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Consumer Protection
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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September 21, 2023
Monsanto's Track Record On PCB Warnings Debated At Trial
An industrial historian reviewing Monsanto's decades-old internal files on polychlorinated biphenyls told a Washington state jury in a product liability case Thursday that there's evidence the company purged studies demonstrating the dangers of PCBs in the early 1970s amid growing public concerns about their toxicity.
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September 21, 2023
CFPB Plans Take Aim At Medical Debt Reporting, Data Brokers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday released an early stage outline of potential new rules it is developing that would ban medical debt from consumer credit reports and subject so-called data brokers to increased regulation as credit reporting companies.
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September 21, 2023
Calif. Sues 'Predatory' Clinics Over 'Abortion Pill Reversal'
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday accused several "crisis pregnancy centers" of falsely advertising an unproven and experimental procedure that supposedly reverses a medication abortion, claiming the procedure is risky and slamming the clinics for being "predatory."
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September 21, 2023
Google Judge Questions Need For Health Tracking Injunction
A California federal judge on Thursday appeared disinclined to block Google LLC from tracking user analytics from health care providers' websites while users litigate their allegations the tech giant is unlawfully gathering patient health information, saying the plaintiffs haven't shown that Google is misusing the information.
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September 21, 2023
NY AG Inks $3.5M Deal To Boost College's Cybersecurity
Marymount Manhattan College has agreed to invest $3.5 million in data security enhancements to resolve the New York attorney general's claims that the educational institution's failure to maintain adequate safeguards opened it up to a 2021 cyberattack that exposed personal data belonging to nearly 100,000 students, faculty and alumni.
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
Readership
- Consumer protection, product liability, and class action lawyers at top law firms
- 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