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Consumer Protection Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on consumer rights law. Coverage includes litigation and enforcement actions over false advertising, deceptive trade practices, predatory lending, and debt collection, as well as related policy developments.
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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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February 09, 2026
Frontier Airlines To Face Racial Bias Suit On 9th Circ. Remand
The Ninth Circuit on Monday largely revived a racial bias lawsuit against Frontier Airlines, saying in an unpublished opinion that a jury could possibly find for the father-and-son passengers based on the case's facts.
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February 09, 2026
Afni Faces Class Action Over Alleged Misleading Claim Letters
Debt collector Afni Inc. has been accused of trying to dupe people into paying "unadjudicated" damage demands by sending auto crash claim letters disguised as collection notices, according to a proposed class action that the Illinois-based company removed to Seattle federal court on Friday.
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February 09, 2026
Meta Allows Pump-And-Dump Scam Ads, New Suit Says
A new proposed class action in California federal court alleges Meta Platforms Inc. knowingly allowed pump-and-dump scammers to advertise on its platform and to promote and falsely inflate the prices of certain stocks before selling their shares, gaining millions of dollars from Meta users.
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February 09, 2026
Meta And Google's 'Addiction Machine' Hurt Kids, Jury Told
The first bellwether trial over thousands of consolidated cases alleging social media apps harm young people's mental health began in a California state court Monday, with an attorney for the plaintiff telling jurors that internal documents from defendants Meta and Google will prove they knew their products addicted children.
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February 09, 2026
Meta 'Lies' Hid Risk To Kids, New Mexico AG Says
New Mexico's attorney general went to trial Monday over Facebook and Instagram's alleged harms to young users, saying parent company Meta has long known of mental health and sexual exploitation risks but has obscured the truth, sometimes with "outright lies."
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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- 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