1/18/2026 7:59:59 AM Texas AG Launches Investigation Over "Organic" Produce Claims By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he launched an investigation into whether grocery chains that spray organic...
1/10/2026 10:51:47 PM Menards Enters Into Multi-State Settlement Over Rebate and Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Right before the holidays, the big-box retailer Menards entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the Attorneys General of...
1/6/2026 2:27:04 AM NYC to Crack Down on "Junk Fees" and "Subscription Tricks and Traps" By Jeff Greenbaum New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two executive orders signaling that the City intends to make fighting “junk fees” and...
1/4/2026 8:05:13 PM Alaska AG Settles with Car Dealers Over Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Late last month, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox announced that the Alaska Department of Law entered into a settlement with Lithia...
12/28/2025 10:14:36 PM Some Tips for 2026 From the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group By Jeff Greenbaum As we head into 2026, here are some thoughts from the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group about some of the key issues that advertisers...
12/23/2025 11:48:19 PM The FTC Continues to Crack Down on Deceptive Subscriptions (Rulemaking or Not) By Jason Howell Kate Patton The FTC Continues to Crack Down on Deceptive Subscriptions (Rulemaking or Not) In October, our colleague Holly Melton read the tea leaves...
12/23/2025 1:54:44 PM New York State Expands Its Consumer Protection Law By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the "Fostering Affordability and Integrity Through Reasonable (FAIR)...
12/22/2025 8:30:29 PM FTC Sends Warning Letters To Companies: Don’t Mess With The Consumer Review Rule By Terri Seligman The FTC announced today that it sent letters to ten (unspecified) companies, warning them that it had “reason to believe” that each...
12/21/2025 6:40:05 PM SEC Issues Risk Alert On Use of Endorsements and Third-Party Ratings By Jeff Greenbaum The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Examinations recently published a Risk Alert to promote compliance with the...
12/19/2025 8:11:02 PM Oregon AG Settles With HelloFresh Over "Free" Offers By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, the Oregon Attorney General entered into a settlement with grocery delivery service HelloFresh, resolving allegations that...
12/16/2025 5:55:17 PM From Farm to Holiday Plate - USDA’s “Product of USA” Rule Raises the Stakes By Holly Melton For years, “Product of USA” has been a familiar origin claim on meat, poultry, and egg products, governed by USDA policy that focused...
12/16/2025 2:08:40 PM When is "Members-Only Pricing" Deceptive? By Jeff Greenbaum Members of Safeway's rewards program – Safeway for U – get members-only prices on various products offered for sale in the store. The...
12/8/2025 1:19:15 PM Court Allows Connecticut Attorney General's "Greenwashing" Case Against ExxonMobil to Continue By Jeff Greenbaum Several years ago, the Connecticut Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company had engaged in a decades-long “systematic...
12/1/2025 1:27:32 PM GALA Elects New Global Officers -- Dresden to Become New Global Chairman By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is very pleased to announce that it has elected its new global officers, effective January 1,...
11/17/2025 1:37:55 PM NC and Utah AGs Launch AI Task Force By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown announced that they had formed a bipartisan...
11/15/2025 11:30:55 PM If You're Buying Fireball, Are you Buying Whisky or a Malt Beverage? By Jeff Greenbaum Sazerac sells Fireball Cinnamon Whisky and Parrot Bay Rum. Sazerac also sells Fireball and Parrot Bay branded malt beverages in similar...