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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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April 10, 2026
BREAKING: Meta Must Face Mass. AG's Instagram Addiction Suit
Meta Platforms Inc. will have to face a suit brought by the Massachusetts attorney general claiming the company is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, the state's top court ruled Friday.
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April 09, 2026
Conspiracy Claims Not 'Plausible,' Insurers Tell Calif. Judge
California homeowners affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires cannot "plausibly" allege insurers conspired to eliminate competition in the marketplace, an attorney for Chubb and other insurers told a California state judge Thursday in a bid to toss the homeowners' litigation, chalking market exits to insurers' independent economic interests.
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April 09, 2026
CFPB Pans Debt Collector's Bid To Exit 'Onerous' 2023 Order
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is urging a Virginia federal court to deny a major debt collector's bid to exit a Biden-era settlement with the agency, arguing the firm's claims of struggles due to "finfluencers" and credit repair outfits don't justify unwinding the deal.
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April 09, 2026
Yale Medical School Can't Nix Fraudulent Insemination Suit
Yale can't escape a negligence suit by onetime patients alleging its former fertility doctor secretly inseminated them with his own sperm, after a Connecticut judge said that a letter from an anonymous doctor, which is mandated by law to support their claims, met the statutory requirements.
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April 09, 2026
Cantwell Wants Fired FTC Dems At Senate Oversight Hearing
The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is pushing for the two commissioners who were fired from the Federal Trade Commission last year to be invited to an upcoming hearing, arguing that their presence is "necessary" to conduct proper oversight of how the Trump administration's influence has impacted the agency's work to protect consumers.
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