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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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April 27, 2026
Indian Solar Cells Face Steep Early US Duties
Indian solar cells entering the U.S. are facing potential triple-digit antidumping duties, while those cells from Laos and Indonesia could be hit with lower duties, after the imports from all three countries were preliminarily found Monday to be sold at unfair prices.
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April 27, 2026
How Food, Beverage Claims May Preview Cosmetic Litigation
Class action litigation targeting cosmetics and personal care products is accelerating, with a playbook that comes from the food and beverage industry — and the defenses that succeeded, and failed, in past class actions offer a critical road map for beauty and personal care brands, say attorneys at Crowell.
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April 24, 2026
CFTC Sues New York Over Sports Event Contract Crackdown
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued the state of New York Friday in its latest bid to assert "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets and cut through the state's attempts to shut down certain event contract trading as unregistered gambling.
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April 24, 2026
Alaska Airlines Escapes Suit Over Hawaiian Merger, For Now
A Hawaiian federal judge on Friday dismissed a private antitrust lawsuit that challenged Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, rejecting the passengers' asserted geographic markets and their contention that the merger would lead to anticompetitive effects in the markets.
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April 24, 2026
Korean Search Giant, Others Escape App Data Privacy Suit
A California federal judge has trimmed a putative class action accusing South Korean internet conglomerate and search giant Naver Corp. and several affiliates of illegally collecting biometric data from users of a pair of messaging and photo-editing apps, finding the court lacked jurisdiction over Naver and other foreign defendants while allowing some privacy claims to proceed against the remaining companies.
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
Readership
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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