Consumer Protection

  • July 31, 2026

    NJ Justices Reject Mass Tort Status For Debt Buyer Suits

    The New Jersey Supreme Court denied borrowers' bid to consolidate 67 lawsuits accusing LVNV Funding LLC of attempting to collect consumer debts, finding that the debt‑collection actions do not fit the model of the large‑scale personal injury or product liability matters that typically warrant multicounty litigation.

  • July 31, 2026

    District Judge Halts Overlapping Valve Arbitration Fee Suit

    A Washington federal court has paused a proposed class action from gamers seeking nearly $21 million in arbitration fees from Valve as the company appeals an order in another case declining to stop arbitrations against it.

  • July 31, 2026

    FTC, Southern Glazer Need More Time To Finalize Settlement

    The Federal Trade Commission has told a California federal judge that it needs a little more time to work out the finer points of its settlement with Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, which would end the agency's first Robinson-Patman Act case in decades.

  • July 31, 2026

    Hotel Booking Cos. Ink $1.1M Deal To End Wash. AG's Suit

    Hotel booking companies Lexyl Technologies LLC and Bookonline.com LLC agreed to pay nearly $1.1 million to resolve claims from Washington's attorney general that the platforms deceptively added a "refund protection fee" to users' reservations, according to a settlement announced Friday.

  • July 31, 2026

    Reynolds Wrap Users Win Cert. In 'Made In USA' False Ad Suit

    A New York federal judge certified a class of Reynolds Wrap users who alleged the household goods company deceptively labeled its aluminum foil as "Made in U.S.A." despite that most of the production takes place elsewhere, ruling their claims are typical since they all saw and relied on the representations when buying the products. 

  • July 31, 2026

    Fox Accuses Newsmax Of 'Gamesmanship' In Antitrust Suit

    Fox News Corp. has accused Newsmax of unfair "gamesmanship" that it says will waste resources and time as it seeks to amend its antitrust case accusing Fox of pressuring cable and streaming providers not to carry the rival right-leaning broadcaster.

  • July 31, 2026

    Amazon Misled Buyers On Seafood Sustainability, Suit Claims

    Shoppers accused Amazon on Friday of overstating the sustainability of seafood sold under its Whole Foods Market brand and others, claiming in a proposed class action that the company uses "unqualified, unsupported, and at times untrue environmental and ecological representations" to trick buyers into paying more for the products.

  • July 31, 2026

    Suit Says 'Hidden' AI Notetaker Trains Model On Meetings

    EDITING--Granola, a provider of AI-powered notetaking services, faces a wiretapping lawsuit in California federal court claiming its software secretly records virtual meeting conversations without the knowledge or consent of those there, using the data collected to train artificial intelligence models,

  • July 31, 2026

    Fla. Panel Affirms $103M Award Over Ford Mustang Explosion

    A Florida appellate court on Friday upheld a $103 million award against Ford Motor Co. in a lawsuit alleging responsibility for a Mustang explosion that severely injured its driver, saying the automaker couldn't sufficiently explain why the case should not have gone to a jury. 

  • July 31, 2026

    Fla. Judge Clears Settlement For Disrupted Soccer Match

    A Florida federal judge has approved a corrected $14 million class action settlement reached by soccer fans with the organizers and hosts of a 2024 Copa America championship game held in Miami Gardens during which people without tickets stormed the event.

  • July 31, 2026

    CFTC Fines George Santos Over Prediction Market Trades

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered convicted former U.S. Rep. George Santos to pay $35,000 to settle claims he manipulated a prediction market on whether he would attend the 2026 State of the Union address.

  • July 31, 2026

    NBA Lets Google's Trackers Intercept User Data, Suit Says

    The NBA misleads users about their digital privacy by displaying a pop-up banner on its platform that purportedly enables them to opt out of tracking cookies, which, in reality, do nothing to stop trackers that don't rely on cookies, according to a proposed class action recently removed to a California federal court.

