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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • August 19, 2026

    Digital Equity Suit On Ice As Gov't Preps Program Relaunch

    The D.C. federal judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's shutdown of the Digital Equity Act's Competitive Grant Program has put the case on hold until the government relaunches the program without provisions that consider the applicants' race, as it has agreed to do.

  • August 19, 2026

    Franklin Sports Sued Over Badminton Death Of 6-Year-Old Girl

    Sporting goods manufacturer Franklin Sports Inc. faces a wrongful death lawsuit claiming one of its badminton rackets broke during normal play, which sent a metal stem into a 6-year-old girl's temple and caused her to die, according to a lawsuit filed by the child's father in Maine state court.

  • August 19, 2026

    FTC Asks Court To Keep Trans Health Suit In Texas

    The Federal Trade Commission has asked a Texas federal court to keep its suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health in the Lone Star State, saying that the organization incorporated there in 1980.

  • August 19, 2026

    Fla. AG Sues Online Casinos, Claims They Flout Gaming Laws

    Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued operators of online casinos Wednesday in state court, alleging in two lawsuits that the companies and their payment processors openly violate state gambling laws and deceptively market their operations as legal in the state.

  • August 19, 2026

    8th Circ. Backs $1B Broker Commissions Settlement

    The Eighth Circuit decided Wednesday to affirm a more than $1 billion class action settlement that's supposed to resolve antitrust claims against the National Association of Realtors and multiple real estate brokerages, which were accused of running an anticompetitive scheme that involved the brokerages following NAR rules that artificially inflated buyer-broker commissions.

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