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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • June 11, 2026

    4th Circ. Unswayed By Groups Seeking Pipeline Work Pause

    In a pair of published opinions filed Thursday, a Fourth Circuit panel explained its late-April decision to refuse to curb construction on an interstate gas pipeline project pending review of state water quality certifications, after the judges found environmental groups were unlikely to prevail on the merits.

  • June 11, 2026

    Sports Prediction Co. Wins CFTC OK To Launch Event Market

    Sports prediction company ProphetX on Thursday received approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register as a federally regulated prediction market exchange focused specifically on sports-based event contracts, becoming the first American sports-native, direct-clearing prediction market to launch and operate in full compliance with federal law.

  • June 11, 2026

    Conn. Asks FERC To Scrap 'Unjust' Electric Co. Grid Bonuses

    Eversource Energy and Avangrid units were named Thursday in a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission complaint by three Connecticut agencies plus the state attorney general, alleging in-state ratepayers are incorrectly being charged millions for the utilities' once-voluntary participations in a regional transmission grid.

  • June 11, 2026

    GlobalStar Opposes FCC Review Of 2 GHz Satellite Order

    The Federal Communications Commission should ignore a request to rethink its rejection of a plan that would bring sweeping changes to the "Big LEO" satellite rules, an American satellite telecom is telling the agency.

  • June 11, 2026

    Colo. Judge Declines To Stay Discovery In Charity Fund Suit

    A Colorado federal magistrate judge declined to stay discovery Thursday in a Kansas man's lawsuit claiming a Christian nonprofit operating as a "charitable bank account" for clients revoked his access to a fund worth more than $21 million without cause.

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