  • July 31, 2026

    Broadcast Workers Blast FCC Plan To Nix TV Ownership Cap

    A broadcast workers' union urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a plan by agency Chief Brendan Carr to lift the 39% national cap on TV station chains' audience reach, saying the proposal threatens local news operations.

  • July 31, 2026

    Meta Says AI Voice Suit Rests On Speculation, Not Facts

    Meta sought to throw out a proposed class action claiming it flouted Illinois' biometric privacy law when it used the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence models, arguing the suit is little more than "professional anxiety" over AI "in search of a cause of action."

  • July 31, 2026

    Reddit AI Data Scraping Case Mostly Survives Dismissal

    A Manhattan federal judge on Friday largely declined to dismiss Reddit's suit accusing SerpApi of illegally scraping its content to be sold to Perplexity for training its artificial intelligence models.

  • July 31, 2026

    J&J's $25M Talc Appeal Can Advance, Conn. Panel Rules

    A Connecticut appeals court has advanced Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a $25 million talc trial judgment, denying a Massachusetts real estate developer's attempt to dismiss the appeal based on what he argued was a late-filed brief.

  • July 31, 2026

    Chipwich Maker Drops $4.5M Recall Coverage Suit

    An ice cream sandwich maker has pulled a $4.5 million suit accusing its insurance broker of negligently failing to recommend and procure a policy that could have covered a recall of its popular Chipwich treats, Connecticut state court records show.

  • July 31, 2026

    Hemp Beverage Cos. Take Aim At Ohio Law

    A coalition of more than a dozen hemp beverage manufacturers is seeking to block enforcement of a new Ohio law that reclassified the products as "marijuana," at least the second federal lawsuit to challenge the new state policy.

  • July 31, 2026

    Pa. Panel Again Says 'Clickwrap' Arbitration Unenforceable

    The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reiterated that "clickwrap" arbitration agreements are unenforceable, holding in the case of an amusement park patron dissatisfied over a roller coaster closure that the inconspicuous digital disclaimers weren't enough to deny a litigant's right to a jury trial.

  • July 31, 2026

    FIFA Adviser Quits, Asian Federation Denounces Investor Plan

    A top adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino resigned on Friday as Asia's soccer federation joined the condemnation of FIFA's proposed private investor sale, while the sport's international governing body defended the plan and said it would go forward.

  • July 31, 2026

    NTIA Tees Up 4.4 GHz Band For Commercial Wireless Use

    A federal plan would reinvigorate the 4.4 gigahertz airwaves for possible use in 6G wireless development, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday.

  • July 31, 2026

    Just For Men Maker Says Insurers Must Cover Injury Deals

    The maker of Just For Men hair color products said in a new federal complaint that its excess liability insurers improperly refused to cover personal injury lawsuit settlements connected to allegations that products from the popular line permanently discolored users' faces, after millions in the company's primary policies were exhausted.

  • July 31, 2026

    NJ University Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach

    Kean University failed to implement basic cybersecurity safeguards prior to a ransomware attack attributed to cybercrime group Qilin, exposing the personal information of thousands of students, applicants, alumni and employees and leaving them at lifelong risk of identity theft, according to a proposed class action brought in New Jersey federal court.

  • July 31, 2026

    Toyota Dealer Says Body Shop's Bogus Claims Cost It $2M

    A Massachusetts Toyota dealership claims in a lawsuit filed in state court on Friday that it was forced to pay back more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims made under a program for vehicles with a paint defect, as a result of collusion between two employees and an auto body shop it had long worked with.

  • July 31, 2026

    Judge Sends RICO Action Against Gaming Co. To Arbitration

    A putative class action accusing casino-style gaming website Stake.us, musical artist Drake and others of running an illegal gambling operation must be arbitrated, a Virginia federal court ruled, finding Stake.us' ability to unilaterally modify its arbitration provision doesn't render it unenforceable.

Expert Analysis

  • A Shift In How Policymakers Are Approaching PBM Regulation

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    Recent federal and state legislative and regulatory activity involving pharmacy benefit managers represent a change in focus from transparency to PBM compensation structures, vertical integration and competitive effects, say attorneys at Barclay Damon.

  • Calif. Wiretap Ruling May Reshape Pixel Tracking Litigation

    The recent dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Blue Shield of California of violating the federal Wiretap Act highlights the gap between legacy wiretap laws and modern browser architecture, and the tendency of pixel tracking complaints to oversimplify or mischaracterize how browsers work, says Phil Richards at ThreatHandle Consulting.

  • How State Actions Are Reshaping Surveillance Pricing Risk

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    Amid heightened state enforcement activity and expanding legislative action to curb surveillance pricing concerns related to transparency, fairness and discrimination, businesses should closely examine how consumer data is used in pricing decisions, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Tips For Issuers Left In Lurch Without Genius Act Final Rules

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    The compliance runway envisioned by the Genius Act is steadily shrinking after regulators failed to finalize all the required implementing regulations by July 18, so stablecoin issuers should begin implementing "no-regrets" compliance measures and securing outside vendors before the law takes full effect in January, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

  • Why Courts Are Pushing Back On Greenwashing Laws

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    Recent Fourth Circuit and California federal court decisions blocking state greenwashing statutes on First Amendment grounds reveal a tension at the heart of environmental marketing regulation — while states want clarity, courts aren't prepared to let legislatures flatly ban categories of truthful commercial speech, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • At The Intersection Of Right-To-Repair Laws And IP Rights

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    Right-to-repair legislation passing through Congress highlights a broad tension between manufacturers' security measures and consumer autonomy, with important repercussions for the automotive industry's intellectual property rights, says Keith Noe at Lando & Anastasi. 

  • Key Post-Proposal Shifts Likely In CFPB Loss Mitigation Rule

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    Mortgage servicers, borrowers and consumer advocates should prepare for a likely narrowed version of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's loss mitigation rule, which is likely to permit sequential reviews, defer to investor guidelines, extend compliance timelines and preempt conflicting state standards, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Series

    Teaching SEC Investigations Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Instructing a law school course on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations has made me a more thoughtful, deliberate practitioner because it requires me to continually reassess and challenge what I know about securities law enforcement, how I know it and how best to explain it, says David Chase at Miami Law.

  • Monsanto Ruling Bolsters Generic Drug Labeling Preemption

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell concerns herbicide labeling regulated by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, but also carries weighty implications for preemption of state law labeling claims against drug manufacturers, say Terry Henry and Ann Querns at Blank Rome and Melanie Leney at Aurobindo Pharma.

  • What's Inside Proposed, Expanded NY Stablecoin Regulations

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    New York's recently proposed regulations for payment stablecoin issuers would, if adopted, increase the regulatory burdens of a state license, and midsize issuers considering a conversion to a federal charter should weigh the associated costs of both options, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • What Corporate Counsel Can Learn From OpenAI Test Breach

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    The significance of the recent artificial intelligence testing breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face lies in what it reveals about the path of AI’s evolution, because legal professionals must translate that trajectory into actionable governance, contractual and advisory frameworks, says Jason Mueller at Vorys.

  • Assessing DOJ Antitrust's New, Faster Merger Review Option

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    The U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division's recently announced targeted second request option and new model timing signal a commercially friendly stance and a departure from the prior administration's position, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Discovery Ruling Shows How Extant Rules Mesh With AI Tools

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    A California federal court’s recent ruling in Schulte v. LinkedIn reinforces that existing discovery rules can and should accommodate emerging artificial intelligence technologies, providing litigants with confidence that well-designed AI-enabled workflows can satisfy reasonableness and proportionality standards, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • AG Watch: Minn. Defends Prediction Markets Ban

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    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has aggressively defended the state's landmark statute banning prediction markets, but the court's July 27 temporary injunction in U.S. v. Minnesota blocking the law from taking effect could set the template for state authority across the country, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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    Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

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    U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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