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Consumer Protection Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on consumer rights law. Coverage includes litigation and enforcement actions over false advertising, deceptive trade practices, predatory lending, and debt collection, as well as related policy developments.
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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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November 27, 2024
Google Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Play Store Ruling In Epic Row
Google has pressed the Ninth Circuit to reverse an injunction forcing it to allow third-party app distribution on its Play Store, arguing that the lower court's ruling will "directly undercut Google's efforts to compete against Apple and the iPhone."
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November 27, 2024
Fla. Judge Halts School Board Depos In Book Ban Suit
A Florida federal judge ordered a partial stay that temporarily halts depositions of Escambia County School Board members in a First Amendment challenge to a ban on certain books, but deferred staying the entire case until an appeal before the Eleventh Circuit is resolved.
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November 27, 2024
Prudential Website Visitors Get Class Cert. In Tracking Row
A California federal judge has certified a class of life insurance quote seekers who are accusing Prudential Financial Inc. and its software vendor of illegally recording their keystrokes and information, finding that questions about website visitors' knowledge of this practice can be resolved on a classwide basis.
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November 27, 2024
Law Firm's Ads Irrelevant To Toxic Tort Case, Plaintiffs Say
Colorado residents suing a medical sterilization facility over alleged exposure to ethylene oxide have urged a state judge to reject the company's subpoena of Meta for documents about a plaintiffs law firm's advertising for the litigation, arguing the information is irrelevant and would invade their privacy.
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November 27, 2024
Zoom Offers SEC $18M To Settle 2020 Privacy Probe
Zoom Communications disclosed in a U.S. Securities Exchange and Commission filing that it has offered $18 million to settle an agency investigation into "various security, data protection and privacy matters," including the videoconferencing platform's encryption.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Council of Better Business Bureaus, National Advertising Division
- Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State attorneys general offices
- State consumer protection regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Fair Credit Billing Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair Debt Collections Practices Act
- Lanham Act
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Truth in Lending Act
- State and international consumer protection legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Deceptive or predatory loan and loan servicing disputes
- Suits over false or deceptive advertising, marketing, or labeling of services
- Cases over consumer data breaches
- Disputes over collection of consumers’ personal information
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of consumer protection practices
Readership
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals