Consumer Protection

  • August 25, 2026

    Target Says Wash. Law Blocks Baby Formula Botulism Claims

    Target Corp. is asking a Washington federal court to throw out claims against it by parents who say their infant child developed infant botulism after eating baby formula purchased at the store, saying the Washington Product Liability Act protects retail sellers from such claims.

  • August 25, 2026

    NY Telecom Faces Call Traffic Blocking, FCC Warns

    A New York-based telecom has apparently been sending illegal calls from abroad over its network and faces the possibility of downstream providers blocking all of its traffic, the Federal Communications Commission said.

  • August 25, 2026

    Indian Citric Acid Faces Triple-Digit Antidumping Duties

    Imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts from India into the U.S. are facing possible large antidumping duties following a U.S. Department of Commerce preliminary determination Monday, with Commerce also finding such imports from Canada aren't being dumped.

  • August 25, 2026

    3 Firms Will Lead Charter Cyberattack Claims For Now

    Attorneys with Milberg PLLC, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP and Hausfeld LLP will serve as class counsel, at least temporarily, in a consolidated class action alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack on Charter Communications Inc., a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

  • August 25, 2026

    Kellogg Sued Over Special K's 'Zero Added Sugar' Claim

    WK Kellogg was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Monday alleging it capitalizes on the demand for healthier foods by falsely advertising its Special K cereals as containing zero added sugar despite the presence of allulose syrup, which is sugar under federal and state labeling standards.

  • August 25, 2026

    Turkey Buyers' Cost-Saving Deals Get OK In Price-Fix Fight

    An Illinois federal judge gave his initial blessing Tuesday to an appeal-waiving and cost-saving settlement Perdue Farms and Foster Farms stuck with indirect turkey buyers after beating their price-fixing conspiracy claims earlier this year.

  • August 25, 2026

    Gun Safety Attorney To Lead NJ Firearms Enforcement Office

    New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport has appointed a former senior director of affirmative litigation at the nonprofit Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to serve as the next director of the Statewide Affirmative Firearms Enforcement Office.

  • August 25, 2026

    Ex-DOJ Fraud Attys Switch To Civil Focus At Boutique Firm

    Criminal fraud prosecutors commonly pursue careers as white collar defense lawyers after exiting the U.S. Department of Justice, but a group of ex-DOJ lawyers who have recently joined national litigation boutique AXS Law Group are embarking on a path less traveled.

  • August 25, 2026

    Judge Concerned About Misinformation In RealPage Case

    A Tennessee federal judge has instructed a settlement administrator in the rent price-fixing litigation against RealPage and others to send out new notices informing eligible class members they have not been left out of deals worth more than $359 million, finding counsel representing intervenors in the case may have wrongfully told parties they've been excluded.

  • August 25, 2026

    Pa. AG Says Snapchat Hooks Kids With 'Ephemeral' Posts

    Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Tuesday that Pennsylvania is suing Snapchat for allegedly harming kids by turning them into compulsive users afraid to miss "ephemeral" posts on the popular app that disappear in time.

  • August 25, 2026

    Calif. Judge OKs $2.25M Settlement In Crab Price-Fixing Suit

    A California judge has preliminarily approved a $2.25 million fund to settle a proposed class action accusing an Oregon seafood company of a conspiracy to cap prices paid to fishermen for Dungeness crab in the Pacific Northwest.

  • August 25, 2026

    Fitness Co. Not Covered In Email Ad Class Suit, Insurer Says

    An insurer said it owes no coverage to a fitness equipment company accused of violating Washington state law by sending misleading email advertisements, telling a Tennessee federal court that the underlying action does not allege covered bodily injury, property damage or personal and advertising injury.

  • August 24, 2026

    'So What?': Albertsons Judge Skeptical Of Wash. Opioid Suit

    A Washington state judge considering Albertsons' mid-trial motion to dismiss allegations it fueled the state's opioid epidemic told lawyers for the state Monday that while they might have shown the pharmacy chain failed to implement an adequate monitoring system, she's still skeptical the company's conduct actually caused the overdose crisis.

  • August 24, 2026

    SEC Crypto Offering Plan Leaves States, Platforms Guessing

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-awaited plan to boost cryptocurrency offerings would clear the way for crypto projects to raise capital from retail traders, but the proposal already faces major questions from how it permits secondary trading to the limits it puts on states.

  • August 24, 2026

    Instagram Wants Teen 'Sessions,' Not Time, Tenn. Jury Told

    Instagram's top data scientist told a Tennessee jury Monday that the company's goal is to increase the amount of "sessions" by teens, not their raw amount of time in the app, though he admitted the latter metric has been on the rise.

  • August 24, 2026

    AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

    During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

  • August 24, 2026

    Calif. Appeals Court Signals Wiretap Law Applies To Trackers

    A California state appeals court appears poised to declare that website tracking technologies generally qualify as pen registers under the state's wiretap law, while finding that the specific trackers at issue in a lawsuit against Variety Media LLC don't fall under this definition because they don't identify the destination of intercepted communications. 

  • August 24, 2026

    DaVita, Patients Get Early Nod In $15M Data Breach Deal

    A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect their personal information, which was exposed in an April 2025 breach, according to an order issued Friday.

  • August 24, 2026

    Google Says Publishers Can't Get 'Fake Privilege' Discovery

    Google urged a New York federal judge not to grant additional discovery to a group of publishers targeting its advertising placement technology dominance in a wider multidistrict litigation, arguing claims of insufficient detail into corporate policies allegedly hiding evidence are belied by the volume of information already cited.

  • August 24, 2026

    Seattle Hookah Lounge Sued Over Fatal Shooting

    The family of a woman shot and killed at a hookah lounge in Seattle are suing several companies connected to the establishment in Washington state court, claiming they negligently allowed violence to occur and failed to provide adequate security despite a known "history of criminal activity" at the location.

