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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • November 12, 2026

    Meta Says DC Fed. Court Has Oversight Of FTC Settlement

    A lawyer for Meta told a D.C. federal judge Thursday that his court has exclusive jurisdiction over a $5 billion privacy settlement from 2020, not the Federal Trade Commission.

  • November 12, 2026

    3 Vape Distributors Reach Deal To Flee Price-Fixing MDL

    Several cannabis vape distributors have reached a deal that would allow them to escape part of a sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing them of price-fixing CCell-branded hardware, asking a California federal court to give them until early next month to finalize the agreement.

  • November 12, 2026

    CFPB Says Anti-Bias Rule Rollback Tracks Fair Lending Law

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is urging a D.C. federal judge to uphold the recent rollback of fair lending regulations, arguing that consumer advocates' legal challenge largely boils down to policy disagreements that are insufficient to support claims of invalid rulemaking.

  • November 12, 2026

    NYC Becomes 2nd City To Ban Data-Driven Pricing

    New York City Council on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a measure to ban companies from using personal data to offer different prices to different customers for the same goods and services, becoming the second city to prohibit the increasingly prevalent practice known as surveillance pricing.

  • November 12, 2026

    Online Bettors Target DraftKings Over Shifting Sport Odds

    DraftKings is facing a proposed class action in Colorado federal court alleging the online sportsbook uses "deceptive interface design patterns" that lead bettors to place unintended wagers on live sport events.

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