Consumer Protection

  • June 10, 2026

    Eos 'Natural' Lip Balm Has Synthetic Ingredients, Suit Says

    A proposed class of consumers is suing eos Products LLC in California federal court, alleging that although it markets its lip balms as "100% Natural & Organic," they actually contain two synthetic ingredients.

  • June 10, 2026

    Container Cos. Sued For Alleged Price-Fixing Scheme

    Shipping container buyers filed a proposed class action over an alleged conspiracy among the world's largest container manufacturers to limit production and raise prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, on the heels of a criminal indictment last month.

  • June 10, 2026

    Debt Co. Says Conn. Can't 'Second Guess' Law Firm Work

    An Illinois servicing company for a debt adjustment law firm has filed a new challenge to the Connecticut Department of Banking's attempts to regulate its conduct, asking a state judge to block an enforcement action seeking $100,000 for each alleged violation of state licensing rules.

  • June 10, 2026

    Lab To Pay $4.9M To Settle AGs' COVID Test Pricing Suit

    Eighteen states' attorneys general have entered into a $4.87 million settlement with GS Labs to resolve claims that the defunct testing company overcharged consumers for COVID-19 tests, according to statements issued Wednesday.

  • June 10, 2026

    DOJ Says Student Borrowers' Suit Is Moot After Rule's Vacatur

    The Trump administration is urging a D.C. federal judge to toss a lawsuit seeking to revive the Biden-era SAVE student loan repayment rule, arguing that the case is moot because there is no rule left to enforce after the Eighth Circuit ordered the plan vacated in March.

  • June 10, 2026

    Conn. Woman Says Pharmacy 'Grossly' Exceeded Med Dose

    A New York compounding pharmacy injured a Connecticut woman by providing her with a medication that contained a "grossly excessive" amount of the active ingredient, as much as 91,511% of the dose on the label, according to a product liability and malpractice lawsuit.

  • June 10, 2026

    $50M Atkore PVC Price-Fix Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Early OK

    A $50 million settlement between Atkore Inc. and end users who claimed the polyvinyl chloride pipe maker participated in a price-fixing scheme during the height of the pandemic has cleared its first hurdle, receiving a judge's initial approval Wednesday in an Illinois federal court.

  • June 10, 2026

    User Says 'Nature's Ozempic' Can't Keep Weight Loss Promise

    A proposed class of supplement buyers is suing the makers of Metabolism Ignite in California federal court, saying the supplements, advertised as "Nature's Ozempic," can't match the effectiveness of the name-brand medication that the advertisers compare it to.

  • June 10, 2026

    Tenn. Remittance Tax Is Unconstitutional, Fintech Group Says

    A top fintech industry organization sued Wednesday to block an impending new Tennessee tax on outgoing international money transfers, challenging what the trade group contends is an unconstitutional toll on the billions of dollars sent abroad from the state each year.

  • June 09, 2026

    Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

    A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

  • June 09, 2026

    Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

    Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

  • June 09, 2026

    Kalshi To Start Requiring Employer Info For Certain Markets

    Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.

  • June 09, 2026

    Former XAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Over Safety Warnings

    A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.

  • June 09, 2026

    5th Circ. Pushes FDA On Block Of Flavored Vapes

    A Fifth Circuit panel pressed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to explain how an apparently uniform denial of flavored e-cigarettes would not fall under federal rulemaking, saying Tuesday that the agency's decision-making seemingly "squawks like a rule."

  • June 09, 2026

    Key Freight Broker Negligence Win A 'Relief' For Plaintiffs Atty

    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that freight brokers might also be liable under state law for selecting unsafe motor carriers involved in catastrophic crashes will ultimately improve highway safety by ensuring that the industry's longtime gatekeepers strengthen their vetting protocols, according to a plaintiffs attorney who helped secure the pivotal win.

  • June 09, 2026

    FCC Looks To Spur Submarine Cables With New Security Reg

    The Federal Communications Commission will start presuming that submarine cable applications that meet certain qualifications don't have to be referred to the executive branch for national security reviews, if the agency votes yes later this month on the order it'll have before it.

  • June 09, 2026

    Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

    Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

  • June 09, 2026

    Colo. Panel Unsure Surgeon Solely Liable For $67M Judgment

    A Colorado Court of Appeals panel pushed back Tuesday on oral arguments from counsel for a healthcare company arguing a surgeon was exclusively liable for the $67 million judgment entered in an underlying medical malpractice suit under the "captain of the ship" doctrine.

  • June 09, 2026

    NY Floats Rule To Align Its Stablecoin Regs With Genius Act

    New York's Department of Financial Services on Tuesday proposed regulations to ensure its existing stablecoin framework aligns with the U.S. Treasury Department's coming requirements for state regimes under the federal law governing stable-value tokens.

  • June 09, 2026

    Hospital Rating Group Calls $10.5M Fee Bid 'Unreasonable'

    The Leapfrog Group said Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s community hospitals "gratuitously overstaffed" their deceptive trade practices case against the hospital ratings nonprofit and urged a Florida federal court to deny or "massively reduce" Tenet's $10.5 million request for fees.

  • June 09, 2026

    Mayors Rally To Fight Permit 'Shot Clocks,' This Time At FCC

    U.S. mayors are back fighting proposals to impose strict deadlines on local reviews of broadband projects, but this time their focus is not just on Capitol Hill but on the Federal Communications Commission.

