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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • December 12, 2025

    CFTC Drops 'Outdated' Crypto Guidance On Actual Delivery

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn what it called "outdated" guidance on the actual delivery of cryptocurrency, to be more in line with recommendations from the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, and has issued no-action letters to several prediction market platforms.

  • December 12, 2025

    UPPAbaby Moves To Toss Suit Claiming Car Seat Defects

    The maker of UPPAbaby infant products urged a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday to toss a grandmother's proposed class action alleging that three of its infant car seat models are defective, saying the suit "piggybacks" on some parents' grievances about their children's discomfort.

  • December 12, 2025

    BREAKING: J&J Hit With $40M Verdict In Bellwether Talc Trial In LA

    A Los Angeles jury on Friday hit Johnson & Johnson with a $40 million verdict after a month-long bellwether trial, finding its talc products were a substantial factor in causing two women's ovarian cancer but declining to award punitive damages against J&J, which is facing thousands of talc claims nationwide.

  • December 12, 2025

    CooperSurgical Escapes Repeat Filshie Clip Claims In Conn.

    Medical device maker CooperSurgical Inc. has scored a quick win on some women's claims that the Filshie Clip, a coated titanium birth control device, detached and migrated within their bodies, with a Connecticut state judge finding certain plaintiffs could not advance cases similar to claims they lost elsewhere.

  • December 12, 2025

    Buyers Fight To Save Potency Suit Against Pot Co. Cresco

    A proposed class of consumers urged an Illinois federal judge to reject cannabis giant Cresco Labs' bid to end a lawsuit accusing it and its subsidiaries of mislabeling their products to get around state-mandated THC potency limits, arguing that their claims are not preempted by state law but "reinforce it."

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