11/21/2025 8:43:45 PM FTC’s Melissa Holyoak Outlines Consumer Protection Focus at ANA Advertising Law Conference By Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp In her remarks at this year’s ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak of the Federal Trade Commission...
10/6/2025 2:50:08 PM FTC Commissioner Mark Meador Highlights Consumer Protection Priorities at NAD Conference By Len Gordon FTC Commissioner Mark Meador spoke at the National Advertising Division’s Annual Conference this week in Washington and provided some...
10/6/2025 2:38:51 PM Prescription Drug Advertising Under Scrutiny: New FDA and HHS Enforcement Actions By Len Gordon Shahin Rothermel Jay Prapaisilp Last month, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum, “Addressing Misleading Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug...
10/3/2025 1:52:53 PM An Amazonian-Sized Settlement: FTC Secures $2.5 Billion Against Amazon for Use of “Dark Patterns” In Prime Enrollment Scheme By Paavana Kumar Ashley Haripal In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Amazon alleging that the company engaged in a variety of “dark...
9/25/2025 1:00:31 PM FTC Lessons Learned: Chegg’s $7.5 Million ROSCA Settlement By Paavana Kumar The FTC is reinvigorating its focus on fraudulent practices in e-commerce — and subscription services are in the spotlight. On September...
8/26/2025 3:35:00 PM FTC’s Ever-Expanding Remedies Toolkit: GLBA and Impersonation Rule Applied to Debt Relief Scheme By Len Gordon Micah Wallen On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against a group...
7/10/2025 10:04:08 PM Eighth Circuit Vacates FTC’s Negative Option Rule Just Before It Takes Effect By Paavana Kumar Alexa Meera Singh Just days before the Federal Trade Commission’s Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Plans (the “Rule”) was set to...
7/7/2025 10:17:06 PM Cigarettes Are Cigarettes, No More Grey Areas By Sandra Ávila-González In light of growing concerns regarding electronic cigarettes, vapes, or, technically, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS),...
6/26/2025 4:36:51 PM Agoda Amends Platform Features Following CCCS Intervention By Denise Mirandah In response to concerns raised by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS), travel booking platform Agoda has revised...
6/18/2025 7:06:17 PM Marketing in Sensitive Sectors: The FTC Prescribes a $1.9 Million Lesson to Evoke Wellness By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon & Micah Wallen Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Andrew Ferguson has promised vigorous law enforcement under...
4/16/2025 3:59:06 PM Do You Know Who You’re Paying? FTC Lawsuit Against an Online Bill Pay Platform to Proceed By Len Gordon Ellis McKennie III On March 21, a federal judge in Washington state denied Doxo Inc.’s motion to dismiss a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission...
4/8/2025 2:48:41 PM Grainwashing: When Whole Grain Isn’t Whole at All By Aniko Keller Viktor Halupka In January 2024, the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) launched a competition investigation against Lidl Hungary following suspicions...
3/18/2025 9:29:03 PM New York Seeks to Beef up Consumer Protection Framework By Len Gordon Jonathan Pompan By Leonard L. Gordon, Jonathan L. Pompan, Ellis McKennie & Eden Caliendo New York attorney general Leticia James is the latest...
3/14/2025 9:22:24 PM Update on the FCC’s One-To-One Consent Rule By Craig Gilley In January the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) one-to-one consent rule, finding that the agency...
3/7/2025 5:40:05 PM Email Marketing By Len Gordon Join us as we spotlight select chapters of Venable’s popular Advertising Law Tool Kit, which helps marketing teams navigate their...
3/7/2025 5:38:16 PM Some Hints About and Clues to the FTC’s Consumer Protection Priorities By Len Gordon We’ve written previously about the Trump administration’s effort to increase his influence over independent agencies such as the FTC and...