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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • October 09, 2025

    Bessent Touts Trump's 'Community Bank Comeback' Agenda

    U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday pledged a wide-ranging regulatory push to spur a "community bank comeback," previewing plans that include easing capital rules, updating anti-money laundering standards and supporting expanded deposit insurance.

  • October 09, 2025

    Calif. Bans Some Ultraprocessed Foods In School Meals

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday signed a first-in-the-nation bipartisan law that will slowly phase out and eventually ban ultraprocessed foods from public school meals by 2032, marking one of the most significant changes in the state's efforts to reform nutritional standards for children in the Golden State. 

  • October 09, 2025

    Senate Crypto Bill Weakens State Fraud Protection, Experts Say

    State regulators and legal experts are urging leaders of the Senate Banking Committee to overhaul their draft crypto market structure legislation on the grounds that the current text would weaken state power to police fraud and protect investors in crypto markets and beyond.

  • October 09, 2025

    Trade Court Upholds Malaysian Wind Tower Duties

    The U.S. Court of International Trade on Thursday upheld the federal government's antidumping review of a Malaysian wind tower exporter, finding the Commerce Department supported its decision to decline the company's recommendations in reaching a final duty rate.

  • October 09, 2025

    9th Circ. Probes Buyers On HIV Drug Antitrust Claims

    Insurers and health plans told a Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday that a lower court was wrong to toss their claims that Gilead orchestrated a product-hop scheme for its HIV drugs ahead of trial and for not seeing a price drop as evidence of an alleged agreement with Teva to delay generics.

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