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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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March 06, 2026
Failed Fintech Synapse Is Sued Over Missing Customer Funds
Collapsed fintech middleware firm Synapse Financial Technologies, its brokerage subsidiary and its former executives have caught a proposed class action seeking to take the firm to task over alleged misrepresentations and mismanagement that left $85 million in customer funds unaccounted for.
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March 06, 2026
Meta Witness Says Spotty Audits Show Commitment To Safety
A trust and safety expert witness for Meta defended the company Friday over shortcomings laid out in internal audits, telling a jury that the audits' existence refutes the New Mexico attorney general's claims that Meta did not take user safety seriously.
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March 06, 2026
Meta, Google Begin Defense As Mental Harm Plaintiff Rests
Attorneys for the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether California trial in a suit accusing Instagram and YouTube of harming children's mental health rested their case Friday, opting not to call the plaintiff's mother to testify live despite the defense portraying her as the potential cause of the plaintiff's mental health struggles.
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March 06, 2026
Atty Should've Checked Docket, Says Philips CPAP Judge
An attorney and his client have no one but themselves to blame for the permanent end to a product liability lawsuit over a recalled Philips sleep breathing machine, a Pennsylvania federal judge said on Friday, saying it was on them to monitor the docket.
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March 06, 2026
Wash. Antispam Penalties Near Cut From $500 Down To $100
Washington lawmakers passed a bill Friday that would cut damages available to plaintiffs under the state's antispam law from $500 per offending message to just $100, significantly reducing Commercial Electronic Mail Act penalties for companies that send offending emails or text messages.
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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- 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