  • August 24, 2026

    Spirit Data Sale To Google Draws Objection From Springshot

    Software company Springshot Inc. has filed a limited objection to the $10 million sale of Spirit Aviation Holdings' business data to Google LLC for artificial intelligence training, saying some of the data being sold could potentially constitute Springshot's intellectual property.

  • August 24, 2026

    Fiat Chrysler Brings Defective Headrest Suit To Justices

    Fiat Chrysler is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement, in a proposed class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests.

  • August 24, 2026

    Feds Scrap Biden-Era Policy On Credit-Access Programs

    The Trump administration is withdrawing Biden-era guidance that encouraged banks and other lenders to offer specialized programs to boost credit access for underserved borrowers, according to a new Federal Register notice. 

  • August 24, 2026

    Microsoft Says Consumer Must Arbitrate Tariff Refund Claims

    Microsoft urged a Washington federal judge Friday to force arbitration of an Xbox buyer's proposed class action alleging the company seeks to pocket tariff refunds meant for customers — or toss the case entirely — contending console prices change over time "for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with tariffs."

  • August 24, 2026

    Consumer Groups Urge DOT To Keep Airline Full-Fare Ad Rule

    Consumer advocates have asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to reconsider its plans to upend decades-old requirements that airlines display the total airfare more prominently than other components like taxes and fees, saying the Trump administration is effectively endorsing "drip pricing."

Expert Analysis

  • What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

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    While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

  • NC Dental Review Change Counters Tougher National Trend

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    North Carolina’s elimination of its prior review requirement for dental management agreements departs sharply from the national trend toward expanded corporate practice of medicine oversight, but stakeholders should not view this regulatory shift as a relaxation of compliance expectations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • NY Bill Would Boost Litigation Risk For Cosmetics Cos.

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    The Beauty Justice Act, now pending in the New York Legislature, would not only present compliance challenges for companies making cosmetics and personal care products, but could also be used by private plaintiffs to bring consumer fraud, false advertising, toxic exposure and product liability claims, says Kadeejah Kelly-Previl at Faegre Drinker.

  • Appellate Vape Rulings May Expand State Regulation Powers

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    Two recent federal appeals courts decisions rejecting Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act preemption challenges to state electronic nicotine delivery systems directory laws signal an emerging appellate consensus that could significantly expand states' power to regulate vaping product sales where federal enforcement falls short, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • How Solar Fraud Case Affects Lender Oversight Of Dealers

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to review the Third Circuit's ruling in Migliore v. Sunlight Financial means that residential solar finance companies are protected from vicarious liability for deceptive acts by independent solar dealers — but lenders must still take steps to guard against dealer misconduct, says Rand Manasse at Green Lane Partners.

  • Parsing Gov't Scrutiny Of Lending To Unauthorized Workers

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    Attorneys at Mayer Brown explain guidance recently issued by three banking regulators that addresses risks associated with lending to so-called non-work authorized individuals and discuss what the regulatory update could mean for fintech companies.

  • How FCC Covered List Blitz Is Sidelining Commerce Dept.

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    The swath of recent Federal Communications Commission rulemakings raises serious questions about the purpose and future of Commerce's Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, and how the U.S. government will go forward in imposing national security regulation on domestic applications of adversary-linked technologies, says Peter Jeydel at Troutman.

  • WWE Sanctions Ruling Pins Down Spoliation Lesson

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent verdict in favor of WWE investors may be the most carefully calibrated spoliation sanctions decision in recent memory, and it should reshape how counsel approach their motions — including in federal court, says Ricky Weingarten at Slarskey.

  • DOJ Healthcare Declination Offers Self-Disclosure Checklist

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's declination of criminal charges against Campus Eye Management signals that its new self-disclosure policy provides a real path for healthcare companies to avoid criminal exposure, but that path is paved with speed, transparency and operational remediation, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Amazon v. Perplexity Ruling Limits CFAA Reach Over AI Tools

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Amazon v. Perplexity provides important early guidance on how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to agentic artificial intelligence, and is the latest in a line of rulings in which courts have declined to stretch existing statutes to broadly regulate AI, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Costco Chicken Case Highlights Food Labeling Lessons

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    Recent litigation over allegedly deceptive food labels, including the ongoing proposed class action in a California federal court over Costco's rotisserie chicken, shows that plaintiffs rarely focus on single label statements in isolation — so product claims that comply with regulations could still incur litigation risk, says Brandy Alonzo-Mayland at Michelman & Robinson.

  • Expect More Probes After 3rd Circ. Algorithmic Pricing Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent decision in Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars Entertainment, allowing algorithmic price-fixing claims to proceed past motions to dismiss, may serve as a road map for how to contend with increased litigation risk in this developing area of antitrust law, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • Addressing Merchant Cash Advances In Subchapter V

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    As regulatory enforcement continues and more small businesses turn to Subchapter V bankruptcy to manage merchant cash advance debt, counsel and trustees can take meaningful steps throughout the bankruptcy process to successfully counteract the potentially nefarious actions of MCAs, say Hannah Hutman at Hoover Penrod and Starria Cuffee at Stretto.

  • SEC Rulemaking Radar: The Rubber Meets The Road

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rulemaking agenda shows its regulatory reset taking shape, with sweeping crypto proposals that could bring the biggest changes it has made to broker-dealer, exchange and trading compliance in decades, says Christopher Grobbel at Goodwin.

  • Mitigating The Risk Of Antiestablishment Jurors

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    The legal battles currently embroiling social media companies underscore that jurors with anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking patterns pose myriad risks to corporate defendants, and defense counsel should adapt their trial strategies accordingly, say consultants at Persuasion Strategies.

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