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November 12, 2026
The rent-to-own financing company Acima has reached a $183.5 million deal with 43 states to resolve claims that it misled consumers about the terms of its rental-purchase agreements and deceptively marked up prices, attorneys general said Thursday.
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November 12, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's staff has granted an AT&T gateway supplier a one-year exemption from a security restriction so that it can make hardware upgrades.
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November 12, 2026
A Massachusetts judge ruled that Harvard University and a group of major Boston-area hospitals do not have to pay higher fees that a power plant imposed unilaterally, but he rejected their request for treble damages under the state's consumer protection laws.
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November 10, 2026
Microsoft has urged a Washington state court to dismiss a proposed class action from four students who accused the company of collecting personal data through school-provided products such as Microsoft 365 and Minecraft Education, asserting that certain claims are federally preempted and that the students had no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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November 10, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is backing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's approval of perpetual contracts tied to individual stocks, arguing the depiction in a special interest organization's lawsuit of "a CFTC gone rogue, and an SEC gone missing" is mistaken.
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