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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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December 11, 2025
Trump Executive Order Targets 'Excessive' State AI Laws
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a controversial executive order establishing a "minimally burdensome national standard" for regulating artificial intelligence, deeming the order necessary for the United States to remain a leader in AI amid "excessive" state regulation.
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December 11, 2025
FSOC To Tack Toward Deregulation For Growth, Bessent Says
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that the Financial Stability Oversight Council will pivot toward a focus on promoting economic growth through deregulation, charting a new course for the panel that mirrors shifts underway at its member agencies.
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December 11, 2025
House Panel Advances Nearly 20 Bills To Protect Kids Online
A package of 18 bills that propose using methods such age verification mandates, government-run studies and educational campaigns to enhance online safeguards for children passed through a House subcommittee Thursday, despite concerns from Democrats that the measures wouldn't be enough to counter recent moves to reduce the roles of states and the Federal Trade Commission in this space.
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December 11, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Rethink Vegas Hotels' Win In Price-Fixing Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday rejected Las Vegas hotel guests' request for the full appeals court to reconsider a panel's August ruling that threw out their proposed class action accusing the casino-hotel operators of using software to illegally inflate room rates.
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December 11, 2025
LA Bellwether Jury To Decide If J&J Hid Talc Risk For Decades
An attorney for one of two women who claim Johnson & Johnson's talcum products caused their ovarian cancer told a California jury Thursday in a bellwether trial's closing arguments that the company hid the health risks of talc for decades, while the company's attorney insisted the science is on their side.
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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- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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