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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 13, 2026
Mass. Court Revives Part Of Tobacco Liability Case
A Massachusetts intermediate appellate court on Friday granted a man a second chance to pursue state consumer protection claims that Philip Morris USA Inc. deceptively marketed the cigarettes his wife smoked before she was diagnosed with cancer.
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March 13, 2026
How World Aquatics Lost An Antitrust Case, But Owed Only $1
World Aquatics, swimming's international governing body, faced a $40 million damages claim from an upstart swimming league that could have been tripled under U.S. antitrust law, but ended up largely off the hook after a nominal $1 January jury verdict.
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March 13, 2026
FTC Ditching In-House Challenges May Be Seen In Close Calls
The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that it plans to start challenging mergers directly in federal court, rather than through its in-house process, and while the move is not expected to sway the outcome of most cases, it could influence the close ones.
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March 13, 2026
Tort Report: Uber Won't OK Bigger Jury At 2nd Bellwether
Trial strategy by Uber ahead of a second bellwether trial in sexual assault multidistrict litigation and a $4 million injury verdict against Publix in Florida lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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March 12, 2026
Texas Panel Probes Regulator's Power In Electric Rate Spat
A Texas appeals court seemed skeptical of a city utility's view that the state's utility commission cannot control how it spends money it collects from providing services, asking Thursday if the regulator could intervene if the municipality used the funds to, for example, give its mayor a Lamborghini.
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