  • June 09, 2026

    Wash. Winery's Vintage Label Regs Challenge Tossed For Now

    A Washington federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from an Evergreen State maker of alcoholic beverages over federal vintage labeling limitations, concluding Tuesday that the producer of fruit wine and cider has not clearly proved its challenge of the labels was filed before the relevant statute of limitations lapsed but will get a shot at amending the complaint.

  • June 09, 2026

    BOTS Act Judge Reverses, Tosses Challenge To FTC Case

    A Maryland federal judge reversed course Tuesday and dismissed a preemptive lawsuit challenging one of the Federal Trade Commission's first online ticketing cases, concluding the ticket resellers can raise their constitutional arguments in addressing the FTC's allegations rather than pursuing a separate suit of their own.

  • June 09, 2026

    SEC Flags Improper Investment Adviser Conflict Disclosures

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission examiners Tuesday urged investment advisers to ensure they are properly disclosing economic conflicts of interest to clients, warning that exams staff have identified undisclosed conflicts and incomplete or misleading disclosures.

  • June 09, 2026

    BofA Says Fraud Findings Doom Calif. Benefit Card Classes

    Bank of America is asking that several classes of unemployment benefit cardholders be decertified in multidistrict litigation over its handling of California unemployment benefit cards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that new evidence of ongoing benefits fraud has made the case impossible to try as a class action.

Expert Analysis

  • AI-Proofing Class Action Notices From Pro Se Objection Surge

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    Class action practitioners should prepare for a likely surge in artificial intelligence-enabled pro se objections by implementing several practical strategies to navigate this shift, says Britany Wessan at Almeida Law Group.

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    Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

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    Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

  • What Jury Holdouts Can Teach Trial Lawyers About Strategy

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    Though a hung jury can be a disappointment, a psychological understanding of jury holdouts can help trial lawyers shape their damages arguments and understand leadership and group composition as a function of jury selection, says Clint Townson at Townson Litigation.

  • 4th Circ. Ruling Will Rewrite Class Action Litigation Strategies

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    The Fourth Circuit's recent decision in Oliver v. Navy Federal Credit Union is the first from a federal circuit court to hold that motions to strike are inappropriate vehicles for challenging class allegations at the pleading stage, invalidating a tactic that had been used for decades, says Jim Francis at Francis Mailman.

  • AI Investment Advice May Fail Investor Protection Rules

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    Based on an ongoing study of artificial intelligence platforms' investment advice given to retail investors, direct access to AI may not yield recommendations for typical households that are suitable under relevant securities rules, raising new and important issues in the regulation of financial markets, says Bruce Carlin at Rice University.

  • Food Kiosk Merger Offers FTC Insights For Dealmakers

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent approval of 365 Retail Markets' merger with fellow food-kiosk provider Cantaloupe balances structural divestiture with behavioral provisions, emphasizing the role of early engagement by the parties and the importance of tailored remedies in concentrated markets, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • 3 AI Adoption Mistakes GCs Should Avoid

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    The pressure in-house legal teams face to quickly adopt artificial intelligence tools, combined with budget constraints and the need to evaluate a crowded market of options, sets the stage for implementation mistakes that are often difficult to undo, says former 23andMe general counsel Guy Chayoun.

  • Series

    Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

  • AG Watch: Reconciling 2 Maryland Data Privacy Statutes

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    In-house counsel should map the interplay between the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act's strictly necessary standard to deliver a requested service, and the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act's exemption of consent-based pricing within loyalty programs, before the state attorney general begins enforcement on the latter in October, says Erek Barron at Mintz.

  • Nexstar Offers A Cautionary Tale On State-Level Deal Scrutiny

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    State-enforcement challenges to the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna merger remind legal practitioners that federal approval isn't always sufficient to deliver certainty on closing, integration and timetable assumptions, says Brett Story at Britehorn Securities.

  • How 'Bundling' Enforcement Is Parsing Efficiency, Access

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    Recent antitrust enforcement actions have taken a selective view of companies' bundling of products or services — challenging it when it shuts out rivals, but tolerating it when it creates efficient scale — making the real test now less about lower prices than about whether competition is being blocked, says attorney Alan Kusinitz.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Georgia Court Has Business On Its Mind

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    Thanks to recent legislation, the Georgia State-wide Business Court will soon offer business litigants greater access to the court than ever before, further enhancing the court's emphasis on efficiency, predictability and accessibility for sophisticated commercial disputes, says former GSBC judge Walt Davis at Jones Day.

  • 5 Takeaways From Justices' Subpoena Fight Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in First Choice v. Davenport fortifies a line of First Amendment associational privacy cases stretching back nearly 70 years, and ensures that organizations subject to government demands for donor information have a meaningful federal forum in which to defend their constitutional rights, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • How Treasury's Stablecoin Test Will Shape State Oversight

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    The Treasury Department's recently proposed principles for judging whether state stablecoin regimes are "substantially similar" to the federal framework signal that issuers should expect stricter benchmarking against the bank agencies' standards, limited state flexibility and heightened pressure to reassess compliance as rules take shape, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

  • Mass. Draft Regs Signal Nationwide Scrutiny Of Junk Fees

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    Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell's new draft regulations for assisted living facilities is only her latest move in the war on junk fees — and part of a national reordering of consumer protection enforcement in which states are aggressively and creatively asserting authority, says Steve Provazza at Arnall Golden.

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