continue to grow.

  • June 12, 2025

    Trump Admin Parries Fed Talk As Judge Weighs NCUA Firings

    A Trump administration attorney studiously deflected questions about the Federal Reserve at a Thursday court hearing on President Donald Trump's firing of two Democratic credit union regulators, leaving the central bank's independence as the elephant in the room.

  • June 12, 2025

    Google Again Asks To Trim Yelp's Antitrust Suit

    Google is once again asking a California federal judge to trim Yelp's case accusing it of monopolizing the local search market, arguing that the reworked complaint doesn't fix deficiencies the court pointed out in a dismissal order earlier this year.

  • June 12, 2025

    'I Want Names': YouTube Attys' MDL Redactions Face Scrutiny

    A California federal magistrate judge ordered YouTube on Thursday to provide him with unredacted versions of documents it produced in sprawling multidistrict litigation over claims social media is addictive, and demanded that YouTube identify counsel who made its relevance-redaction determinations, saying. "I want names and I want teams."

  • June 12, 2025

    Neb. Accuses Temu Of 'Siphoning' User Data, Fueling IP Theft

    Chinese bargain-shopping app Temu is unlawfully gathering sensitive information from minors and other customers through secretly installed malware and is allowing intellectual property infringement to "thrive" on its platform, Nebraska's attorney general alleged in a sweeping new lawsuit. 

  • June 12, 2025

    Judge Pans 'Breathtaking' ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Disavowal Of Redlining Deal

    An Illinois federal judge Thursday refused to allow the Trump administration to abandon a recently settled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau redlining case, calling the ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ's bid to refund a Chicago-area mortgage lender accused of discriminatory lending practices "breathtaking."

  • June 12, 2025

    Volkswagen Beats SUV Owner's Out-Of-Warranty Defect Suit

    An Alabama federal judge on Wednesday tossed a Volkswagen owner's putative class action accusing the automaker of refusing to cover her allegedly defective SUV under warranty, saying the driver sought repairs outside of warranty limits and failed to show that the vehicle was so unsafe that it was defective.

  • June 12, 2025

    Holmes Seeks 2 Year Cut, Commits To Criminal Justice Work

    Elizabeth Holmes has asked a California federal judge to knock two years off her 11-year prison sentence, arguing she's eligible for the adjustment under sentencing guidelines and has spent her time behind bars tutoring and advocating for her fellow prisoners.

  • June 12, 2025

    Senate Dem Worries 'Salt Typhoon' Still Wreaks Havoc

    The Senate's lead Democrat on spectrum issues said Thursday that last year's massive "Salt Typhoon" cyberattack linked to China may not be over and that giving wireless carriers vast amounts of new spectrum could only make U.S. networks more vulnerable.

  • June 12, 2025

    Florida, Sandoz Say They've Fixed Generic Drug Price-Fix Deal

    The Florida Attorney General's Office and Sandoz Inc. have told a Connecticut federal court they've fixed the problems the court identified with a generic drug price-fixing settlement after other states with claims in the case objected to a clause in the deal.

  • June 12, 2025

    Protect Public Broadcast Channels, Nonprofit Tells FCC

    A media nonprofit serving one of Washington, D.C.'s suburbs urged the Federal Communications Commission to protect access to public, educational and government channels when exploring whether to nix potentially burdensome regulations.

  • June 12, 2025

    23andMe Ombudsman Not Confident Sale Is Lawful

    The privacy expert probing 23andMe's proposed sale of customers' genetic data in bankruptcy told a Missouri federal judge Wednesday that he couldn't determine the deal wouldn't violate state privacy laws and recommended the company be required to obtain consent from its customers before handing over the data.

  • June 12, 2025

    8th Circ. Upholds Block On Minn. Generic-Drug Price Law

    The Eighth Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking a Minnesota law that prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing an "excessive" price increase on generic or biosimilar drugs, agreeing that the law is likely unconstitutional in regulating prices charged nationwide.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Counterfeiting Cases Could Alter TM Law, Hurt Resale Market

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    Trademark infringement litigation brought by Nike and Chanel against resale platforms could reshape the first-sale doctrine, with the future of the $49 billion luxury fashion resale market at stake, says attorney Charles Meyer.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

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    Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • How NY's FAIR Act Mirrors ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State Recommendations

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    New York's proposed FAIR Business Practices Act, which targets predatory lending and junk fees, reflects the Rohit Chopra-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recommendations to states in a number of ways, including by defining "abusive" conduct and adding a new right to file class actions, says Christian Hancock at Bradley Arant.

  • Big Tech M&A Risk Under Trump May Resemble Biden Era

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    Merger review under the Trump administration may not differ substantially from merger review under the Biden administration, particularly in the Big Tech arena, in which case dealmakers and investors should shift the antitrust discount on M&A deals upward, says Jonathan Barnett at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

  • How Mass Arbitration Defense Strategies Have Fared In Court

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    As businesses face consumers who leverage arbitration agreements to compel mass arbitration, companies are trying defense strategies like batching arbitration cases to reduce costs, and escaping specific mass arbitrations without rejecting the process completely, with varying results in the courtroom, say attorneys at Montgomery McCracken.

  • Cosmetic Co. Considerations As More States Target PFAS

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    In the first quarter of the year, seven states introduced or passed legislation focused on banning the sale of cosmetics that contain PFAS, making it necessary for businesses to adjust their product testing and supply chain practices, product formulations, marketing strategies, and more, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Mass. Suit Points To New Scrutiny For Home Equity Contracts

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    The Massachusetts attorney general’s recent charge that a lender sold unregulated reverse mortgages shows more regulators are scrutinizing mortgage alternatives like home equity contracts, but a similar case in the Ninth Circuit suggests more courts need to help develop a consensus on these products' legality, say attorneys at Weiner Brodsky.

  • Perspectives

    Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions

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    The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.

  • $38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils

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    A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.

  • Hints Of Where Enforcement May Grow Under New ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ

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    Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly scaled back enforcement under the new administration, states remain able to pursue Consumer Financial Protection Act violators and the ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ seems set to enhance its focus on predatory loans to military members and fraudulent debt collection and credit reporting practices, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • Series

    Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.

  • Evolving Federal Rules Pose Further Obstacles To NY LLC Act

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    Following the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recent changes to beneficial ownership information reporting under the federal Corporate Transparency Act — dramatically reducing the number of companies required to make disclosures — the utility of New York's LLC Transparency Act becomes less apparent, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • 4th Circ. 'Actionable Inaccuracy' Finding Deepens FCRA Split

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    The Fourth Circuit's March finding in Roberts v. Carter-Young Inc. that an actionable inaccuracy under the Fair Credit Reporting Act can be both legal and factual widens an existing circuit split and should prompt furnishers to review their processes for investigating readily verifiable information, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery

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    The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.

  • Web Tracking Ruling Signals Potential Broadening Of CCPA

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    The Northern District of California's recent decision in Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp. is notable, as it signals a potential broadening of the California Consumer Privacy Act's private right of action beyond data breaches to unauthorized, nonbreach disclosures involving the use of now-ubiquitous tracking technologies, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

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