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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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March 11, 2026
Bayer AG's Monsanto Pays $1M For Misclassified PCB Docs
Bayer AG-owned Monsanto shelled out $1 million in sanctions on Tuesday based on a Washington state court's findings that the agro-chemical giant improperly marked thousands of documents as privileged when battling PCB poisoning claims tied to an Evergreen State school in a series of cases that have since been settled.
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March 11, 2026
Costco Owes Shoppers Refunds For Voided Tariffs, Suit Says
Costco shoppers are owed back the higher costs they paid as a result of President Donald Trump's global tariffs that the nation's highest court has since declared unlawful, according to a putative consumer class action filed Wednesday in Illinois federal court.
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March 11, 2026
DNA Testing Co. Can't Shake Suit Over Genetic Data Sharing
A Massachusetts federal judge refused to release Nebula Genomics Inc. from a proposed class action accusing it of illegally sharing its customers' genetic information with Meta and other third parties through online tracking tools, finding that the parties' choice-of-law agreement didn't extend to the plaintiff's genetic privacy allegation.
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March 11, 2026
FDIC Plans No Pass-Through Stablecoin Insurance, Hill Says
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Travis Hill said Wednesday that his agency will propose expressly excluding payment stablecoins from pass-through insurance coverage, outlining the move as part of a wide-ranging update on his to-do list of regulatory initiatives.
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March 11, 2026
Grammarly Hit With Class Action Over 'Expert Review' AI Tool
An investigative journalist hit Grammarly's owner with a proposed class action in New York federal court Wednesday, alleging its AI-powered "Expert Review" writing tool misappropriates the names, likenesses and identities of well-known writers and public figures and "involuntarily conscripted" them into serving as Grammarly's unpaid experts.
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
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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